Wisconsin · Nonprofit
ABOVE & BEYOND CORPORATION
ABOVE & BEYOND CORPORATION (Wisconsin) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $564,890 to it, the largest being Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc ($181,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $809k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $565k
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Above & Beyond Corporation does
Mission
Above & beyond children's museum (abcm) fosters exploration, imagination, and joy through immersive, play-based learning for all children and families.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program and a significant change in how it conducts a program.
During 2024, above & beyond children's museum (abcm) expanded its early childhood and family engagement programs to meet growing community demand for accessible, play-based learning opportunities that promote social- emotional wellness and family connection. Building on its "play is healing" framework, abcm introduced new initiatives including the early childhood music programming and collab club, a partnership with the boys & girls club of sheboygan county providing after-school enrichment through hands-on stem and arts-based play. Collectively, these efforts served more than 5,000 children and caregivers across sheboygan county.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
During 2024, above & beyond children's museum underwent a comprehensive rebranding and mission update to better reflect its commitment to inclusive, community-centered, and play-based learning. The organization refined its guiding statement to emphasize fostering exploration, imagination, and joy through immersive play, and realigned program priorities under new strategic initiatives focused on access, inclusion, and family engagement. As part of this transition, abcm restructured and expanded existing programming to strengthen impact, improve alignment with community needs, and support long-term sustainability. These updates built on the museum's foundational work in early childhood education and family wellness while positioning it for continued growth and partnership across sheboygan county and beyond.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Education & community programs - abcm delivers year-round, play-based education for early learners and school-age children through toddler time, play labs, immersive storytime, camps, field trips, outreach, and "play is healing" activities that build social-emotional skills. In 2024, programs served 5,000+ young explorers, welcomed 1,077 field-trip learners, and engaged 80+ families in "make music with me,- and created connections to thousands of families through our community outreach programming exhibits, access, and museum operations abcm designs, maintains, and operates hands-on exhibits and inclusive play spaces that anchor learning through discovery. 2024 brought new/expanded exhibits-sunshine pinscreen, pegboard play, tree house, wonder workshop, and rhythms & rainbows-and sustained community access including 55,439 on- site visitors and 10,000+ users of the outdoor purple octopus playground. This work also includes facility upkeep and capital improvements that keep the museum safe, welcoming, and educational. Access & inclusion initiatives (museums for all; community collaborations) - program expense: included in program and exhibit totals to reduce cost barriers and…
$482,849 spent$196,982 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $482,849.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $1.9M to $1.1M (−42%).
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: 2020 14% · 2021 7% · 2022 2% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
73% of ABOVE & BEYOND CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $40k → $126k.
7 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% 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 ABOVE & BEYOND CORPORATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
ABOVE & BEYOND CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
90% 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 ABOVE & BEYOND CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 63% · 2020 48% · 2021 50% · 2022 45% · 2023 64% — broadly stable.
“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
25% of ABOVE & BEYOND CORPORATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
85% of ABOVE & BEYOND CORPORATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $85k that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $480k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Against its field
ABOVE & BEYOND CORPORATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,953 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,953 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like ABOVE & BEYOND CORPORATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the 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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ABOVE & BEYOND CORPORATION: 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 ABOVE & BEYOND CORPORATION?
- ABOVE & BEYOND CORPORATION (Wisconsin) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $564,890 to it, the largest being Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc ($181,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ABOVE & BEYOND CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $564,890 in grants to ABOVE & BEYOND CORPORATION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ABOVE & BEYOND CORPORATION?
- Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $181,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ABOVE & BEYOND CORPORATION 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 12 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing