How much does Kalscheur Family Foundation give?

Kalscheur Family Foundation reported 58 grants totaling $404,700 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 95 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Kalscheur Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (44%), Human Services (10%), Education (9%).

Who are Kalscheur Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: St Francis Xavier Catholic Church ($1.5M), Christ Memorial Lutheran Church ($160k), St Maria Goretti Catholic Church ($122k).

Does Kalscheur Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Kalscheur Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Kalscheur Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alliant Energy Foundation Inc, United Way of Dane County Inc, Madison Community Foundation.

Where is Kalscheur Family Foundation based?

Kalscheur Family Foundation is based in DE.

Kalscheur Family Foundation

Kalscheur Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Kalscheur Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$405k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$40k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$1.9MHuman Services$454kEducation$400kHealth$335kYouth Development$209kPhilanthropy$179kRecreation & Sports$165kFood & Nutrition$149kOther$0

02FY2024 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k40 grants · $144k
$10k–50k18 grants · $261k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$16M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
YOUNG LIFE	$40,000
TOWN OF CROSS PLAINS	$20,000
THE INTERNATIONAL WALDENSTROMS MACROGLOBULINEMIA F	$20,000
SAVE OUR ALLIES	$20,000
ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC	$20,000
CHRIST MEMORIAL LUTHERAN CHURCH	$15,000
WISCONSIN 4-H FOUNDATION INC	$12,500
LOGAN JAMES HERR FOUNDATION INC	$12,000
WISCONSIN REGIONAL TRAINING CENTER INC	$11,500
BADGER HONOR FLIGHT INCORPORATED	$10,000
NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC	$10,000
ALZHEIMERS DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATI	$10,000
ATTIC ANGEL ASSOCIATION	$10,000
CHRIST MEMORIAL LUTHERAN CHURCH	$10,000
SS ANTHONY & PHILIP CONGREGATION HIGHLAND WI INC	$10,000

02The need

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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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $251k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.3M · 63 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

63 repeat relationships: 47 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.3M

$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%

+54%

Still filing today

65%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionEducationArts & CultureOther

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

YL
YOUNG LIFE
6× · 2019–2024 · $110k · revenue +38%
BH
BADGER HONOR FLIGHT INC
7× · 2017–2024 · $85k · revenue +52%
W4
WISCONSIN 4-H FOUNDATION INC
4× · 2020–2024 · $70k · revenue +294%

Funded once

SF
ST FRANCIS XAVIER CATHOLIC CHURCH
one grant, 2020 · $1.5M
MS
MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC
one grant, 2019 · $148k
EN
Ed Nebbins Foundation Inc
one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -94%

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.

Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit

Madison Professional Police Officers Association Inc

The madison professional police officers association represents law enforcement professionals who serve the city of madison, wisconsin, as either police officers, detectives, investigators, or sergeants.

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Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

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

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Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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Wisconsin Waterfowl Association Inc

The purpose of the association shall be to restore and conserve wisconsin's waterfowl and wetland resources; to educate state waterfowlers during their progression from natural resource consumer to steward; and to promote governmental…

Environment

World Dairy Expo Inc

World dairy expo is the premier forum for the global dairy community to learn, share, create commerce and showcase competition.

Education

Wisconsin National Guard Association Inc

To promote the relevance, readiness, and modernization of our national guard, improving the quality of life for our members, and supporting state and national policies to advance the security of the united states.

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Wisconsin Medical Society Inc

To improve the health of the people of wisconsin by supporting and strengthening physicians' ability to practice high quality patient care in a changing environment.

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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

Reedsburg Area Medical Center

Reedsburg area medical center, always there, going beyond the expected to provide compassionate, quality, and efficient health care.

Health

Downtown Madison Inc

Make downtown madison an economically strong, equitable, inclusive, and vibrant place to live, work, and visit.

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Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce Inc

Founded in 1911, our mission is to make wisconsin the most competitive state in the nation to do business. we are wisconsin's business voice.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of Pbs Wisconsin Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mazomanie Charitable Alliance. 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

78 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. 78 of the 160 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

76/78

Grantees still filing

56/78

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$3,256,692Human Services$356,150Health$222,400Youth Development$202,750Arts & Culture$115,700Education$114,121Public Benefit$113,000

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

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.

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.

Alliant Energy Foundation IncWI52.9× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Madison Community Foundation · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Sub-Zero Group Foundation Inc · First Business Charitable Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · Veridian Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · M3 Insurance Foundation Inc

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 Kalscheur Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kalscheur Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely 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.

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By state

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