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JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER INC
JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,215,722 to it, the largest being FREDERIC CORNELL KOHLER CHARITABLE TRUST ($2,776,892). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER INC's funding base is broadening — from 13 funders to 19 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of Sheboygan County Inclocal
- Association of Performing Arts Professionalsportfolio match
- Harpo Foundation Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 0% · 2020 7% · 2021 3% · 2022 0% · 2023 8% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
36% of JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $1.0M → $1.3M.
8 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $41M from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Kohler Trust For The Arts And Education). These are real filings, and they are not money JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER INC raised.
From the IRS filings of JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 52% · 2019 26% · 2020 25% · 2021 31% · 2022 59% · 2023 65% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
59% of JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
74% of JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 47 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Way of Sheboygan County InclocalWI · funds 27 organizations near you
- Association of Performing Arts Professionalsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Harpo Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Victory Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Richard J Stern Foundation for the Arts Commerce Bank Trusteeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Copaken Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cec Artslink Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Donald and Donna Baumgartner Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Master Craftsmen Foundation 103916portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hayssen Family Foundation InclocalWI · funds 28 organizations near you
- Brewers Community Foundation Incshared fundersWI · backs 45 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $225k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$225k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
36%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Kohler Trust for Preservation · exempt
- Kohler Trust for the Arts and Education · exempt
- Frederic Cornell Kohler Charitable Trust · exempt
- Creation and Preservation Partners Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER INC?
- JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,215,722 to it, the largest being FREDERIC CORNELL KOHLER CHARITABLE TRUST ($2,776,892). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $9,215,722 in grants to JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER INC, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER INC?
- FREDERIC CORNELL KOHLER CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $2,776,892 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 47funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing