· Private foundation
Terry Kohler Family Foundation Inc
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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE SHEBOYGAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $25,000 |
| WISCONSIN MARITIME MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| GLACIAL LAKES CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| ABOVE AND BEYOND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
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 (FY18–23, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +89% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
- USUNITED STATES SAILING ASSOCIATION INC5× · 2018–2022 · $360k · revenue +1%
GLACIAL LAKES CONSERVANCY INC8× · 2018–2025 · $43k · revenue +404%- BGBOOKWORM GARDENS INC5× · 2018–2022 · $34k · revenue +95%
Funded once
- SOSCIENCE ON A RIVER INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -99%
- TSTHE SAILING MUSEUMone grant, 2023 · $6k
TRUE SKOOL INCone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +18%
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.
Promote sheboygan county business development.
Safeguard southern michigan's land and water to support diverse, resilient, and thriving communities - forever
We advocate for business growth and support the success of our members while collaborating with partners to promote shelby county as a highly desirable community in which to live, work, and play.
Bird research and conservation in the western lake michigan region of the united states.
Provide educational development programs in sheboygan county
To conserve the land, water and scenic character of leelanau county, and to provide educational programs to develop an understanding and appreciation of leelanau county's natural heritage.
The mission of great lakes community action partnership is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.
The door county land trust is a local, non-governmental non-profit organization whose mission is to preserve door county's exceptional lands and waters forever.
Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
To promote oshkosh and winnebago county a premier destination for corporate, sports, and leisure groups and individual visitors.
To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safe Harbor of Sheboygan County Inc and the most unlike its peers is True Skool 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 35 years old; the field is 22. 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 — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 45 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 UNITED STATES SAILING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHEBOYGAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds GLACIAL LAKES CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds BOOKWORM GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN MARITIME MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NOURISH FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds SHEBOYGAN COUNTY HISTORICAL RESEARCH CENTERINC ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE ON A RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY WORLD LTD ↗
- Who funds SHARON S RICHARDSON COMMUNITY HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds TRUE SKOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SHEBOYGAN COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds AURORA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF STEVENS POINT ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SHEBOYGAN ROTARY CLUB ↗
- Who funds COLORADO VILLAGE COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds ICE AGE TRAIL ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds SHEBOYGAN COUNTY CANCER CARE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds The World Orphan Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE CHAMBER THEATRE LTD ↗
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: Green Bay Packers Foundation · Frank G & Frieda K Brotz Family Foundation Inc · Kohler Foundation Inc · Wm Collins Kohler Foundation Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Fk Bemis Family Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Lakeshore Community Foundation Inc · Hayssen Family Foundation Inc · Randall J & Judith F Hake Family Foundation Inc · The Sartori Family Foundation Inc · Melitta S and Joan M Pick Charitable Trust
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 Terry Kohler Family Foundation Inc 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Terry Kohler Family Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to Terry Kohler Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.