How much did KELLER FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 73% of KELLER FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

museummadison

2019

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2020

—

2021

—

2022

youth

2023

—

2024

readingmuseummadison

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k34 grants · $159k
$10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$50k–250k1 grant · $200k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$702k

Total assets

Largest grants

BEAVER DAM AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$200,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN$10,000
WORLD ORPHAN FUND INC$8,000
RAWHIDE YOUTH SERVICES$8,000
ST AMBROSE ACADEMY$8,000
HORIZON HIGH SCHOOL$8,000
PAVE$8,000
CHURCH HEALTH SERVICES$8,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$8,000
ALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER$8,000
BEAVER DAM FAMILY CENTER ICE ARENA$8,000
YAHARA HOUSE$5,000
BEAVER DAM HOCKEY ASSOCIATION$5,000
NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER$5,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$5,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8% — the area typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 21% of KELLER FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in WI; read by stated purpose it is 64% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

KELLER FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUSTlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 30% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$388k · 40 repeat orgs$268k to everyone else

40 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$388k

$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+96%

+123%

Still filing today

48%

31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $248k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesPublic BenefitYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther

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

WORLD ORPHAN FUND INC
6× · 2019–2024 · $35k · revenue +766%
AL
ALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER
6× · 2019–2024 · $34k · revenue +196%
CH
CHURCH HEALTH SERVICES
6× · 2019–2024 · $34k · revenue +99%

Funded once

MS
MADISON STARLINGS YOUTH VOLLEYBALL
one grant, 2022 · $3k
BD
BEAVER DAM HIGH SCHOOL
one grant, 2022 · $3k
WI
WISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING DISABILITIESDYSLEXIA INC
one grant, 2022 · $3k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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

Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

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

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Habitat for Humanity of Waukesha County

Construction of homes and provide financial opportunity to low income families to own them.

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Milwaukee Development Corporation

Regional economic development

Community Improvement

Wisconsin Democracy Campaign Inc

Nonpartisan political watchdog group dedicated to clean government that advocates for a real democracy that allows the common good to prevail over narrow interests.

Health

Museum of Wisconsin Art Inc

See schedule o for statement. a vital cultural center, educational institution, an expanding network of ideas, the museum of wisconsin art collects and interprets american art through the lens of a single state.

Arts & Culture

Milwaukee Habitat for Humanity Inc

Milwaukee habitat for humanity puts god's love into action by bringing people together to build homes, communities, and hope.

Housing & Shelter

Waukesha County Historical Society & Museum Inc

The museum is an educational institution dedicated to preserving the history and culture of waukesha county.

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Wisconsin Manufacturing Extension

To provide targeted consulting services to small and medium manufacturers within our service territory in wisconsin.

Education

Dane County Parent Council Inc

To change the lives of children and families through education and supportive services.

Education

Wisconsin Family Action

Educates Wisconsin Citizens on issues that impact traditional families, Wisconsins most valuable natural resource.

Public Benefit

Midwest Environmental Advocates Inc

A nonprofit law center that combines the power of law with the resolve of communities facing environmental injustice to secure and protect the rights of all people to healthy water, land, and air.

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Inc Diocese of and the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/34

the rest of the field

13%

11,320/86,505

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.

06the grantee network

31 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

30/31

Grantees still filing

25/31

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$499,000Human Services$43,100Environment$36,000Religion$36,000Education$18,000Food & Nutrition$12,000Arts & Culture$11,680

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.

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.

Madison Community FoundationWI32.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Madison Community Foundation · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Trustage Foundation Inc · Sub-Zero Group Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Veridian Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust

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 organisation KELLER FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +61% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 391132693 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 4% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Keller Family Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Keller Family Charitable Trust through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

KELLER FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

31 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Keller Family Charitable Trust?

More from the funding graph

KELLER FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

31 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Keller Family Charitable Trust?

More from the funding graph