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Who funds youth development in Wisconsin

$435M reached 507 youth development organizations in Wisconsin, from 1,301 funders, with no single one dominating.

$435M
granted
507
organizations
66%
from in-state

The short version

Largest funders of youth development in Wisconsin

The funders giving the most to youth development organizations in Wisconsin, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc$50M2Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$23M3National Philanthropic Trust$19M4Boys & Girls Clubs of America$19M5Oshkosh Area Community Foundation Corporation$12M6Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc$10M7United Way of Dane County Inc$8M8United Way Fox Cities Inc$8M9Nancy Buck Ransom Foundation$8M10The Burke Foundation Inc$8M

Youth development organizations in Wisconsin that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

497 other youth development organizations$241M
Boys and Girls Club of Greater Milwaukee Inc$73MRawhide Inc$10M

How to find youth development funders in Wisconsin

  1. 1
    Start with the funders already active in Wisconsin

    The funders giving the most to youth development in Wisconsin are United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, National Philanthropic Trust. A funder already writing youth development checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.

  2. 2
    See who funds organizations like yours

    Open the youth development organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.

  3. 3
    Add the out-of-state funders reaching in

    34% of youth development money in Wisconsin comes from funders elsewhere, so national youth development funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Wisconsin.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a youth development nonprofit in Wisconsin?
Start with the funders already giving to youth development in Wisconsin, currently United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, National Philanthropic Trust. Then look at who funds the youth development organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Wisconsin from out of state.
Who is the largest youth development funder in Wisconsin?
United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc gives the most to youth development organizations in Wisconsin, $50M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to youth development in Wisconsin?
$435M reached 507 youth development organizations in Wisconsin, from 1,301 funders. 66% came from funders also based in Wisconsin.
How recent is this data?
It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines
Giving abroad
which US foundations fund each country

Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.