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Kenosha Community Foundation
We lead, serve and collaborate with donors to create enduring philanthropy.
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.
The 28 grants below total $804,815 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $960,636 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $155,821 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $284k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $473k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRANTS LESS THAN 5000 | $173,281 |
| SHORELAND LUTHERAN HS | $100,000 |
| NEW LIFE LUTHERAN | $100,000 |
| HYSLOP FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF KENOSHA | $25,315 |
| GODS KITCHEN OF KENOSHA | $25,186 |
| KENOSHA YMCA | $22,885 |
| BROOKSIDE CARE CENTER | $21,081 |
| WISCONSIN LUTHERAN SEMINARY | $20,000 |
| KENOSHA ACHIEVEMENT CENTER | $19,250 |
| CARTHAGE COLLEGE | $17,200 |
| KAFASI | $17,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $17,000 |
| CAL FARLEYS | $15,000 |
| BOYS TOWN | $15,000 |
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, $373k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 28% 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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 9 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $167k 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
- HFHyslop Foundation Inc DBA Hawthorn Hollow6× · 2017–2024 · $600k · revenue +25%
- RSRIGGS STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND2× · 2023–2024 · $326k · revenue +122%
CARTHAGE COLLEGE7× · 2018–2024 · $144k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- CECOOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICE AGENCY 6one grant, 2023 · $133k · revenue -73%
- KCKemper Center Incone grant, 2017 · $28k · revenue -41%
- KCKENOSHA CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $22k · revenue +68%
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 lead, serve and collaborate with donors to create enduring philanthropy.
Kenosha community health center, inc.'s purpose is to provide primary care and referral health services to disadvantaged and underserved populations and promote and ensure that basic primary health services are accessible to uninsured and…
Kenosha christmas charities, inc. is committed to the mission of serving disadvantaged children of kenosha county by purchasing toys, food and clothing for distribution through a consortium of social agencies (holiday house) in the…
Kenosha christian academy is a private school that will provide a classical christian education to the children of kenosha's central city neighborhoods, in hopes of forming students, families, and staff who love god and neighbor.
Kenosha montessori school strives to provide an atmosphere that encourages learning for life, a peaceful community, independence, curiosity, & creativy following the montessori method. kms serves the communities of southeast wisconsin and…
To provide public, individual, and group care for anyone living in the greater kenosha area. care shall be in the least restrictive manner and will include group type treatment facilities, as well as other services to help people in need…
To collect and preserve artifacts, records, and information vital to understanding the history of the County's social, cultural, ethic and industrial heritage since its settlement.
Kenosha area business alliance foundation, inc. develops education initiatives with local kenosha schools to increase graduation rates, improve the overall quality of education, and foster the best educational system in the state.
None
To witness and implement the gospel of jesus christ in kenosha county, wisconsin, and throughout the united states and the world by working with economically disadvantaged people to help them create a better human habitat in which to live…
The purpose of neighborhood housing services of southeast wisconsin, inc. is to renew pride, restore confidence,promote reinvestment, and revitalize the nhs neighborhoods through the efforts of local residents acting in concert with…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kenosha Area Family and Aging Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Riggs Student Scholarship Fund. 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 44 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 12% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 59 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 Hyslop Foundation Inc DBA Hawthorn Hollow ↗
- Who funds RIGGS STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds CARTHAGE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICE AGENCY 6 ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF KENOSHA INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN AND CHILDREN'S HORIZONS INC ↗
- Who funds KENOSHA ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SHALOM CENTER OF INTERFAITH NETWORK OF KENOSHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds KENOSHA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH ↗
- Who funds KENOSHA LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds SHARING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Gods Kitchen of Kenosha INC ↗
- Who funds Kenosha Creative Space Inc ↗
- Who funds KENOSHA COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds Kemper Center Inc ↗
- Who funds KENOSHA CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds RACINE VOCATIONAL MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds KENOSHA AREA FAMILY AND AGING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PARKSIDE 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: John & Ruth Kloss Charitable Tr Uma · Green Bay Packers Foundation · United Way of Kenosha County Inc · AbbVie Foundation · 1335 Foundation · Mary Frost Ashley Charitable Trust · Racine Community Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Baxter International Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Trustmark Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation
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 Kenosha Community Foundation 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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