· Private foundation
Kolaga Family Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k30 grants · $94k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Feeding America | $18,000 |
| Planned Parenthood of WI | $16,000 |
| The Womens Center | $11,000 |
| The Salvation Army | $8,500 |
| Milwaukee Rescue Mission | $8,000 |
| Lutheran Social Services B 2 Three | $7,500 |
| Pathfinders | $7,500 |
| Hope House of Milwaukee | $6,000 |
| Vince Lombardi Cancer Center | $6,000 |
| Lake Area Free Clinic | $5,475 |
| Woodland Academy Lake Country | $4,500 |
| Crivitz Area Food Pantry | $4,000 |
| Walkers Point Youth Family Center | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,050 |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Mil | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $267k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 62% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
85 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 63 since wound down; 11 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k 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
- HCHope Center Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $94k · revenue +87%
HUNGER TASK FORCE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $85k · revenue +70%- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC8× · 2017–2024 · $70k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- ESEASTER SEALS OF SOUTHEAST WISCONSINone grant, 2020 · $8k
Vince Lombardi Cancer Foundation Incone grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue +2%- VLVINCE LOMBARDI GOLF CLASSICone grant, 2024 · $6k
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.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
The war memorial center's mission is to honor the dead and serve the living. we commemorate the courageous men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of freedom while preserving and sharing the stories, experiences, and…
Milwaukee women inc is an organization of executives determined to change the quality and composition of corporate boards to maximize the performance of public and private companies with a focus on women and women of color.
The humane animal welfare society of waukesha county leads the community in animal welfare and assures sanctuary for animals in need.
The wisconsin health information organization maintains a centralized health care data repository to provide data and information on the quality, safety, cost, and equity of health care to all health care stakeholders for improvement,…
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
The purpose of the association shall be to restore and conserve wisconsin's waterfowl and wetland resources; to educate state waterfowlers during their progression from natural resource consumer to steward; and to promote governmental…
To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.
The mission of the wisconsin institute for healthy aging, inc. is to improve the health and well-being of all people as they age. we do this by disseminating evidence-based health promotion and prevention programs and practices and by…
We inspire people to experience life at its fullest by encouraging ownership of health, fostering independence, and serving the whole person; and do so with an unwavering commitment as stewards of medicaid funding.
Founded in 1911, our mission is to make wisconsin the most competitive state in the nation to do business. we are wisconsin's business voice.
Wisconsin family ties changes lives by improving children's mental health. it accomplishes this mission through a set of interrelated activities that support and educate parents, and inform practitioners, policy makers and the public about…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Center for Independence Inc and the most unlike its peers is Twin Bridge Rescue Squad Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
57 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 57 of the 114 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
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 Hope Center Inc ↗
- Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE AREA FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds LITERACY SERVICES OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds NIA IMANI FAMILY INC ↗
- Who funds PATHFINDERS MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE IN NEED CENTER LTD ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds CRIVITZ AREA FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds Woodland Academy-Lake Country Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ENGLEWOOD HELPING HAND INC ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY WORLD LTD ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WAUKESHA COUNTY CHRISTMAS CLEARING COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds MUSLIM WOMEN'S COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds WALKER'S POINT YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Warmline ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
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: 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
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 Kolaga Family Charitable Trust 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.
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.