· Private foundation
Kohler Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k94 grants · $429k
- $10k–50k54 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+2 grants · $531k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER | $280,968 |
| LAKESHORE TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $250,000 |
| JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER | $249,479 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON | $190,677 |
| MULVANE ART MUSEUM AT WASHBURN UNIVERSITY | $163,016 |
| JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER | $158,773 |
| VOLLAND FOUNDATION | $120,600 |
| VILLAGE OF MOUNT MORRIS | $110,300 |
| ADDISON GALLERY OF AM ART AT PHILLIPS ACADEMY | $78,651 |
| ST MARY'S UNIVERSITY | $73,950 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA - TWIN CITI | $65,000 |
| ROCKFORD ART MUSEUM | $54,683 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - WHITEWATER | $54,100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $51,700 |
| JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER | $50,275 |
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 (FY20–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 20% 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.
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 +29% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
154 repeat relationships — 84 still active in FY2024, 70 since wound down; 52 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M 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
- TATHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO3× · 2021–2023 · $221k · revenue +43%
- MSMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS2× · 2022–2023 · $150k · revenue +6%
ST NORBERT COLLEGE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $124k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- KTKOHLER TRUST FOR CLEAN WATERgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $54M · revenue ×34
- FOFRIENDS OF DICKEYVILLE GROTTO INCone grant, 2023 · $7.6M
- TLTHE LOUIS ROUND WILSON LIBRARYone grant, 2021 · $3.0M
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Art Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is Black American Community Outreach Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 51 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
198 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. 198 of the 419 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 KOHLER TRUST FOR CLEAN WATER ↗
- Who funds JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds 5 4 7 ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds FREEBORN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NIAGARA FALLS NATIONAL HERITAGE ARE ↗
- Who funds ARTS FOUNDATION OF KOSCIUSKO INC ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds MARIAN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds UTAH ARTS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds FULLER CRAFT MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BEND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds HECKSCHER MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds ST NORBERT COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds VOLLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE JACK AND SHIRLEY LUBEZNIK CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds LUTHER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
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: Green Bay Packers Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Frank G & Frieda K Brotz Family Foundation Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Lakeshore Community Foundation Inc · Wm Collins Kohler Foundation Inc · Hayssen Family Foundation Inc · Fk Bemis Family Foundation Inc · Rdk Foundation · Ruth St John & John Dunham West Foundation Inc · Wisconsin Humanities Council Inc
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 Kohler Foundation Inc 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.
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- The American Visionary Art Museum Inc — 6% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Washington County Museum of Fine Arts — 2% of income from government
- Fuller Craft Museum Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College — 1% of income from government
- Fairfield University — 1% of income from government
- Berklee College of Music Inc — 1% of income from government
- Orlando Museum of Art Inc — 0% of income from government
- Florida Southern College — 0% of income from government
- Williams College — 0% of income from government
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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