· Private foundation
John & Ruth Kloss Charitable Tr Uma
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $255k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KENOSHA COUNTY FOOD BANK | $50,000 |
| KENOSHA ACHIEVEMENT CENTER | $50,000 |
| SUCCEED BEYOND HIGH SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| GATEWAY TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $40,000 |
| AMERICAN LEGION KENOSHA POST 21 | $35,000 |
| OPEN WINGS ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| SHALOM CENTER | $20,000 |
| KENOSHA HUMAN DEVELOPMENT SERVICES | $20,000 |
| KENOSHA AREA BUSINESS ALLIANCE | $20,000 |
| KENOSHA AREA FAMILY AND AGING SERVICES I | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| CITY OF KENOSHA | $10,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| WWBIC | $10,000 |
| SISTERS NETWORK SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN | $5,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $508k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
38 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $146k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- WAWOMEN AND CHILDREN'S HORIZONS INC6× · 2017–2024 · $250k · revenue +0%
- SCSHARING CENTER INC6× · 2017–2024 · $96k · revenue +551%
- KCKENOSHA COUNTY FOOD BANK3× · 2021–2025 · $95k · revenue +41% · 41% of their budget
Funded once
- HCHOPE COUNCIL ON ALCOHOL & OTHER DRUG ABUSE INCone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue -1%
- UWUNITED WAY OF KENOSHAone grant, 2020 · $30k
- KYKENOSHA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +37%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To collect and preserve artifacts, records, and information vital to understanding the history of the County's social, cultural, ethic and industrial heritage since its settlement.
Kenosha christmas charities, inc. is committed to the mission of serving disadvantaged children of kenosha county by purchasing toys, food and clothing for distribution through a consortium of social agencies (holiday house) in the…
Kenosha community health center, inc.'s purpose is to provide primary care and referral health services to disadvantaged and underserved populations and promote and ensure that basic primary health services are accessible to uninsured and…
Kenosha area business alliance foundation, inc. develops education initiatives with local kenosha schools to increase graduation rates, improve the overall quality of education, and foster the best educational system in the state.
Nurture local agriculture, craftsmen & artists
Kenosha montessori school strives to provide an atmosphere that encourages learning for life, a peaceful community, independence, curiosity, & creativy following the montessori method. kms serves the communities of southeast wisconsin and…
To provide a means for individuals, organizations andother program service accomplishments: provided training in video production and facilitated use of video production equipment to the general public through our facility in the southwest…
Aid & services for senior citizens
The foundation is organized for the charitable purpose of advancing the long-range goals, objectives, and priorities of the boys and girls club of kenosha, inc.
To witness and implement the gospel of jesus christ in kenosha county, wisconsin, and throughout the united states and the world by working with economically disadvantaged people to help them create a better human habitat in which to live…
Our mission is to house care for and find loving homes for animals orphaned abused and neglected in Kenosha County. Our purpose is to improve the care and treatment of animals in our community. We work to find homes for thousands of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Kenosha County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Shalom Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 21% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 87 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds KENOSHA INNOVATION NEIGHBORHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN AND CHILDREN'S HORIZONS INC ↗
- Who funds KENOSHA ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SHARING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KENOSHA COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds KENOSHA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KENOSHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PARKSIDE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KENOSHA AREA FAMILY AND AGING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CARTHAGE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Kenosha Creative Space Inc ↗
- Who funds KENOSHA HUMAN DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Kenosha Symphony Association Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE COUNCIL ON ALCOHOL & OTHER DRUG ABUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LEMON STREET GALLERY ↗
- Who funds KENOSHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Kenosha Community Sailing Center Inc ↗
- Who funds KINDRED KITTIES LTD ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF KENOSHA INC ↗
- Who funds KENOSHA AREA BUSINESS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Shalom Center ↗
- Who funds KENOSHA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds KENOSHA LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization John & Ruth Kloss Charitable Tr Uma funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.