Wisconsin · Private foundation
Kohler Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $9.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 147
- Grants FY2025
- 136
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,911,803
- Organizations funded a year
- 131 to 164
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 18
- Total assets, FY2025
- $486M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Kohler Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 127 | $9.0M | 37% |
| FY2024 | 136 | $3.8M | 38% |
| FY2023 | 164 | $67M | 45% |
| FY2022 | 159 | $12M | 47% |
| FY2021 | 144 | $12M | 57% |
| FY2020 | 131 | $2.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kohler Trust for Clean Water | $53,690,000 | 1 | n/a |
| John Michael Kohler Arts Center Inc | $12,871,392 | 6 | 20% |
| 5 4 7 Arts Center | $4,266,121 | 3 | 27% |
| Freeborn County Historical Society | $2,069,927 | 1 | n/a |
| Niagara Falls National Heritage Are | $1,066,191 | 1 | 70% |
| Arts Foundation of Kosciusko Inc | $872,650 | 1 | n/a |
| Mississippi Museum of Art Inc | $547,865 | 1 | 10% |
| Marian University Inc | $415,180 | 2 | 1% |
| Utah Arts Alliance | $369,250 | 1 | 15% |
| Fuller Craft Museum Inc | $366,175 | 1 | 23% |
Show all 229 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 231 recipients with no EIN on record ($23M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Kohler Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 194 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
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About Kohler Foundation Inc
- How much does Kohler Foundation Inc give?
- Kohler Foundation Inc reported 147 grants totaling $8,973,384 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 131 and 164 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Kohler Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (56%), Arts & Culture (38%), Education (5%).
- Who are Kohler Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Kohler Trust for Clean Water ($54M), John Michael Kohler Arts Center Inc ($13M), 5 4 7 Arts Center ($4.3M).
- Does Kohler Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Kohler Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Kohler Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Green Bay Packers Foundation, Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc, Frank G & Frieda K Brotz Family Foundation Inc.
- Where is Kohler Foundation Inc based?
- Kohler Foundation Inc is based in WI.
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