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Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc at a glance

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Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$14M
Granted FY2025still arriving
258
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$51MPhilanthropy$9.2MArts & Culture$5.0MYouth Development$4.4MHealth$3.5MPublic Benefit$3.2MHuman Services$2.7MHousing & Shelter$836kOther$0
02FY2025 · 258 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k163 grants · $643k
  • $10k–50k43 grants · $979k
  • $50k–250k39 grants · $3.6M
  • $250k+13 grants · $8.9M
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION$2,000,000
HERB KOHL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC$1,550,000
HERB KOHL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC$1,275,000
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION$800,000
HISTORIC HAYMARKET MILWAUKEE$750,000
DONORSCHOOSEORG$500,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$500,000
UWM FOUNDATION$300,000
CARMEN SCHOOLS OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY$250,000
FORWARD SCHOLARS$250,000
GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION$250,000
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE$250,000
GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION$250,000
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN$200,000
RIVERWORKS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$200,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF FOX VALLEY: $44k → 7%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB FOX VALLEY INC: $40k → 7%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB FOX VALLEY INC: $40k → 7%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB FOX VALLEY INC: $40k → 7%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF FOX VALLEY: $40k → 7%SHARP LITERACY INC: $10k → 17%SHARP LITERACY INC: $10k → 17%SHARP LITERACY INC: $10k → 17%SHARP LITERACY INC: $10k → 17%SILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $50k → 17%SILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $25k → 17%SILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $10k → 17%SILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $10k → 17%ST ANN CENTER FOR INTERGENERATIONAL CARE: $30k → 17%NEU LIFE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $10k → 17%PRISM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP: $10k → 17%PRISM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP: $10k → 17%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 17%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 17%PUBLIC ALLIES: $10k → 17%GATHERING OF SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN INC: $10k → 17%ROOTED AND RISING: $25k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE: $20k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE: $15k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC: $15k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC: $10k → 17%METCALFE PARK COMMUNITY BRIDGES: $10k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $100k → 17%BRUCE GUADALUPE COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $100k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $100k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $100k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $100k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $90k → 17%BRUCE GUADALUPE COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $90k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $88k → 17%JOURNEY HOUSE: $50k → 17%JOURNEY HOUSE: $49k → 17%JOURNEY HOUSE: $40k → 17%JOURNEY HOUSE: $40k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $40k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $30k → 17%MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE: $25k → 17%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN MILWAUKEE: $30k → 17%SECURE FUTURES: $15k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $110k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $100k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $100k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $75k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
WY
OH
PA
CT
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$74M · 771 repeat orgs$4.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

771 repeat relationships: 166 still active in FY2025, 605 since wound down; 64 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

771
465

Total granted

$74M
$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+14%

Still filing today

64%
34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2025 · $10M · revenue +29%
  • MP
    MILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +48% · 29% of their budget
  • D
    DONORSCHOOSEORG
    6× · 2019–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • MC
    MARVA COLLINS PREPARATORY SCHOOL OF WI
    one grant, 2019 · $350k
  • UM
    UW MADISON LAFOLLETTE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS
    one grant, 2019 · $300k
  • CH
    CARMEN HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2019 · $200k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
United Way of Wisconsin Inc

United way of wisconsin is dedicated to supporting and enriching a strong statewide united way network that maximizes the capacity of local united ways to address human needs, improve lives and create lasting positive change across…

Philanthropy
2
Wisconsin Progress Inc

Wisconsin progress recruits, trains, elects, and develops progressive candidates and leaders at the local and state legislative levels.

Civil Rights
3
One Wisconsin Now Inc

To advance progressive values, ideas and policies through research, policy, networking, advocacy and public education.

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4
Nonprofit Center of Milwaukee Inc

To promote interests and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector through strengthening organizational capacity, expanding volunteerism and encouraging collaboration.

—
5
Milwaukee Women Inc

Milwaukee women inc is an organization of executives determined to change the quality and composition of corporate boards to maximize the performance of public and private companies with a focus on women and women of color.

Education
6
Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.

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7
Milwaukee Water Commons Inc

Milwaukee water commons is helping catalyze milwaukee as a true model water city-a place where we all have a stake in the health of our waters and all share in their stewardship and benefits. we are advancing our community envisioned water…

Environment
8
Museum of Wisconsin Art Inc

The museum of wisconsin art celebrates the value, diversity, and uniqueness of the visual arts and artists of wisconsin. this is achieved by collecting, conserving, documenting, exhibiting, and promoting aesthetic understanding of the…

Arts & Culture
9
Wisconsin Youth Company Inc

Wisconsin youth company's mission is to engage youth in opportunities to encourage them to be their best selves.

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10
Pathways of Wisconsin Inc

Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.

Human Services
11
Milwaukee Community Service Corps Inc

The milwaukee community service corps (mcsc) is a non-profit vocational training organization providing employment, education and life skills to training youth adults and unemployed and underemployed of milwaukee, wisconsin.

Employment
12
Milwaukee Public Theatre Inc

Making the arts accessible to all

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Employ Milwaukee Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dar Boys & Girls Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

746 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 746 of the 1,314 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
218
Early backer (in before they grew)
711/746
Grantees still filing
487/746
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HERB KOHL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $21,640,610 · EducationHERB KOHL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $10,026,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATIONDONORSCHOOSEORG: $2,650,000 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEORG+20 more: $8,209,670 · Education+20 moreLAFOLLETTE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS: $2,300,000 · OtherLAFOLLETTE SCHOOL OF PUBLI…CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,700,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDA…Individual grant recipient: $785,000 · OtherMILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $775,000 · OtherMILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $731,000 · OtherTEACH FOR AMERICA - MILWAUKEE: $705,000 · OtherCITY YEAR INC: $702,500 · Other+102 more: $11,142,350 · Other+102 moreMILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $3,028,000 · PhilanthropyMILWAUKEE PU…GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC: $2,450,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER MILW…MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $2,092,500 · PhilanthropyMILWAUKEE JE…UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $445,000 · Philanthropy+14 more: $843,000 · Philanthropy+14 moreMILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $2,005,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC: $820,000 · Arts & CultureHistoric Haymarket Milwaukee Inc: $750,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE FILM INC: $276,000 · Arts & Culture+11 more: $653,500 · Arts & CultureBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC: $1,060,200 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF OSHKOSH INC: $234,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC: $177,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER LA CROSS: $158,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE WAUSAU AREA INC: $142,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE BAY AND LAKES REGION INC: $134,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PORTAGE: $132,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JANESVILLE INC: $132,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE TRI-COUNTY AREA: $128,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC: $89,500 · Youth Development+3 more: $129,500 · Youth DevelopmentUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $838,000 · Human ServicesSOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC: $385,000 · Human ServicesBOYS & GIRLS CLUB FOX VALLEY INC: $209,000 · Human ServicesJOURNEY HOUSE INC: $191,000 · Human ServicesSILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $95,000 · Human Services+10 more: $461,000 · Human ServicesProgressive Community Health Centers Inc: $155,000 · HealthBREAD OF HEALING INC: $155,000 · HealthOUTREACH COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC: $125,000 · HealthPENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $85,000 · HealthMILWAUKEE HEALTH SERVICES INC: $50,000 · HealthMental Health America of Wisconsin Inc: $40,000 · HealthMercy Dental Missions Inc: $30,000 · Health
Education$42,526,280Other$18,840,850Philanthropy$8,858,500Arts & Culture$4,504,500Youth Development$2,517,700Human Services$2,179,000Health$640,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHERB KOHL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $21,640,610 over 7y, 96% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $10,026,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $3,028,000 over 7y, 29% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $2,650,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC: $2,450,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetMILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $2,092,500 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $2,005,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetTHE UWM FOUNDATION INC: $1,265,670 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC: $1,060,200 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $1,009,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MILWAUKEE SCIENCE EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC: $877,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $838,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC: $820,000 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetHistoric Haymarket Milwaukee Inc: $750,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCARMEN HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC: $745,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetDR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INC: $743,000 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetMILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $731,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetMCPREPARATORY SCHOOL OF WISCONSIN INC: $725,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $702,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSEEDS OF HEALTH INC: $521,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetFORWARD SCHOLARS LLC: $500,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetMilwaukee Excellence Inc: $492,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetHMONG AMERICAN PEACE ACADEMY LTD: $465,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC: $450,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $445,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC: $385,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetMILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $380,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetYESHIVA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL - MILWAUKEE INC: $334,500 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetURBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC: $290,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetNEXT DOOR FOUNDATION INC: $285,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMILWAUKEE FILM INC: $276,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetSIXTEENTH STREET COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC: $266,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $263,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $250,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF OSHKOSH INC: $234,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $228,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetMILWAUKEE JEWISH DAY SCHOOL INC: $221,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetGreater Milwaukee Committee for Community Development: $211,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetHUNGER TASK FORCE INC: $210,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB FOX VALLEY INC: $209,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetRIVERWORKS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $201,000 over 5y, 8.5% of budgetMILWAUKEE PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $197,500 over 5y, 49% of budgetJOURNEY HOUSE INC: $191,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC: $177,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetWE WILL ALL RISE: $175,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetTHE LITERACY LAB: $165,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER LA CROSS: $158,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetProgressive Community Health Centers Inc: $155,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds HERB KOHL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
  • Who funds GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UWM FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MILWAUKEE SCIENCE EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Inc ↗
  • Who funds CARMEN HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
  • Who funds DR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MCPREPARATORY SCHOOL OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
  • Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
  • Who funds SEEDS OF HEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds FORWARD SCHOLARS LLC ↗
  • Who funds Milwaukee Excellence Inc ↗
  • Who funds HMONG AMERICAN PEACE ACADEMY LTD ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL - MILWAUKEE INC ↗
  • Who funds URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds NEXT DOOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE FILM INC ↗
  • Who funds SIXTEENTH STREET COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

United Way of Greater…Greater Milwaukee Fou…Green Bay Packers Fou…Ralph Evinrude Founda…Evan & Marion Helfaer…Youth Foundation IncAnon Charitable TrustJoseph and Vera Zilbe…Gardner FoundationMilwaukee Jewish Fede…Richard and Ethel Her…Waukesha County Commu…
United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County IncWI204.6× affinity190 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Youth Foundation Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Gardner Foundation · Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc · Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Inc · Waukesha County Community Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Reach Out and Read Inc: 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
99report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc?

Find your warmest path to Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 1314 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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