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John & Ruth Kloss Charitable Tr Uma

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$409k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
25
Grants FY2025
22
Organizations funded FY2024
14%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
22 to 28
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$8.5M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations John & Ruth Kloss Charitable Tr Uma funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationRecreation & SportsEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving24$404k38%
FY202422$418k14%
FY202327$411k48%
FY202226$438k35%
FY202127$426k30%
FY202028$421k61%
FY201727$420kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$827kHuman Services$536kCommunity Improvement$350kArts & Culture$270kPhilanthropy$199kHealth$166kReligion$138kFood & Nutrition$121kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 37 grantees
All grantees of John & Ruth Kloss Charitable Tr Uma by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Kenosha Innovation Neighborhood Inc$290,000325%
Women and Children's Horizons Inc$250,00064%
Kenosha Achievement Center Inc$97,50030%
Sharing Center Inc$96,00063%
Kenosha County Food Bank$95,000341%
United Way of Kenosha County Inc$85,00052%
University of Wisconsin Parkside Foundation Inc$75,00022%
City of Kenosha$60,0002n/a
Kenosha Area Family and Aging Services Inc$60,00031%
Carthage College$55,00030%
Kenosha Creative Space Inc$51,000513%
Kenosha Human Development Services Inc$45,00020%
Succeed Beyond High School$40,0001n/a
Kenosha Symphony Association Inc$35,000511%
Lemon Street Gallery$30,00066%
Hope Council on Alcohol & Other Drug Abuse Inc$30,00016%
Kenosha Public Library Foundation Inc$25,00023%
Kenosha Community Sailing Center Inc$25,0002n/a
Kindred Kitties Ltd$21,00072%
Boys and Girls Club of Kenosha Inc$20,00020%
Kenosha Area Business Alliance Inc$20,0001n/a
Shalom Center$20,0001n/a
Kenosha Young Men's Christian Association Inc$15,00010%
Kenosha Literacy Council$15,00027%
Urban League of Racine & Kenosha Inc$10,0001n/a
Kenosha County Division of Aging and Disability Services$10,0001n/a
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$10,00010%
Kenosha Fisheries Restoration Foundation$10,0001n/a
Kenosha Unified School District No 1$10,0001n/a
Pringle Nature Center Inc$7,00017%
Birds of a Feather Inc$5,000140%
Seno Krlt Conservancy Inc$5,00012%
Meals on Wheels Inc$5,00010%
Hyslop Foundation Inc DBA Hawthorn Hollow$5,0001n/a
Kenosha County Scout Leaders Rescue Squad Inc$5,000125%
Guardians of the Children$5,0001n/a
Twin Lakes Area Food Pantry Inc$4,000113%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 49 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

John & Ruth Kloss Charitable Tr Uma supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKenosha Innovation Neighborhood Inc: $290,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetWomen and Children's Horizons Inc: $250,000 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetKenosha Achievement Center Inc: $97,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSharing Center Inc: $96,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetKenosha County Food Bank: $95,000 over 3y, 41% of budgetUnited Way of Kenosha County Inc: $85,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetUniversity of Wisconsin Parkside Foundation Inc: $75,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetKenosha Area Family and Aging Services Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCarthage College: $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKenosha Creative Space Inc: $51,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetKenosha Human Development Services Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKenosha Symphony Association Inc: $35,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetLemon Street Gallery: $30,000 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetHope Council on Alcohol & Other Drug Abuse Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetKenosha Public Library Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetKindred Kitties Ltd: $21,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Kenosha Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKenosha Young Men's Christian Association Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKenosha Literacy Council: $15,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPringle Nature Center Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetBirds of a Feather Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetSeno Krlt Conservancy Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetMeals on Wheels Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKenosha County Scout Leaders Rescue Squad Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetTwin Lakes Area Food Pantry Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 13% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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.

Kenosha Community FoundationWI32.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kenosha Community Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · United Way of Kenosha County Inc · 1335 Foundation · Mary Frost Ashley Charitable Trust · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Trustmark Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Educators Credit Union

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.

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About John & Ruth Kloss Charitable Tr Uma

How much does John & Ruth Kloss Charitable Tr Uma give?
John & Ruth Kloss Charitable Tr Uma reported 25 grants totaling $408,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 28 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does John & Ruth Kloss Charitable Tr Uma fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (27%), Human Services (18%), Community Improvement (12%).
Who are John & Ruth Kloss Charitable Tr Uma's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Kenosha Innovation Neighborhood Inc ($290k), Women and Children's Horizons Inc ($250k), Kenosha Achievement Center Inc ($98k).
Does John & Ruth Kloss Charitable Tr Uma fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does John & Ruth Kloss Charitable Tr Uma accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as John & Ruth Kloss Charitable Tr Uma?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kenosha Community Foundation, AbbVie Foundation, United Way of Kenosha County Inc.
Where is John & Ruth Kloss Charitable Tr Uma based?
John & Ruth Kloss Charitable Tr Uma is based in WI.

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 87 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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