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Kathleen Kolb Bonham Charitable Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2k
Granted FY2021
9
Grants FY2021
6
States reached
$200
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2021 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$200
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FEED 6 OUTREACH$200
MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA$200
MUSICIANS RELIEF FUND$200
PLACING PAWS ILLINOIS$200
URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER$200
MARKLUND PHILIP CENTER$200
ACADEMY OF ST BENEDICT THE AFRICAN$200
HUMANE SOCIETY OF MARATHON COUNTY$200
DRESS FOR SUCCESS AUSTIN$200
02The need
02

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 (FY21–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MUSICIANS RELIEF FUND: $200 → 17%DRESS FOR SUCCESS AUSTIN: $200 → 10%FEED 6 OUTREACH: $200 → 11%HUMANE SOCIETY OF MARATHON COUNTY: $200 → 11%URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER: $200 → 17%MARKLUND PHILIP CENTER: $200 → 7%PLACING PAWS ILLINOIS: $200 → 8%ACADEMY OF ST BENEDICT THE AFRICAN: $200 → 14%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.
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 field
03the grantee network

5 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. 5 of the 9 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
3/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ACADEMY OF ST BENEDICT THE AFRICAN: $200 · OtherACADEMY OF ST BENEDICT THE AFRICANMUSICIANS RELIEF FUND: $200 · OtherMUSICIANS RELIEF FUNDMARKLUND PHILIP CENTER: $200 · OtherMARKLUND PHILIP CENTERFEED 6 OUTREACH: $200 · OtherFEED 6 OUTREACHHUMANE SOCIETY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC: $200 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF MARATHO…PLACING PAWS OF ILLINOIS: $200 · AnimalsPLACING PAWS OF ILLINOISMEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA: $200 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHE…DRESS FOR SUCCESS AUSTIN: $200 · Community ImprovementDRESS FOR SU…URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC: $200 · EnvironmentURBAN ECOLOG…
Other$800Animals$400Food & Nutrition$200Community Improvement$200Environment$200

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLACING PAWS OF ILLINOIS: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS AUSTIN: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Kathleen Kolb Bonham Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kathleen Kolb Bonham Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    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 9 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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