· Private foundation
Kohler Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k85 grants · $442k
- $10k–50k52 grants · $1.0M
- $50k–250k6 grants · $556k
- $250k+4 grants · $7.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER | $5,911,803 |
| JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER | $510,042 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON | $289,267 |
| LAKESHORE ADVANTAGE SCHOLARSHIP GRANT | $250,000 |
| JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER | $169,850 |
| JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER | $112,000 |
| RACINE ART MUSEUM | $90,000 |
| TUFTS UNIVERSITY ART GALLERIES | $79,350 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA - TWIN CITI | $54,375 |
| JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $47,986 |
| RACINE ART MUSEUM | $42,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - LACROSSE | $37,500 |
| VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY | $35,500 |
| MIDWEST MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART | $35,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +24% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.
175 repeat relationships: 80 still active in FY2025, 95 since wound down; 47 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $795k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
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 INC6× · 2020–2025 · $139k · 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
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 educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Mcad provides a transformative education within a community of support for creative students of all backgrounds to work, collaborate, and lead with confidence in a dynamic, interconnected world.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Wesleyan university is dedicated to providing an education in liberal arts by building a diverse, energetic community of students, faculty, and staff who value independence of mind and generosity of spirit. see additional description in…
Cornell college offers an innovative and rigorous learning community where faculty and staff collaborate with students to develop the intellectual curiosity, creativity and moral courage necessary for a lifetime of learning and engaged…
Lawrence university of wisconsin, through its undergraduate residential college and conservatory of music, educates students in the liberal arts and sciences. the university is devoted to excellence and integrity in all of its activities…
Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
The college of wooster is a community of independent minds, working together to prepare students to become leaders of character and influence in an interdependent global community. (continued on schedule o)we engage motivated students in a…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
How this is measured
210 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 210 of the 466 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 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 ST NORBERT COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds VOLLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE JACK AND SHIRLEY LUBEZNIK CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kohler Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kohler Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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