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The Klug Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$54k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
18
Organizations funded FY2024
22%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$4,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$13,200
Organizations funded a year
3 to 18
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$864k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations The Klug Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

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

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

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HealthEducationHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterPublic BenefitReligionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving14$54k14%
FY202418$56k22%
FY202315$41k7%
FY202218$41k28%
FY20214$7k50%
FY20203$10k100%
FY201915$40k33%
FY201818$26k44%
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What it funded, over time

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

Religion$103kHealth$79kHuman Services$39kYouth Development$28kEducation$26kPublic Safety & Disaster$16kCivil Rights$12kHousing & Shelter$9kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Holy Name of Jesus Evangelical Catholic Church$59,0756n/a
Rawhide Inc$27,50060%
Wisconsin Right to Life Education Fund$24,00051%
Lake Area Free Clinic Inc$13,00040%
Ashippun Fire Department Inc$9,00081%
St Coletta of Wisconsin Inc$8,50030%
Divine Word College$8,0004n/a
Red Cloud Indian School$5,5002n/a
Catholic Relief Services$5,0003n/a
Life's Connection Inc$4,50020%
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All grantees of The Klug Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Holy Name of Jesus Evangelical Catholic Church$59,0756n/a
Rawhide Inc$27,50060%
Wisconsin Right to Life Education Fund$24,00051%
Lake Area Free Clinic Inc$13,00040%
Ashippun Fire Department Inc$9,00081%
St Coletta of Wisconsin Inc$8,50030%
Divine Word College$8,0004n/a
Red Cloud Indian School$5,5002n/a
Catholic Relief Services$5,0003n/a
Life's Connection Inc$4,50020%
Paralyzed Veterans of America - Wisconsin Chapter$4,5002n/a
St Olafs Lutheran Church$3,7504n/a
Public Action to Deliver Shelter Inc D/B/A Hesed House$2,0001n/a
Hebron House of Hospitality Inc D/B/A Hebron Housing Services$2,00010%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$1,00010%
Vcy America Inc$1,0001n/a
The School Sisters of St Francis$1,0001n/a
Judicial Watch Inc$1,00020%
Blood Cancer United Inc$80010%
Troops Direct$75010%
Focus on the Family$7002n/a
The Heritage Foundation$50010%
Schauer Arts & Activities Center Inc$50010%
Young America's Foundation$10010%
Eternal Word Television Network Inc$10010%

Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($141k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRawhide Inc: $27,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWisconsin Right to Life Education Fund: $24,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetLake Area Free Clinic Inc: $13,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAshippun Fire Department Inc: $9,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetSt Coletta of Wisconsin Inc: $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLife's Connection Inc: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHebron House of Hospitality Inc D/B/A Hebron Housing Services: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJudicial Watch Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTroops Direct: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Heritage Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSchauer Arts & Activities Center Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEternal Word Television Network Inc: $100 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 15.

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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 Foundation IncWI19.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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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How do I get to The Klug Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Klug Family 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.

About The Klug Family Foundation

How much does The Klug Family Foundation give?
The Klug Family Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $54,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Klug Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (32%), Health (24%), Human Services (12%).
Who are The Klug Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Holy Name of Jesus Evangelical Catholic Church ($59k), Rawhide Inc ($28k), Wisconsin Right to Life Education Fund ($24k).
Does The Klug Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Klug Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Klug Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, Archdiocese of Milwaukee Catholic Community Foundation Inc, Baird Foundation Inc.
Where is The Klug Family Foundation based?
The Klug 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 58 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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