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The Gustav & Gladys Kindt Foundation at a glance

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The Gustav & Gladys Kindt Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$120k
Granted FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$118kCommunity Improvement$108kEducation$100kYouth Development$89kHealth$82kCrime & Legal$49kFood & Nutrition$46kHousing & Shelter$43kOther$0
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PILLOWS WITH WINGS$6,079
ST MARCUS SCHOOL$5,000
META HOUSE INC$5,000
NEHEMIAH PROJECT INC$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF WI MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION$5,000
SAFE & SOUND INC$5,000
ALL HANDS BOATWORKS$4,000
APRICITY$4,000
NATIVITY JESUIT ACADEMY INC$4,000
WISCONSIN VETERANS NETWORK INC$4,000
ST FRANCIS CHILDREN'S CENTER INC$4,000
ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP$4,000
WAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY DENTAL CLINIC$4,000
CENTRO HISPANO INC$4,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $102k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $4k → 5%The Women's Center Inc: $4k → 5%JIM LUTHER NEW HOPE CENTER: $5k → 17%THE WOMEN'S CENTER: $3k → 5%The Women's Center Inc: $2k → 5%PILLOWS WITH WINGS: $6k → 5%CENTRO HISPANO INC: $4k → 10%The Gathering of Southeast Wisconsi: $5k → 17%The Gathering of Southeast Wisconsi: $3k → 17%GATHERING OF SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN INC: $3k → 17%The Gathering of Southeast Wisconsi: $3k → 17%The Gathering of Southeast Wisconsi: $3k → 17%SECUREFUTURES INC: $3k → 17%AFAR INC DBA THE ABILITY CENTER: $2k → 17%SECURE FUTURES INC: $3k → 17%AFAR INC DBA THE ABILITY CENTER: $2k → 17%Secure Futures Inc: $2k → 17%HeartLove Place Inc: $2k → 17%Hear Wisconsin Inc: $3k → 17%HEAR WISCONSIN INC: $3k → 17%Hear Wisconsin Inc: $3k → 17%HEAR WISCONSIN INC: $3k → 17%Hear Wisconsin Inc: $3k → 17%American Red Cross Wisconsin Region: $5k → 17%American Red Cross Wisconsin Region: $5k → 17%American Red Cross Wisconsin Region: $5k → 17%American Red Cross Wisconsin Region: $5k → 17%American Red Cross Wisconsin Region: $5k → 17%American Red Cross Wisconsin Region: $3k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$705k · 42 repeat orgs$85k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

42 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
13

Total granted

$705k
$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+16%

Still filing today

71%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CITY ON A HILL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $37k · revenue +40%
  • COALITION FOR CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILIES INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $33k · revenue +5%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    6× · 2017–2022 · $28k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • EC
    ENTREPRENEURS COALITION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -99%
  • II
    INTERCHANGE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +16%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Milwaukee Community Service Corps Inc

The milwaukee community service corps (mcsc) is a non-profit vocational training organization providing employment, education and life skills to training youth adults and unemployed and underemployed of milwaukee, wisconsin.

Employment
2
Groundwork Milwaukee Inc

Bring about the sustained regeneration, improvement, and management of the physical environment by developing community-based partnerships that empower people, businesses, and organizations to promote environmental, economic, and social…

Environment
3
Employ Milwaukee Inc

The mission of employ milwaukee, inc. is to build a strong workforce development system by planning, coordinating, collaborating and monitoring workforce initiatives with businesses, partners and community stakeholders at the local,…

Employment
4
NourishMKE Inc

We're a network of community food centers that specializes in food, love, and community. Hunger is a real problem, and access to food should be a fundamental right. No one should be made to feel they're not deserving of nourishment when…

Food & Nutrition
5
Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.

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6
Nonprofit Center of Milwaukee Inc

To promote interests and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector through strengthening organizational capacity, expanding volunteerism and encouraging collaboration.

—
7
Portal Inc

To enhance opportunities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (i/dd) to participate fully in their community as valued neighbors, productive workers and respected citizens. portal, inc. assists more than 200 adults…

Employment
8
Pathways of Wisconsin Inc

Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.

Human Services
9
Wisconsin Progress Inc

Wisconsin progress recruits, trains, elects, and develops progressive candidates and leaders at the local and state legislative levels.

Civil Rights
10
Cap Services Inc

Cap services, inc.'s mission is to transform people and communities to advance social and economic justice.

Human Services
11
Goodwill Industries of South Central Wisconsin Inc

Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…

Employment
12
Milwaukee Parks Foundation Inc

Engage our community in supporting milwaukee county parks to collectively steward a thriving park system.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seeds of Health Inc; the most unlike its peers is Step Industries Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 40 of the 63 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/40
Grantees still filing
29/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OPERATION DREAM INC: $40,000 · OtherOPERATION DREAM INCACTS Community Development Corporat: $36,000 · OtherACTS Community Development CorporatSafe Sound Inc: $33,000 · OtherSafe Sound IncCOALITION FOR CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILIES INC: $33,000 · OtherCOALITION FOR CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILIES INCMILWAUKEE RESCUE MISSION: $33,000 · OtherMILWAUKEE RESCUE MISSIONMILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $31,000 · OtherMILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCUniversity of WI Milwaukee Foundati: $29,000 · OtherUniversity of WI Milwaukee FoundatiMETA HOUSE INC: $23,000 · OtherTHE MOORING PROGRAMS INCORPORATED: $20,000 · Other+36 more: $240,000 · Other+36 moreAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $28,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Natio…GATHERING OF SOUTHEAST WI INC: $17,000 · Human ServicesGATHERING OF S…HEAR Wisconsin Inc: $15,000 · Human ServicesHEAR Wisconsin…THE WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $13,000 · Human ServicesTHE WOMEN'S CE…SECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesSECUREFUTURES …PILLOWS WITH WINGS INC: $6,079 · Human ServicesPILLOWS WITH W…Jim Luther New Hope Center Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesAFAR INC DBA THE ABILITY CENTER: $4,000 · Human ServicesCENTRO HISPANO INC: $4,000 · Human Services+1 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesNehemiah Project Inc: $55,000 · Community ImprovementNehemiah …THE COMMUNITY WAREHOUSE INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementTHE COMMU…CITY ON A HILL INC: $37,000 · ReligionASCENSION WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC: $27,000 · PhilanthropyALL HANDS BOATWORKS INC: $16,000 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS WISCONSIN INC: $9,000 · Recreation & SportsSafe & Sound Inc: $10,000 · Crime & LegalMKE URBAN STABLES INC: $6,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$518,000Human Services$102,079Community Improvement$65,000Religion$37,000Philanthropy$27,000Recreation & Sports$25,000Crime & Legal$16,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNehemiah Project Inc: $55,000 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetOPERATION DREAM INC: $40,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetCITY ON A HILL INC: $37,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCOALITION FOR CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILIES INC: $33,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetMILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $31,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $28,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetASCENSION WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC: $27,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMETA HOUSE INC: $23,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOORING PROGRAMS INCORPORATED: $20,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGATHERING OF SOUTHEAST WI INC: $17,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetALL HANDS BOATWORKS INC: $16,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetHEAR Wisconsin Inc: $15,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetENTREPRENEURS COALITION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetLEAD2CHANGE INC: $14,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $13,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSEEDS OF HEALTH INC: $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY WAREHOUSE INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSafe & Sound Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHistoric Haymarket Milwaukee Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS WISCONSIN INC: $9,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHMONG AMERICAN PEACE ACADEMY LTD: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOUR NEXT GENERATION INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY DENTAL CLINIC INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPILLOWS WITH WINGS INC: $6,079 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetMKE URBAN STABLES INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPINK UMBRELLA THEATER COMPANY: $6,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetLIFE NAVIGATORS INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINTERCHANGE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJim Luther New Hope Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWISCONSIN VETERANS NETWORK INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRADIO MILWAUKEE INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAFAR INC DBA THE ABILITY CENTER: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNAMI GREATER MILWAUKEE INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSTEP INDUSTRIES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEARTLOVE PLACE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLEGACY REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Nehemiah Project Inc ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION DREAM INC ↗
  • Who funds CITY ON A HILL INC ↗
  • Who funds COALITION FOR CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILIES INC ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds ASCENSION WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds META HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MOORING PROGRAMS INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds GATHERING OF SOUTHEAST WI INC ↗
  • Who funds ALL HANDS BOATWORKS INC ↗
  • Who funds HEAR Wisconsin Inc ↗
  • Who funds ENTREPRENEURS COALITION INC ↗
  • Who funds LEAD2CHANGE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SEEDS OF HEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY WAREHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds Safe & Sound Inc ↗
  • Who funds Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Inc ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS WISCONSIN INC ↗
  • Who funds HMONG AMERICAN PEACE ACADEMY LTD ↗
  • Who funds ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds SECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds OUR NEXT GENERATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY DENTAL CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds PILLOWS WITH WINGS INC ↗
  • Who funds MKE URBAN STABLES INC ↗
  • Who funds PINK UMBRELLA THEATER COMPANY ↗

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.

Greater Milwaukee Fou…Herbert H Kohl Charit…United Way of Greater…Anon Charitable TrustRalph Evinrude Founda…Green Bay Packers Fou…Youth Foundation IncJoseph and Vera Zilbe…The Lynde and Harry B…The Ros FoundationBaird Foundation IncEvan & Marion Helfaer…
Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI66.5× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Youth Foundation Inc · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · The Ros Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Gustav & Gladys Kindt Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gustav & Gladys Kindt Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Gustav & Gladys Kindt Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Gustav & Gladys Kindt Foundation 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.

    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 63 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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