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Kenosha Community Foundation

We lead, serve and collaborate with donors to create enduring philanthropy.

$2.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$1.4M
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$1.2MReligion$775kEnvironment$600kHuman Services$348kYouth Development$219kPublic Safety & Disaster$124kHealth$121kFood & Nutrition$113kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 30 grants below total $2,078,404, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,313,615 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $235,211 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $125k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $153k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $400k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.4M
$9,626
Median grant
4
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$1,400,000
GRANTS LESS THAN 5000$100,478
NEW LIFE LUTHERAN$100,000
HYSLOP FOUNDATION$100,000
SHORELAND LUTHERAN HS$100,000
Hope Council on Alcohol$27,450
The Kemper Center Foundation$25,000
KENOSHA COUNTY FOOD BANK$21,640
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF KENOSHA$17,600
Hospice Alliance Foundation$16,330
KENOSHA COMMUNITY SC$12,250
WISCONSIN LUTHERAN SEMINARY$12,000
SPONSORSHIPS LESS THAN 5000$10,405
CARTHAGE COLLEGE$10,000
Gateway Technical College$9,626
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $398k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BOYS TOWN: $15k → 12%CAL FARLEYS: $15k → 20%BOYS TOWN: $12k → 12%CAL FARLEY'S: $12k → 20%BOYS TOWN: $11k → 12%CAL FARLEYS: $11k → 20%BOYS TOWN: $9k → 12%CAL FARLEYS: $9k → 20%BOYS TOWN: $9k → 12%CAL FARLEYS: $9k → 20%CAL FARLEYS: $9k → 20%SHALOM CENTER: $15k → 10%SHALOM CENTER: $14k → 10%SHALOM CENTER: $8k → 10%SHALOM CENTER: $8k → 10%SHALOM CENTER: $7k → 10%SHALOM CENTER: $6k → 10%SHALOM CENTER: $6k → 10%THE SHARING CENTER: $10k → 10%THE SHARING CENTER: $9k → 10%THE SHARING CENTER: $9k → 10%THE SHARING CENTER: $7k → 10%WOMENS AND CHILDRENS HORIZONS: $82k → 10%KENOSHA ACHIEVEMENT CENTER: $19k → 10%KENOSHA ACHIEVMENT CENTER: $10k → 10%KENOSHA ACHIEVEMENT CENTER: $10k → 10%KENOSHA ACHIEVEMENT CENTER: $9k → 10%KENOSHA ACHIEVMENT CENTER: $9k → 10%KENOSHA ACHIEVMENT CENTER: $7k → 10%KENOSHA ACHIEVEMENT CENTER: $7k → 10%WOMEN & CHILDRENS HORIZONS: $7k → 10%KENOSHA ACHIEVMENT CENTER: $6k → 10%ELCA URBAN OUTREACH CENTER: $6k → 10%ELCA URBAN OUTREACH CENTER: $5k → 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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.3M · 38 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

38 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
20

Total granted

$4.3M
$305k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
0%

Still filing today

47%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsArts & CulturePhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • HF
    Hyslop Foundation Inc DBA Hawthorn Hollow
    7× · 2017–2025 · $700k · revenue +25%
  • RS
    RIGGS STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    3× · 2023–2025 · $426k · revenue +122%
  • CARTHAGE COLLEGE
    8× · 2018–2025 · $154k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • CE
    COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICE AGENCY 6
    one grant, 2023 · $133k · revenue -73%
  • KC
    KENOSHA CEMETERY ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2023 · $22k · revenue -12%
  • KA
    KENOSHA AREA FAMILY AND AGING SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2024 · $17k · revenue 0%
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
Kenosha Co Archaeological Society
Arts & Culture
2
Kenosha Community Foundation

We lead, serve and collaborate with donors to create enduring philanthropy.

Philanthropy
3
Kenosha Community Health Center Inc

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…

Health
4
Kenosha Christian Academy

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.

Education
5
Kenosha Education Association

None

Employment
6
Kenosha County Historical Society Inc Kenosha History Center

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.

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7
Kenosha Montessori School Inc

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…

Education
8
Kenosha Human Development Services Inc

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…

Human Services
9
Habitat for Humanity of Kenosha Inc

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…

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10
Kenosha Area Business Alliance Foundation Inc

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.

Community Improvement
11
Kenosha Band Boosters Inc

To provide financial support for annual band concerts and other school band activites.

Education
12
Kenosha Area Business Alliance Inc

Kenosha area business alliance is the lead business organization that drives economic development throughout kenosha county and supports and provides services to its members and the community, helping to ensure growth, a robust economy,…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Kenosha County Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

40 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. 40 of the 68 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/40
Grantees still filing
20/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $1,400,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSHORELAND LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL FEDERATION INC: $800,000 · OtherSHORELAND LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL FEDERATION INCHyslop Foundation Inc DBA Hawthorn Hollow: $700,000 · OtherHyslop Foundation Inc DBA Hawthorn HollowBETHANY LUTHERAN CHURCH: $600,000 · OtherBETHANY LUTHERAN CHURCHNEW LIFE LUTHERAN CHURCH: $200,000 · Other+39 more: $849,419 · Other+39 moreRIGGS STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $426,275 · Philanthropy+2 more: $14,275 · PhilanthropyCARTHAGE COLLEGE: $153,505 · EducationCOOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICE AGENCY 6: $133,275 · EducationKENOSHA LITERACY COUNCIL: $58,905 · EducationRACINE VOCATIONAL MINISTRY INC: $27,137 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PARKSIDE FOUNDATION INC: $16,750 · Education+2 more: $14,000 · EducationWOMEN AND CHILDREN'S HORIZONS INC: $88,400 · Human ServicesKENOSHA ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC: $78,305 · Human ServicesCAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH: $65,000 · Human ServicesSHALOM CENTER OF INTERFAITH NETWORK OF KENOSHA COUNTY INC: $64,219 · Human ServicesFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $56,000 · Human ServicesSHARING CENTER INC: $35,330 · Human Services+1 more: $11,111 · Human ServicesBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF KENOSHA INC: $131,306 · Recreation & SportsKENOSHA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $72,725 · Recreation & SportsKemper Center Inc: $53,000 · Recreation & SportsKENOSHA BLUE LINE HOCKEY CLUB INC: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsKENOSHA COUNTY FOOD BANK: $55,171 · Food & NutritionLeadership Institute: $39,000 · Public BenefitFaith Hope & Love Inc: $5,250 · Public Benefit
Other$4,549,419Philanthropy$440,550Education$403,572Human Services$398,365Recreation & Sports$267,031Food & Nutrition$55,171Public Benefit$44,250

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHyslop Foundation Inc DBA Hawthorn Hollow: $700,000 over 7y, 23% of budgetCARTHAGE COLLEGE: $153,505 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICE AGENCY 6: $133,275 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF KENOSHA INC: $131,306 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetWOMEN AND CHILDREN'S HORIZONS INC: $88,400 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetKENOSHA ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC: $78,305 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetKENOSHA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $72,725 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetCAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH: $65,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSHALOM CENTER OF INTERFAITH NETWORK OF KENOSHA COUNTY INC: $64,219 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetKENOSHA LITERACY COUNCIL: $58,905 over 6y, 9.2% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $56,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKENOSHA COUNTY FOOD BANK: $55,171 over 4y, 18% of budgetKemper Center Inc: $53,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetLeadership Institute: $39,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSHARING CENTER INC: $35,330 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetKenosha Creative Space Inc: $33,738 over 3y, 12% of budgetRACINE VOCATIONAL MINISTRY INC: $27,137 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetKenosha Community Sailing Center Inc: $22,250 over 2y, 18% of budgetKENOSHA CEMETERY ASSOCIATION: $21,642 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetKENOSHA AREA FAMILY AND AGING SERVICES INC: $17,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PARKSIDE FOUNDATION INC: $16,750 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetELCA OUTREACH CENTER: $11,111 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetKENOSHA BLUE LINE HOCKEY CLUB INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCREATE WISCONSIN INC: $9,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KENOSHA COUNTY INC: $8,275 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetROOT-PIKE WATERSHED INITIATIVE NETWORK INC: $8,140 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetKENOSHA COMMUNITY MEDIA INC: $8,100 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF WISCONSIN SOUTHEAST INC: $7,440 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKENOSHA PUBLIC MUSEUMS FOUNDATION INC: $7,250 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE PRAIRIE SCHOOL INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarquette University: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONGREGATIONS UNITED TO SERVE HUMANITY INC: $6,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetFIFTH HOUSE ENSEMBLE: $5,400 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFaith Hope & Love Inc: $5,250 over 1y, 3.4% 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.

  • 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 KENOSHA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH ↗
  • Who funds SHALOM CENTER OF INTERFAITH NETWORK OF KENOSHA COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds KENOSHA LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
  • Who funds KENOSHA COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds Kemper Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
  • Who funds SHARING CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Gods Kitchen of Kenosha INC ↗
  • Who funds Kenosha Creative Space Inc ↗
  • Who funds HOPE COUNCIL ON ALCOHOL & OTHER DRUG ABUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds RACINE VOCATIONAL MINISTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds Kenosha Community Sailing Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds KENOSHA CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds KENOSHA AREA FAMILY AND AGING SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PARKSIDE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE ALLIANCE FOUNDATION 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.

John & Ruth Kloss Cha…Green Bay Packers Fou…United Way of Kenosha…AbbVie Foundation1335 FoundationMary Frost Ashley Cha…Racine Community Foun…Baird Foundation IncBaxter International …Otto Bremer TrustTrustmark FoundationThe Richard M Schulze…
John & Ruth Kloss Charitable Tr UmaWI32.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Kenosha Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kenosha Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Kenosha Community Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Kenosha Community Foundation 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 68 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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