Wisconsin · Nonprofit
Advocates of Ozaukee Inc
Advocates of Ozaukee Inc (Wisconsin) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,749,007 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ($837,233). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $512k
What Advocates of Ozaukee Inc does
Mission
The Mission is to end domestic and sexual violence through education, prevention and intervention activities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Domestic Abuse Program Services The shelter is staffed 24-hours a day, seven days a week, and provies emergency shelter, food and transportation, crisis hotline counseling, mental health services including individual counseling/therapy, case management including legal advocacy, transitional living, support group counseling, accompaniment to hospitals for medical examinations, and other services to those domestic violence and sexual assult victims in need. The Organization operates the only shelter and program for domestic violence and sexual assault victims in Ozaukee county, a mixed rural and uban area however, clients come from Ozaukee County as well as the Greater Milwaukee area.
$687,398 spent$68,021 earned by the program57% of program spendingSexual Assault Victims Services The Wisconsin Department of Justice awarded a grant to the Organization to begin sexual assault victims services in 2000. The Organizaiton became the sexual assault services provider for Ozaukee County. Since that time, the sexual assault program has grown significantly through additional funding from local foundations and corporations. The program includes prevention programs to children and teens, intervention services, medical and legal accompaniment, protective parent advocacy for children victims and counseling.
$337,612 spent28% of program spendingChildrens Program Services The Organization has always believed that children are the silent victims of domestic violence in their homes. For that reason, the Organization created a trauma informed comprehensive program to support children whether they are in the shelter or in the community. Children have their own advocate who works with them and the family to discuss their fears and what they need to start feeling safe again. The program includes one on one counseling, if desired, two childrens groups a year, and a strong program in all Ozaukee County schools to provide information and prevention strategies to children. The Organization also works with children who have experienced sexual assault and provides all the above services to them and their family.
$184,062 spent15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,209,072.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.5M to $435k (−72%).
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 49% · 2018 50% · 2019 53% · 2020 45% · 2021 42% · 2022 53% · 2023 67% · 2024 67% · 2025 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of Advocates of Ozaukee Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Barbara Fischer
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $158k → $167k.
3 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 Advocates of Ozaukee Inc’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
Advocates of Ozaukee Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
92% 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 Advocates of Ozaukee Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 76% · 2019 91% · 2020 47% · 2021 40% · 2022 30% · 2023 60% — 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
25% of Advocates of Ozaukee Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
96% of Advocates of Ozaukee 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. $167k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Advocates of Ozaukee Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Advocates of Ozaukee Inc
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
94% 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 Advocates of Ozaukee 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 Advocates of Ozaukee Inc?
- Advocates of Ozaukee Inc (Wisconsin) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,749,007 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ($837,233). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Advocates of Ozaukee Inc have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,749,007 in grants to Advocates of Ozaukee Inc, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Advocates of Ozaukee Inc?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $837,233 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Advocates of Ozaukee 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 23 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