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Kohl 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JAMES LUTHERAN SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| BEACON OF HOPE | $15,000 |
| COLLECTIVUS CHURCHPRAY LOVE UNITE | $10,000 |
| FOX TUSCON THEATRE FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| ELKHART LAKE SCHOOL DISTRICT | $5,000 |
| ELKHART LAKE FIRST RESPONDERS | $5,000 |
| LOCAL CHURCH FORSYTH | $5,000 |
| TUCSON COLD WET NOSES | $3,800 |
| ARIZONA ARTS LIVE | $3,000 |
| ELKHART LAKE BOY SCOUTS | $2,000 |
| CASA MARIA | $800 |
| CHILDRENS MUSEUM | $600 |
| FRIENDS OF ELKHART LAKE LIBRARY | $600 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $600 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $600 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 61% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +103% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TBTWO BY TWO RESCUE LEAGUE4× · 2017–2021 · $37k · revenue +70%
- FTFOX TUCSON THEATRE FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2023 · $19k · revenue +81%
- PLPRAY LOVE UNITE MINISTRIES INC2× · 2019–2020 · $18k · revenue +106%
Funded once
- SJST JAMES LUHERAN SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $20k
- AWAUBURN WESLEY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $15k
- ELELKAHART LAKE SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2017 · $12k
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.
To compassionately serve pets and the people who love them.
We are dedicated to building a community responsible for pet stewardship and humane treatment of animals.
One love arizona's mission is to spark brighter futures for people and pets through life-saving programs.
On average, we find homes for over 100 cats each year through our adoption program. In 2024 we fixed 125 cats with our TNR efforts and were able to provide a dozen microchips to owned pets in the community
Valley Humane Society (VHS) creates a brighter future for cats and dogs by encouraging and strengthening the bond between people and pets. VHS rescues and rehabilitates companion animals, champions responsible caretaking, shares pets'…
Stray Hearts is a socially conscious shelter and adoption facility reuniting lost pets with their families and providing humane care and shelter for surrendered, lost, and homeless companion animals in Taos County, New Mexico.Our pledge:…
To rescue and save homeless, unwanted, abandoned, neglected, and abused dogs
Our mission is to provide compassionate services to pets and people in crisis.
PACC911 (Phoenix Animal Care Coalition) unites and supports pet rescue organizations throughout Arizona by fostering collaboration and providing critical resources that strengthen lifesaving efforts. Through large well promoted adoption…
Rescue, rehabilitation and "re-homing" of unwanted and abandoned dogs.
As a no-kill cat rescue, serving our community of Fountain Hills, AZ and surrounding areas, we are dedicated to rescuing cats and kittens left homeless for whatever reason and placing them in a loving, responsible, permanent home.
A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arizona Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is Music Is Instrumental. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 51 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 TWO BY TWO RESCUE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds BEACON OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds FOX TUCSON THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRAY LOVE UNITE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Pima Animal Care Center ↗
- Who funds Arizona Humane Society ↗
- Who funds Sister Jose Women's Center ↗
- Who funds MUSIC IS INSTRUMENTAL ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PHOENIX ↗
- Who funds Integrative Touch ↗
- Who funds The Womens Foundation for the State of Arizona ↗
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: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Arizona Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Kohl Family 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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