Wisconsin · Public charity
Kohler Trust for Preservation
To support the listed beneficiaries in their conservation and preservation efforts.
- $3.7M
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2026
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $837,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $1,750,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 6
- FY2019 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 1
- Total assets, FY2026
- $9.5M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 0% of the organizations Kohler Trust for Preservation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 4 | $1.9M | 0% |
| FY2025 | 4 | $2.1M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $1.5M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $725k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $1.5M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $1.1M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $1.1M | 0% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $1.5M | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin | $4,634,890 | 10 | n/a |
| Wisconsin Historical Foundation Inc | $4,270,800 | 10 | 5% |
| Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated | $2,480,000 | 8 | 0% |
| John Michael Kohler Arts Center Inc | $1,613,000 | 10 | 3% |
| Aldo Leopold Foundation Inc | $890,000 | 10 | 7% |
| The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation | $300,000 | 3 | 2% |
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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Kohler Trust for Preservation
- How much does Kohler Trust for Preservation give?
- Kohler Trust for Preservation reported 5 grants totaling $3,695,000 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 6 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
- What does Kohler Trust for Preservation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (60%), Environment (27%), Education (10%).
- Who are Kohler Trust for Preservation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: State Historical Society of Wisconsin ($4.6M), Wisconsin Historical Foundation Inc ($4.3M), Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated ($2.5M).
- Does Kohler Trust for Preservation fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Kohler Trust for Preservation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Kohler Trust for Preservation based?
- Kohler Trust for Preservation is based in WI.
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