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Wm Collins Kohler Foundation Inc at a glance

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Wm Collins Kohler Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
45
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$270k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$4.8MArts & Culture$2.2MCivil Rights$1.5MInternational$1.4MEnvironment$985kCrime & Legal$951kPhilanthropy$933kHousing & Shelter$770kOther$0
02FY2024 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $336k
  • $50k–250k19 grants · $2.0M
  • $250k+2 grants · $526k
$40,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$41M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TIDES FOUNDATION$270,000
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION$256,000
FRACTURED ATLAS INC$200,000
ALLIANCE FOR PEACEBUILDING$175,000
SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION$150,000
AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC$150,000
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES$150,000
UWM FOUNDATION INC$140,000
VOCES DE LA FRONTERA$120,000
NIA IMANI FAMILY INC$100,000
PAROLE PREPARATION PROJECT$100,000
PASTORS UNITED COMMUNITY ADVOCACY$100,000
CLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE$100,000
LAW FORWARD INC$91,000
SOCIAL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS$80,000
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 (FY19–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NIA IMANI FAMILY INC: $245k → 17%NIA IMANI FAMILY INC: $125k → 17%NIA IMANI FAMILY INC: $100k → 17%NIA IMANI FAMILY INC: $100k → 17%NIA IMANI FAMILY INC: $100k → 17%NIA IMANI FAMILY INC: $100k → 17%ASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT INC: $25k → 17%ASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT INC: $25k → 17%ASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT INC: $25k → 17%VOCES DE LA FRONTERA: $120k → 17%VOCES DE LA FRONTERA: $120k → 17%SAFE HARBOR OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC: $20k → 9%VOCES DE LA FRONTERA: $120k → 17%VOCES DE LA FRONTERA: $60k → 17%SAFE HARBOR OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC: $10k → 9%SAFE HARBOR OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC: $10k → 9%SAFE HARBOR OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC: $10k → 9%HMONG MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSN OF SHEBOYGA: $8k → 9%HMONG MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION OF S: $8k → 9%HMONG MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $5k → 9%HMONG MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $5k → 9%HMONG MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $5k → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
NY
MA
OR
SD
RI
CA
VA
SC
DC
LA
GA
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 61 repeat orgs$981k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

61 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
40

Total granted

$14M
$861k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+8%

Still filing today

84%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesCrime & LegalHealthOther
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

  • THE UWM FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +30%
  • NIA IMANI FAMILY INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $770k · revenue +16% · 35% of their budget
  • VOCES DE LA FRONTERA INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $420k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • FA
    FRACTURED ATLAS
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • AO
    ACLU OF WISCONSIN
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • WI
    WISDOM INC
    one grant, 2020 · $80k
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
Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit
2
Association of Washington Cities

The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…

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3
Common Good Iowa

Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.

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4
Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

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

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5
Cap Services Inc

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

Human Services
6
One Wisconsin Now Inc

To advance progressive values, ideas and policies through research, policy, networking, advocacy and public education.

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7
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.

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8
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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9
Community Shares of Minnesota

The mission of community shares of minnesota is to create a fair, just and equitable minnesota. community shares of minnesota accomplishes its mission by: supporting collective action to eliminate root causes of inequality and injustice;…

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10
Radio Milwaukee Inc

To reach a new generation of radio listeners on air, online and in the community with a compelling selection of music and public affairs programming. the corporation celebrates milwaukee music, arts, heritage, and culture by supporting and…

Arts & Culture
11
Cooperative Network

Promote, represent & advocate for the cooperative way of doing business

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12
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc; the most unlike its peers is Project South 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

69 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. 69 of the 108 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/69
Grantees still filing
50/69
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE UWM FOUNDATION INC: $3,298,094 · EducationTHE UWM FOUNDATION INCUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $556,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATIO…THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $300,000 · EducationTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN …AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC: $300,000 · EducationAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC+4 more: $247,375 · EducationCENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES INC: $390,000 · OtherCENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNAT…GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION DAF: $154,432 · OtherMILWAUKEE TURNERS INC: $150,000 · OtherTIDES FOUNDATION: $580,000 · OtherTIDES FOUNDATIONWISDOM INC: $150,000 · OtherPASTORS UNITED COMMUNITY ADVOCACY INC: $300,000 · OtherPASTORS UNITED COMMUNITY ADVO…NDN COLLECTIVE INC: $250,000 · OtherNDN COLLECTIVE INCCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC: $220,000 · OtherCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY …+62 more: $1,880,086 · Other+62 moreJOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER INC: $1,020,000 · Arts & CultureJOHN MICHAEL …FRACTURED ATLAS INC: $400,000 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATL…WCIJ INC: $280,000 · Arts & CultureWCIJ INC+6 more: $185,000 · Arts & Culture+6 moreALLIANCE FOR PEACEBUILDING: $1,025,000 · InternationalALLIANCE F…THOUSAND CURRENTS: $360,000 · InternationalTHOUSAND C…+1 more: $5,000 · InternationalNIA IMANI FAMILY INC: $770,000 · Human ServicesNIA IMANI…VOCES DE LA FRONTERA INC: $420,000 · Human ServicesVOCES DE …ASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesASYLUM SE…SAFE HARBOR OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC: $60,000 · Human Services+1 more: $30,000 · Human ServicesLAW FORWARD INC: $381,000 · Crime & LegalLAW FORWA…PAROLE PREPARATION PROJECT INC: $340,000 · Crime & LegalPAROLE PR…EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS: $307,500 · Crime & LegalEQUAL JUS…WISCONSIN JUSTICE INITIATIVE INC: $159,531 · Crime & LegalWISCONSIN…MKE URBAN STABLES INC: $90,000 · Crime & LegalMKE URBAN…CLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE: $300,000 · EnvironmentSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION: $300,000 · EnvironmentSUNRISE MOVEMENT EDUCATION FUND: $140,000 · EnvironmentTaproot Earth: $100,000 · EnvironmentSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $95,000 · EnvironmentURBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC: $50,000 · Environment+2 more: $15,000 · Environment
Education$4,701,469Other$4,074,518Arts & Culture$1,885,000International$1,390,000Human Services$1,355,000Crime & Legal$1,278,031Environment$1,000,000

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 budgetTHE UWM FOUNDATION INC: $3,298,094 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetALLIANCE FOR PEACEBUILDING: $1,025,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetJOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER INC: $1,020,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetNIA IMANI FAMILY INC: $770,000 over 6y, 35% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $580,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $556,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVOCES DE LA FRONTERA INC: $420,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $400,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES INC: $390,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetLAW FORWARD INC: $381,000 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetTHOUSAND CURRENTS: $360,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPAROLE PREPARATION PROJECT INC: $340,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE WORKS: $307,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $300,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE: $300,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC: $300,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPASTORS UNITED COMMUNITY ADVOCACY INC: $300,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetWCIJ INC: $280,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetNDN COLLECTIVE INC: $250,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC: $220,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWISCONSIN JUSTICE INITIATIVE INC: $159,531 over 4y, 34% of budgetWISDOM INC: $150,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetMILWAUKEE TURNERS INC: $150,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetSUNRISE MOVEMENT EDUCATION FUND: $140,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFOUNDATIONS HEALTH & WHOLENESS INC: $130,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE RECOVERY COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $120,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetUNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $110,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBOOKWORM GARDENS INC: $110,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetTaproot Earth: $100,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $95,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSHEBOYGAN COUNTY FOOD BANK INC: $95,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetMKE URBAN STABLES INC: $90,000 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE COMMONWEALTH CLUB - WORLD AFFAIRS OF CALIFORNIA: $75,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSAFE HARBOR OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC: $60,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC: $55,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT SOUTH INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetURBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFORWARD THEATER COMPANY: $47,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetETV Endowment of South Carolina Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRENAISSANCE THEATERWORKS INC: $40,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetOUR COMMUNITY LTD: $39,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetHMONG MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION OF SHEBOYGAN INC: $30,000 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetSHARON S RICHARDSON COMMUNITY HOSPICE INC: $30,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMental Health America Lakeshore Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetNOURISH FARMS INC: $30,000 over 3y, 1.8% 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.

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.

Green Bay Packers Fou…Frank G & Frieda K Br…Greater Milwaukee Fou…Kohler Foundation IncHerbert H Kohl Charit…Hayssen Family Founda…Lakeshore Community F…United Way of Sheboyg…Alliant Energy Founda…Ruth St John & John D…Baird Foundation IncTerry Kohler Family F…
Green Bay Packers FoundationWI43.7× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Green Bay Packers Foundation · Frank G & Frieda K Brotz Family Foundation Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Kohler Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Hayssen Family Foundation Inc · Lakeshore Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Sheboygan County Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Ruth St John & John Dunham West Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Terry Kohler Family Foundation Inc

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 Wm Collins Kohler Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wm Collins Kohler Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%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 · 0–75%
    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.
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    How do I get to Wm Collins Kohler Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Wm Collins Kohler 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.

    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 108 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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