· Private foundation
Kevin and Connie Michels Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $361k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST FRANCIS DE SALES SEMINARY | $180,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC COMMUNITY | $80,000 |
| AGNESIAN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC | $50,500 |
| ST MARY'S SPRINGS ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| LOVE ONE ANOTHER CAMPAIGN | $30,000 |
| FANCONI CANCER FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| GREEN LAKE ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| FOND DU LAC SCHOOL DISTRICT | $10,000 |
| FOND DU LAC FOOD PANTRY INC | $5,000 |
| THE ARC OF FOND DU LAC | $5,000 |
| THELMA SADOFF CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $5,000 |
| ST KATHERINE DREXEL SHELTER | $5,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $4,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF FOND DU LAC | $3,000 |
| FOND DU LAC HUMANE SOCIETY | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.
35 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $206k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AHAGNESIAN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $67k · revenue +32%
- FCFANCONI CANCER FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2025 · $65k · revenue +22%
- TATHE ARC FOND DU LAC INC9× · 2017–2025 · $37k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- USUNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCEone grant, 2024 · $280k
- SOSISTERS OF ST FRANCIS OF ASSISIone grant, 2020 · $150k
- NCNFDL CHARTER SCHOOL INCone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
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.
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Habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope.
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Our mission is to provide a safe and nuturing environment for abandoned and mistreated dogs and cats until they can be placed in loving homes.
How this is measured
30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 53 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 CAMP GRAY INC ↗
- Who funds AGNESIAN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FANCONI CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THELMA SADOFF CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC FOND DU LAC INC ↗
- Who funds MAHALA'S HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds FOND DU LAC HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FONDY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds SOLUTIONS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FOND DU LAC AREA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF FOND DU LAC INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN LAKE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds COPS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF FOND DU LAC WI INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds FOND DU LAC COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FOND DU LAC AREA WOMEN'S FUND 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.
Open a dossier: Fond Du Lac Area Foundation · Michels Family Foundation · Mike Shannon Automotive Foundation Inc · Mid-States Aluminum Foundation Inc · Grande Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Patrick & Marysue Michels Family Foundation · Agnesian Healthcare Inc · Jf Ahern Co Foundation · Sadoff Family Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kevin and Connie Michels Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kevin and Connie Michels Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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