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Keller Family Charitable Trust at a glance

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Keller Family Charitable Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$374k
Granted FY2024still arriving
37
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$320kHuman Services$61kYouth Development$49kRecreation & Sports$49kInternational$43kHealth$39kEnvironment$37kHousing & Shelter$18kOther$0
02FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k35 grants · $164k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$476k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BEAVER DAM AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$200,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN$10,000
ALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER$8,000
ST AMBROSE ACADEMY$8,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$8,000
WORLD ORPHAN FUND INC$8,000
PAVE$8,000
CHURCH HEALTH SERVICES$8,000
RAWHIDE YOUTH SERVICES$8,000
BEAVER DAM FAMILY CENTER ICE ARENA$8,000
HORIZON HIGH SCHOOL$8,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$5,000
PORCHLIGHT INC$5,000
OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL$5,000
LUSSIER COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER$5,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WORLD ORPHAN FUND INC: $8k → 8%WORLD ORPHAN FUND INC: $7k → 8%WORLD ORPHAN FUND INC: $6k → 8%GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 10%WORLD ORPHAN FUND INC: $5k → 8%WORLD ORPHAN FUND INC: $5k → 8%GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 10%WORLD ORPHAN FUND INC: $4k → 8%GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 10%PAVE: $8k → 9%PAVE: $7k → 9%PAVE: $6k → 9%PAVE: $5k → 9%LUSSIER COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER: $5k → 10%PAVE: $4k → 9%LUSSIER COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER: $1k → 10%PEOPLE AGAINST A VIOLENT ENVIRONMENT: $1k → 9%PEOPLE AGAINST A VIOLENT ENVIRONMENT: $1k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $100 → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
MI
IN
CA
VA
TN
DC
TX
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 22% of Keller Family Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in WI; by stated purpose, 64%.

Keller Family Charitable Trustlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 30% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$379k · 37 repeat orgs$272k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
12

Total granted

$379k
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+62%

Still filing today

62%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $253k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CulturePublic BenefitEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 Inc
    6× · 2019–2024 · $35k · revenue +766%
  • CH
    CHURCH HEALTH SERVICES INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $34k · revenue +65%
  • AL
    ALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $34k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • BD
    BEAVER DAM HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • MS
    MADISON STARLINGS YOUTH VOLLEYBALL
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • WI
    WISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING DISABILITES DYSLEXIA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -9%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
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
2
Wisconsin Principles Inc

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…

Civil Rights
3
Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

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

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4
Midwest Dairy Association

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.

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5
Wisconsin Progress Inc

Wisconsin progress recruits, trains, elects, and develops progressive candidates and leaders at the local and state legislative levels.

Civil Rights
6
Museum of Wisconsin Art Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
7
Badger Advocates Inc

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…

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8
Wisconsin School Counselor Association Inc

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.

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9
Wisconsin Eschool Network Inc

To partner with wisconsin school districts to provide and share online teaching and learning resources

Education
10
Wisconsin Independent Christian School Inc

Valley christian school pursues educational excellence through christ centered programs to produce servant leaders.

Education
11
Pathways of Wisconsin Inc

Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.

Human Services
12
Wisconsin Waterfowl Association Inc

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…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; 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.
05the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 64 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/41
Grantees still filing
30/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BEAVER DAM AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $200,000 · OtherBEAVER DAM AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONBEAVER DAM FAMILY CENTER ICE ARENA: $34,000 · OtherBEAVER DAM FAMILY CENTER ICE ARENARAWHIDE INC: $34,000 · OtherRAWHIDE INC+38 more: $129,000 · Other+38 moreSAINT AMBROSE ACADEMY INC: $30,000 · EducationSAINT AMBROSE A…HORIZON HIGH SCHOOL OF MADISON INC: $30,000 · EducationHORIZON HIGH SC…MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 · EducationMILWAUKEE AREA …HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $7,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLE…PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationPRAGER UNIVERSI…EdChoice Inc: $4,000 · EducationWISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING DISABILITES DYSLEXIA INC: $3,000 · EducationWISCONSIN MASONIC FOUNDATION: $3,000 · EducationThe World Orphan Fund Inc: $35,000 · Human ServicesThe World Orp…PEOPLE AGAINST A VIOLENT ENVIRONMENT IN: $32,000 · Human ServicesPEOPLE AGAINS…LUSSIER COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesLUSSIER COMMU…IRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $4,000 · Human Services+1 more: $100 · Human ServicesALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER INC: $34,000 · EnvironmentROOTED WI INC: $2,000 · Environment+1 more: $1,000 · EnvironmentCHURCH HEALTH SERVICES INC: $34,000 · ReligionTO EVERY NATION: $2,000 · ReligionThe Gathering Source Inc: $12,000 · Food & NutritionCABLE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM INC: $4,000 · Arts & CultureMADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $3,680 · Arts & CultureArts for All Wisconsin Inc: $2,000 · Arts & CultureNORWEGIAN AMERICAN GENEALOGICAL CENTER: $2,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$397,000Education$90,000Human Services$77,100Environment$37,000Religion$36,000Food & Nutrition$12,000Arts & Culture$11,680

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe World Orphan Fund Inc: $35,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetCHURCH HEALTH SERVICES INC: $34,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER INC: $34,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetRAWHIDE INC: $34,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE AGAINST A VIOLENT ENVIRONMENT IN: $32,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetSAINT AMBROSE ACADEMY INC: $30,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHORIZON HIGH SCHOOL OF MADISON INC: $30,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetThe Gathering Source Inc: $12,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetBEAVER DAM HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetMILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNeighborhood House Community Center Inc: $7,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetOPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLUSSIER COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPORCHLIGHT INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCABLE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetIRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEdChoice Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $3,680 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING DISABILITES DYSLEXIA INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWISCONSIN MASONIC FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DANE COUNTY INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArts for All Wisconsin Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEXCEPTIONAL EQUESTRIANS COMPANY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBADGER INSTITUTE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBAYVIEW FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMADISON READING PROJECT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBEAVER DAM SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetROOTED WI INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORWEGIAN AMERICAN GENEALOGICAL CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLACIER'S EDGE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWisconsin Family Council: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE JOHN K MACIVER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAFE HARBOR CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON: $100 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.

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.

Madison Community Fou…Endres Manufacturing …Alliant Energy Founda…Madison Gas and Elect…Green Bay Packers Fou…Herbert H Kohl Charit…The Evjue Foundation …Trustage Foundation I…United Way of Dane Co…Sub-Zero Group Founda…Veridian Foundation I…Otto Bremer Trust
Madison Community FoundationWI37.7× affinity16 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 · 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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Keller Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Keller Family Charitable Trust. 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%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Keller Family Charitable Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Keller Family Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 64 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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