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Kathy's House Inc

Kathy's House Inc (Wisconsin) receives grants from 79 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,013,450 to it, the largest being FOTSCH FAMILY FOUNDATION ($840,000). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.5M
Funders on record
79
Grants received
$4.0M
Net assets
$10M
50/79 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 48%
01What it does

What Kathy's House Inc does

Mission

Kathys House is a hospital guest house committed to providing affordable lodging and caring support in a home away from home environment for patients and their families who need to travel to Milwaukee for medical care

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Kathys house is non-profit Guest House that provides lodging and a supportive environment to families who are experiencing personal illness or the serious illness of a loved one. It is a caring place where guests can eat, sleep and be with others when they want -or be alone when they need time, introspection and quiet healing. Kathys House opened in 2001 and provides over 11,000 nights of lodging and caring support each year to 1,500 guests. Amenities include shuttle service to local hospitals, a community kitchen, library, fitness center and meditation room. 65 of guest are here because of cancer diagnosis, 45 of guests are patients, and 55 are family members/caregivers for someone who is receiving medical treatment in a Milwaukee hospital. 74 of guest are Wisconsin residents. With few exceptions, guests must live at least 50 miles outside of Milwaukee.

    $1,493,295 spent$410,724 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,493,295.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($2.8M) Expenses 100 ($801k) Net assets 100 ($9.7M)2020 Revenue 54 ($1.5M) Expenses 105 ($840k) Net assets 107 ($10M)2021 Revenue 92 ($2.6M) Expenses 207 ($1.7M) Net assets 118 ($11M)2022 Revenue 45 ($1.3M) Expenses 207 ($1.7M) Net assets 114 ($11M)2023 Revenue 48 ($1.4M) Expenses 221 ($1.8M) Net assets 111 ($11M)2024 Revenue 53 ($1.5M) Expenses 245 ($2.0M) Net assets 108 ($10M)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (53)Expenses (245)Net assets (108)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $9.7M to $12M (+23%).

$9.7M
$12M
$12M
$11M
$11M
$11M
201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 5% · 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

70% of Kathy's House Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,611 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$2.0M
’19
$695k
’20
$966k
’21
−$363k
’22
−$411k
’23
−$442k
’24
6.5
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Kim Lamansky started 2024

President CEO

Board chair

Nikki Panico

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

201920202021202220232024
Listed282821202020
Joined·+0+4+1+3+3
No longer listed·011233
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 35 funders, grant income rose $107k → $469k.

16 of 79 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of Kathy's House Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 79 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

Kathy's House Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

30% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Kathy's House Inc.

21%
largest funder
40%
top three
~13
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 19% · 2018 49% · 2019 71% · 2020 52% · 2021 22% · 2022 27% · 2023 36% — growing more concentrated.

“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

57% of Kathy's House Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

92% of Kathy's House Inc's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Kathy's House Inc is better cushioned than half of the 8,121 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−29% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve6.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−12% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 10%Fundraising 14%

Governance

18
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

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Questions and answers

Who funds Kathy's House Inc?
Kathy's House Inc (Wisconsin) receives grants from 79 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,013,450 to it, the largest being FOTSCH FAMILY FOUNDATION ($840,000). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Kathy's House Inc have?
IRS filings report 79 organizations giving $4,013,450 in grants to Kathy's House Inc, 50 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Kathy's House Inc?
FOTSCH FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $840,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Kathy's House 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.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 79 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing