Wisconsin · Private foundation
Kolaga Family Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $139k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2025
- 64
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $18,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 58 to 64
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Kolaga Family Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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 | 33 | $139k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 64 | $232k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 58 | $254k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 59 | $310k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 58 | $272k | 9% |
| FY2020 | 60 | $262k | 10% |
| FY2019 | 60 | $225k | 13% |
| FY2018 | 60 | $208k | 7% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milwaukee Rescue Mission | $94,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Hope Center Inc | $93,888 | 6 | 3% |
| Hunger Task Force Inc | $85,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin Inc | $70,460 | 8 | 0% |
| Lake Area Free Clinic Inc | $55,775 | 9 | 2% |
| Milwaukee Public Museum Inc | $55,200 | 8 | 0% |
| Hope House of Milwaukee Incorporated | $49,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Literacy Services of Wisconsin Inc | $48,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Green County Inc | $47,500 | 8 | 3% |
| Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Inc | $44,638 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 59 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 55 recipients with no EIN on record ($676k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kolaga Family Charitable Trust supplied at peak.
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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: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · The Ros Foundation · Waukesha County Community Foundation · Gardner Foundation · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Kolaga Family Charitable Trust
- How much does Kolaga Family Charitable Trust give?
- Kolaga Family Charitable Trust reported 33 grants totaling $138,925 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 58 and 64 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Kolaga Family Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (22%), Health (17%), Food & Nutrition (12%).
- Who are Kolaga Family Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Milwaukee Rescue Mission ($94k), Hope Center Inc ($94k), Hunger Task Force Inc ($85k).
- Does Kolaga Family Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Kolaga Family Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Kolaga Family Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, Green Bay Packers Foundation, Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc.
- Where is Kolaga Family Charitable Trust based?
- Kolaga Family Charitable Trust is based in WI.
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