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The Herbert V Kohler Jrnatalie Black Kohler Foundation for Giving Back

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$15M
Granted FY2023
10
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 99% of THE HERBERT V KOHLER JRNATALIE BLACK KOHLER FOUNDATION FOR GIVING BACK’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2023 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,463,381
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIDELITY CHARITABLE (HANNAH KOHLER PROUDMAN FUND FOR GIVING BACK)$1,463,381
FIDELITY CHARITABLE (ASHLEY KOHLER CHARITABLE FUND)$1,463,381
FIDELITY CHARITABLE (JACK KOHLER GIVING BACK FUND)$1,463,381
FIDELITY CHARITABLE (RACHEL E KOHLER PROUDMAN FUND FOR GIVING BACK)$1,463,381
FIDELITY CHARITABLE (MK HOPLAMAZIAN IMPACT FUND)$1,463,381
FIDELITY CHARITABLE (LK HOPLAMAZIAN IMPACT FUND)$1,463,381
FIDELITY CHARITABLE (LILY KOHLER PROUDMAN FUND FOR GIVING BACK)$1,463,381
FIDELITY CHARITABLE (KATHERINE KOHLER GIVING BACK FUND)$1,463,381
FIDELITY CHARITABLE (LEO HOPLAMAZIAN IMPACT FUND)$1,463,381
FIDELITY CHARITABLE (SAMUEL KOHLER GIVING BACK FUND)$1,463,381
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–21, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 61% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%POVERTY ALLEVIATION CHICAGO: $6k → 14%SHEBOYGAN COUNTY SAFE HARBOR: $10k → 9%BRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your field

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.

1
Feeding South Dakota

To eliminate hunger in south dakota.

Food & Nutrition
2
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

3
Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition
4
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

5
Impact Community Action Partnership Inc

Reducing the barriers and burdens that families in poverty experience by increasing access to essential needs.

6
Patient Access Network Foundation

As a leading charitable foundation and healthcare advocacy organization, the pan foundation is dedicated to accelerating access to treatment for those who need it most and empowering patients on their healthcare journeys. we provide…

7
Business Leaders for Michigan

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

8
Midwest Food Bank Nfp

It is the mission of midwest food bank to share the love of christ by alleviating hunger and malnutrition and providing disaster relief.

Human Services
9
Foodshot Global Inc

Accelerate the transformation to a healthy, sustainable and equitable food system.

Food & Nutrition
10
Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

Community Improvement
11
Behavior Analyst Certification Board Inc

We protect consumers of behavior analysis services by systematically establishing, promoting, and disseminating professional standards.

Employment
12
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health

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 Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas 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

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 38 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
6/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FIDELITY CHARITABLE (RACHEL E KOHLER PROUDMAN FUND FOR GIVING BACK) — $1,463,381 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE (RACHEL E KOHLER PROUDMAN FUND FOR GIVING BACK)FIDELITY CHARITABLE (HANNAH KOHLER PROUDMAN FUND FOR GIVING BACK) — $1,463,381 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE (HANNAH KOHLER PROUDMAN FUND FOR GIVING BACK)FIDELITY CHARITABLE (KATHERINE KOHLER GIVING BACK FUND) — $1,463,381 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE (KATHERINE KOHLER GIVING BACK FUND)FIDELITY CHARITABLE (MK HOPLAMAZIAN IMPACT FUND) — $1,463,381 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE (MK HOPLAMAZIAN IMPACT FUND)FIDELITY CHARITABLE (SAMUEL KOHLER GIVING BACK FUND) — $1,463,381 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE (SAMUEL KOHLER GIVING BACK FUND)FIDELITY CHARITABLE (LILY KOHLER PROUDMAN FUND FOR GIVING BACK) — $1,463,381 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE (LILY KOHLER PROUDMAN FUND FOR GIVING BACK)FIDELITY CHARITABLE (JACK KOHLER GIVING BACK FUND) — $1,463,381 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE (JACK KOHLER GIVING BACK FUND)FIDELITY CHARITABLE (LEO HOPLAMAZIAN IMPACT FUND) — $1,463,381 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE (LEO HOPLAMAZIAN IMPACT FUND)FIDELITY CHARITABLE (ASHLEY KOHLER CHARITABLE FUND) — $1,463,381 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE (ASHLEY KOHLER CHARITABLE FUND)FIDELITY CHARITABLE (LK HOPLAMAZIAN IMPACT FUND) — $1,463,381 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE (LK HOPLAMAZIAN IMPACT FUND)+17 more — $397,820 · OtherSHEBOYGAN COUNTY FOOD BANK INC — $35,400 · Food & NutritionFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC — $8,850 · Food & NutritionBRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE — $10,062 · Human ServicesSAFE HARBOR OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC — $10,062 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER — $8,850 · Human ServicesLETTERS CHARITY — $5,900 · Human ServicesPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC — $20,124 · HealthCATCH-A-DREAM FOUNDATION — $10,062 · HealthMINNESOTA FREEDOM FUND — $17,700 · Crime & LegalMOTHERS AGAINST DRUNK DRIVING — $10,062 · Crime & LegalNMDP FOUNDATION — $6,708 · Philanthropy
Other$15,031,630Food & Nutrition$44,250Human Services$34,874Health$30,186Crime & Legal$27,762Philanthropy$6,708

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC — $43,724 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetSHEBOYGAN COUNTY FOOD BANK INC — $35,400 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMAPSCORPS — $20,650 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC — $20,124 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA FREEDOM FUND — $17,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE — $10,062 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMOTHERS AGAINST DRUNK DRIVING — $10,062 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATCH-A-DREAM FOUNDATION — $10,062 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSAFE HARBOR OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC — $10,062 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $8,850 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC — $8,850 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNMDP FOUNDATION — $6,708 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLETTERS CHARITY — $5,900 over 1y, 2.7% of budget
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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC
  • Who funds SHEBOYGAN COUNTY FOOD BANK INC
  • Who funds MAPSCORPS
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC
  • Who funds MINNESOTA FREEDOM FUND
  • Who funds BRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE
  • Who funds MOTHERS AGAINST DRUNK DRIVING
  • Who funds CATCH-A-DREAM FOUNDATION
  • Who funds SAFE HARBOR OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC
  • Who funds TIDES CENTER
  • Who funds FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC
  • Who funds NMDP FOUNDATION
  • Who funds LETTERS CHARITY

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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA6.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 The Herbert V Kohler Jrnatalie Black Kohler Foundation for Giving Back 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

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    How do I get to The Herbert V Kohler Jrnatalie Black Kohler Foundation for Giving Back?

    Find your warmest path to The Herbert V Kohler Jrnatalie Black Kohler Foundation for Giving Back 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 38 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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