· Private foundation
Keller Family Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k35 grants · $164k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BEAVER DAM AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN | $10,000 |
| ST AMBROSE ACADEMY | $8,000 |
| ALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER | $8,000 |
| CHURCH HEALTH SERVICES | $8,000 |
| BEAVER DAM FAMILY CENTER ICE ARENA | $8,000 |
| PAVE | $8,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $8,000 |
| HORIZON HIGH SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| WORLD ORPHAN FUND INC | $8,000 |
| RAWHIDE YOUTH SERVICES | $8,000 |
| LUSSIER COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER | $5,000 |
| THE GATHERING SOURCE | $5,000 |
| BEAVER DAM HOCKEY ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $77k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — 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 22% 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.
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.
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.
37 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 13 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, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $253k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
The World Orphan Fund Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $35k · revenue +766%- RIRAWHIDE INC6× · 2019–2024 · $34k · revenue +41%
- CHCHURCH HEALTH SERVICES INC6× · 2019–2024 · $34k · revenue +99%
Funded once
- MSMADISON STARLINGS YOUTH VOLLEYBALLone grant, 2022 · $3k
- WIWISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING DISABILITES DYSLEXIA INCone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -9%
- BDBEAVER DAM HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
Wisconsin principles (wp) is a 501(c)(4) non-profit organization dedicated to preserving conservative values in the state of wisconsin. committed to fiscal conservatism, educational choice, and individual liberty, we strive to empower…
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
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.
Wisconsin progress recruits, trains, elects, and develops progressive candidates and leaders at the local and state legislative levels.
The museum of wisconsin art celebrates the value, diversity, and uniqueness of the visual arts and artists of wisconsin. this is achieved by collecting, conserving, documenting, exhibiting, and promoting aesthetic understanding of the…
Develop, amplify, and advocate for policy ideas that would strengthen the effectiveness, efficiency, and accountability of uw-madison and enhance its economic impact on the state. creating lobbying and grassroots public relations efforts…
Our vision is for wisconsin to be the model for excellence in equitable school counseling practice, exemplified by the advocacy, leadership, and expertise of the members of the wsca.
To partner with wisconsin school districts to provide and share online teaching and learning resources
Valley christian school pursues educational excellence through christ centered programs to produce servant leaders.
Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is To Every Nation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 64 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds The World Orphan Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds RAWHIDE INC ↗
- Who funds CHURCH HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE AGAINST A VIOLENT ENVIRONMENT IN ↗
- Who funds SAINT AMBROSE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZON HIGH SCHOOL OF MADISON INC ↗
- Who funds The Gathering Source Inc ↗
- Who funds BEAVER DAM HOCKEY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood House Community Center Inc ↗
- Who funds LUSSIER COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PORCHLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CABLE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds EdChoice Inc ↗
- Who funds MADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING DISABILITES DYSLEXIA INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN MASONIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Arts for All Wisconsin Inc ↗
- Who funds EXCEPTIONAL EQUESTRIANS COMPANY ↗
- Who funds BAYVIEW FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Madison Community Foundation · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · Trustage Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Sub-Zero Group Foundation 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 organization 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.
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 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.
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