· Private foundation
Kelben Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k410 grants · $729k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $72k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
- $250k+1 grant · $4.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY | $4,005,983 |
| CHILDREN'S WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,285 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,500 |
| OZAUKEE FAMILY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| ALL-IN MILWAUKEE | $10,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $9,000 |
| WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY | $9,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,892 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION | $8,000 |
| UNICEF USA | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,864 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,208 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.
85 repeat relationships: 50 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 361 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.7M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MWMILWAUKEE WORLD FESTIVAL INC2× · 2020–2022 · $300k · revenue ×12
ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC2× · 2022–2023 · $250k · revenue +190%- FCFIVER CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC3× · 2020–2023 · $237k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY CHARITIESone grant, 2022 · $5.3M
- TVTHE VARSITY COLLECTIVE CHARITABLE FUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $750k · revenue +118%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $370k · revenue +29%
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.
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.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
Milwaukee women inc is an organization of executives determined to change the quality and composition of corporate boards to maximize the performance of public and private companies with a focus on women and women of color.
Engage our community in supporting milwaukee county parks to collectively steward a thriving park system.
Support research and innovation at the university of wisconsin - milwaukee by providing reserach funding, entrepreneurship support, and by engaging in corporate partnering activities to that end.
To reach a new generation of radio listeners on air, online and in the community with a compelling selection of music and public affairs programming. the corporation celebrates milwaukee music, arts, heritage, and culture by supporting and…
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…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
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.
To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…
The mission of the uwm foundation, inc. is to support the educational, literary, and scientific endeavors of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee by receiving, managing, and distributing gifts to benefit the university's students,…
To partner with the public and private sectors to develop and hold real estate for the benefit of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee. the uwm real estate foundation, inc. holdings may include any properties that advance the mission of…
We inspire people to experience life at its fullest by encouraging ownership of health, fostering independence, and serving the whole person; and do so with an unwavering commitment as stewards of medicaid funding.
How this is measured
67 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 67 of the 1,722 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL STRITCH UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE VARSITY COLLECTIVE CHARITABLE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE WORLD FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds FIVER CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MMAC COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Inc ↗
- Who funds CITY FORWARD COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds ALL-IN MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT KINDRED INC ↗
- Who funds OZAUKEE FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS HIGH INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE FILM INC ↗
- Who funds REDgen Inc ↗
- Who funds EMPLOY MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds STARS AND STRIPES HONOR FLIGHT INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kelben Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kelben Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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