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Kuehl Family Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$72k
Granted FY2020
23
Grants FY2020
23
Organizations funded FY2020
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100% of Kuehl Family Foundation’s FY2021 grant dollars went to Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Kuehl Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 14 organizations, $72k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

14
’20
0
’21

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2020
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$10,000
States reached, FY2020
5
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.

Philanthropy$1.9MHealth$17kHuman Services$11kReligion$10kArts & Culture$7kCivil Rights$6kHousing & Shelter$5kFood & Nutrition$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 14 grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($31k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kuehl Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOur Next Generation Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMilwaukee Habitat for Humanity Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America Eastern Wisconsin Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMilwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMilwaukee Art Museum Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMilwaukee Public Museum Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFroedtert Hospital Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSojourner Family Peace Center Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics Wisconsin Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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.

Herbert H Kohl Charities IncWI15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Gardner Foundation · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Kuehl Family Foundation

How much does Kuehl Family Foundation give?
Kuehl Family Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $72,000 in its FY2020 IRS filing.
What does Kuehl Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2020, its largest causes are Philanthropy (97%), Health (1%), Human Services (1%).
Who are Kuehl Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2020: Make-A-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin Inc ($7k), Our Next Generation Inc ($6k), Milwaukee Habitat for Humanity Inc ($5k).
Does Kuehl Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Kuehl Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc, Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, Baird Foundation Inc.
Where is Kuehl Family Foundation based?
Kuehl Family Foundation is based in WI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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