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James J and Rosanne C Keller Family Foundation 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.

$24k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$507kReligion$396kRecreation & Sports$93kPhilanthropy$51kHousing & Shelter$25kInternational$22kEnvironment$17kHealth$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
$500
Median grant
2
States reached
$7.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
APPLETON AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALL INC$18,000
OZAUKEE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$4,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$500
KAUKAUNA QUARTERBACK CLUB INC$500
SOUTHERN DOOR HIGH SCHOOL$500
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 86% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ST MARY'S UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $1k → 14%WORLDTEAM USA INC: $10k → 6%CRU MINISTRIES: $1k → 13%LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $2k → 5%JDRF - NORTHEAST WISCONSIN CHAPTER: $2k → 6%OZAUKEE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $5k → 6%APPLETON AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALL CLUB INC: $15k → 7%LACONIA HIGH SCHOOL: $10k → 9%WINNECONNE COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $15k → 11%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $1k → 21%IDATAROD TRAIL COMMITTEE: $25k → 10%WORLDTEAM USA INC: $5k → 6%OZAUKEE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $5k → 6%APPLETON COMMUNITY EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH: $5k → 7%LACONIA HIGH SCHOOL: $7k → 9%WINNECONNE HIGH SCHOOL: $8k → 11%OZAUKEE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $4k → 6%FUTURE ANGLER FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%LACONIA HIGH SCHOOL: $5k → 9%WINNECONNE COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $7k → 11%SHADOWS ON THE WOLF INC: $9k → 7%WINNECONNE YOUTH DIAMOND CLUB INC: $3k → 11%SHADOWS ON THE WOLF INC: $9k → 7%WINNECONNE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (A COMPONENT OF OSHKOSH AREA COMM FDN): $3k → 11%NEW DIRECTIONS LEARNING COMMUNITY: $10k → 7%WINNECONNE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (A COMPONENT OF OSHKOSH AREA COMM FDN): $3k → 11%NEW DIRECTIONS LEARNING COMMUNITY: $4k → 7%UW OSHKOSH FOUNDATION: $190k → 11%VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $85k → 11%VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $35k → 11%VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $25k → 11%VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $25k → 11%OSHKOSH FOOTBALL FACTORY INC: $15k → 11%VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $10k → 11%UW OSHKOSH FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%LEARN 2 FISH WITH US INC: $5k → 11%VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $5k → 11%OSHKOSH AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $24k → 11%OSHKOSH AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $6k → 11%CHERITH INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 11%OSHKOSH AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%OSHKOSH AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%OSHKOSH AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%OSHKOSH AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%OSHKOSH AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%OSHKOSH AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%WILDEWOOD BAPTIST CHURCH: $3k → 11%BUTTE DES MORTS HISTORICAL & PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $2k → 11%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

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MN
WI
OH
PA
TN
NC
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$983k · 14 repeat orgs$87k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
23

Total granted

$983k
$86k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+84%
+134%

Still filing today

50%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

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EducationRecreation & SportsHealthEnvironmentInternationalReligionOther
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

  • VC
    VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC THOMPSON
    6× · 2017–2022 · $185k · revenue +233%
  • AA
    APPLETON AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALL CLUB INC
    4× · 2018–2025 · $59k · revenue +84%
  • SO
    SHADOWS ON THE WOLF INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $17k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • OF
    OSHKOSH FOOTBALL FACTORY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • WH
    WINNECONNE HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $8k
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
Tomorrows Anglers Inc
Youth Development
2
Wisconsin Christian Campus Ministries Inc

Our mission is to advance the gospel of jesus christ through the next generation by engaging the lost and discipling believers on college campuses.

Religion
3
Portersville Christian School

The mission of portersville christian school is to glorify god by preparing students to serve christ and instilling high standards spiritually, academically, socially, and physically. the school provides a high-quality academic program, a…

Education
4
Marquette University

As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.

Education
5
William Jessup University

In partnership with the church, the purpose of william jessup university is to educate transformational leaders for the glory of god.

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6
Wisconsin Lutheran College Inc

Wisconsin lutheran college is a private, four-year liberal arts college.

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7
Three Oaks Christian School Corporation

The mission of three oaks christian school is to partner with parents to educate and disciple children consistent with biblical worldview, teaching them to be lifelong learners able to discern, articulate, and defend truth in a compelling,…

Education
8
Mark Osiecki's Casting for Kids Inc

To help children who are fighting cancer at the nationally recognized university of wisconsin american family children's hospital/carbone cancer center.

Recreation & Sports
9
John Carroll University

As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…

Education
10
Walnut Grove Christian School

We are a k-12 christian school founded under the following (4) pillars: academics: we provide an amazing accredited academic program utilizing 100% certified teachers. schedule: we provide our students and their families an opportunity on…

Education
11
The Wausaukee Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Old Timers Athletic Club Inc

This club was organized to promote a spirit of cooperation amoung the members, with particular interest on promotion of organized youth sporting activities

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shadows On the Wolf Inc; the most unlike its peers is St Marys University of Minnesota. 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

15 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. 15 of the 40 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CALVARY BIBLE CHURCH: $387,004 · OtherCALVARY BIBLE CHURCHCALVARY BIBLE CHURCH OF NEENAH WISCONSIN INC: $40,000 · OtherCALVARY BIBLE CHURCH OF NEENAH WISCONSIN INCIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherLACONIA HIGH SCHOOL: $22,000 · OtherWINNECONNE COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $21,975 · Other+21 more: $90,400 · Other+21 moreUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH FOUNDATION INC: $195,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH FOUNDATI…VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC THOMPSON: $185,000 · EducationVALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC THOMPSONOZAUKEE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $14,000 · Education+2 more: $1,500 · EducationAPPLETON AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALL CLUB INC: $59,015 · Recreation & SportsWINNECONNE YOUTH DIAMOND CLUB INC: $3,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $500 · Recreation & SportsOSHKOSH AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION CORPORATION: $49,500 · PhilanthropySHADOWS ON THE WOLF INC: $17,000 · EnvironmentCHERITH INTERNATIONAL INC: $5,000 · InternationalBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 · HealthSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $1,503 · Religion
Other$586,379Education$395,500Recreation & Sports$62,515Philanthropy$49,500Environment$17,000International$5,000Health$2,500Religion$1,503

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH FOUNDATION INC: $195,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetVALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC THOMPSON: $185,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetOSHKOSH AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION CORPORATION: $49,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetSHADOWS ON THE WOLF INC: $17,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetOZAUKEE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $14,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFUTURE ANGLER FOUNDATION INC: $5,500 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetCHERITH INTERNATIONAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetWINNECONNE YOUTH DIAMOND CLUB INC: $3,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $1,503 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKAUKAUNA QUARTERBACK CLUB INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% 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 UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC THOMPSON ↗
  • Who funds APPLETON AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALL CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds OSHKOSH AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds SHADOWS ON THE WOLF INC ↗
  • Who funds OZAUKEE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds FUTURE ANGLER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHERITH INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds WINNECONNE YOUTH DIAMOND CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds ST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds AUBREY ROSE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KAUKAUNA QUARTERBACK CLUB 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.

J J Keller Foundation IncWI19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: J J Keller Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · Oshkosh Area Community Foundation Corporation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 James J and Rosanne C Keller Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James J and Rosanne C Keller Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to James J and Rosanne C Keller Family Foundation 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 40 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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