Keller Family Charitable Trust
Madison, WI · EIN 39-1582385. Reported 68 grants totalling $535,680 to 41 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Keller Family Charitable Trust did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $3,000 and $7,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $200,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beaver Dam Area Community Foundation | Beaver Dam, WI | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Aldo Leopold Nature Center | Monona, WI | $26,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Beaver Dam Family Center Ice Arena | Beaver Dam, WI | $26,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Church Health Services | Beaver Dam, WI | $26,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Horizon High School | Madison, WI | $26,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Pave | Beaver Dam, WI | $26,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Rawhide Youth Services | New London, WI | $26,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| St Ambrose Academy | Madison, WI | $26,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| World Orphan Fund Inc | Randolph, WI | $26,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Beaver Dam Hockey Association | Beaver Dam, WI | $10,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Central Wisconsin | Delevan, WI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Gathering Source | Juneau, WI | $9,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Salvation Army | Madison, WI | $9,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Beaver Dam High School Scholarship Fund | Beaver Dam, WI | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hillsdale College | Hillsdale, MI | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lussier Community Education Center | Madison, WI | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Madison College | Madison, WI | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Neighborhood House Community Center | Madison, WI | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Opportunity International | Carol Stream, IL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Porchlight Inc | Madison, WI | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Prager University Foundation | Sherman Oaks, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| To Every Nation | Lake Zurich, IL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Yahara House | Madison, WI | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Beaver Dam High School | Beaver Dam, WI | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Habitat for Humanity of Dane County | Madison, WI | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Madison Starlings Youth Volleyball | Brodhead, WI | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Wisconsin Institute for Learning Disabilitiesdyslexia Inc (wildd) | Madison, WI | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Badger Institute | Milwaukee, WI | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Boy Scouts of America Glacier's Edge Council | Madison, WI | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cable Natural History Museum | Cable, WI | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cristo Rey Jesuit High School | Chicago, IL | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Dodge County Concert Association | Beaver Dam, WI | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Edchoice | Indianapolis, IN | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Edgewood High School | Madison, WI | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Exceptional Equestrians | De Pere, WI | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Goodman Community Center | Madison, WI | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Madison Reading Project | Madison, WI | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Madison Senior Center | Madison, WI | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Norwegian American Genealogical Center | Madison, WI | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Wisconsin Masonic Foundation | Dousman, WI | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Madison Children's Museum | Madison, WI | $1,680 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
10 of 41 (24%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 100%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Beaver Dam Area Community Foundation
NEW READING ROOM WITH FIREPLACE AT LIBRARY - Opportunity International
SUPPORT GLOBAL MICROFINANCE INITIATIVES - The Gathering Source
PROGRAM FACILITIES ENHANCEMENT PROJECT
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 44 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 8 | $40,000 | $5,000 |
| 2022 | 13 | $61,000 | $6,000 |
| 2023 | 10 | $61,000 | $7,000 |
| 2024 | 37 | $373,680 | $5,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 96% of this one's giving went to organizations in Wisconsin. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Wisconsin.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Keller Family Charitable Trust's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 448 W Washington Ave, Madison, WI, 53703. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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