Wisconsin · Private foundation
Kelben Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $4.9M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 417
- Grants FY2024
- 393
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 87%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $4,005,983
- Organizations funded a year
- 359 to 393
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 16
- Total assets, FY2024
- $63M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 87% of the organizations Kelben Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $515k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 411 | $4.9M | 88% |
| FY2023 | 393 | $5.6M | 87% |
| FY2022 | 359 | $7.5M | 87% |
| FY2021 | 377 | $2.6M | 89% |
| FY2020 | 370 | $4.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc | $7,545,604 | 3 | 8% |
| Cardinal Stritch University Inc | $2,262,000 | 3 | 4% |
| The Varsity Collective Charitable Fund Inc | $750,000 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Wisconsin Foundation | $370,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Milwaukee World Festival Inc | $300,000 | 2 | 2% |
| St Augustine Preparatory Academy Inc | $250,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Fiver Children's Foundation Inc | $237,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Mmac Community Support Foundation Inc | $150,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| City Forward Collective Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 4% |
Show all 71 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 1,648 recipients with no EIN on record ($12M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kelben Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Anon Charitable Trust · Baird Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Rite-Hite Foundation Inc · Youth Foundation Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Kelben Foundation Inc
- How much does Kelben Foundation Inc give?
- Kelben Foundation Inc reported 417 grants totaling $4,906,979 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 359 and 393 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Kelben Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (67%), Education (16%), Recreation & Sports (3%).
- Who are Kelben Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc ($7.5M), Cardinal Stritch University Inc ($2.3M), The Varsity Collective Charitable Fund Inc ($750k).
- Does Kelben Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 87% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Kelben Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Kelben Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc, United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc.
- Where is Kelben Foundation Inc based?
- Kelben Foundation Inc is based in WI.
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