· Private foundation
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 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 $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 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $600 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $600 |
| FRIENDS OF ELKHART LAKE LIBRARY | $600 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 61% of its 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 +103% since the first grant, against -1% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 51 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kohl Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kohl Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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