Wisconsin · Nonprofit
APPLETON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
APPLETON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,647,890 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($375,606). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Appleton Education Foundation Inc does
Mission
To creatively enhance education in the community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Awarded grants totaling over $342,000 to support educational projects and programs benefiting appleton area school district students and staff members, as well as the community. Early childhood development & kindergarten readiness, as well as career based learning continue to be key interest areas. More than $5 million awarded since 1997.
$506,517 spentof which $342,573 as grants$975 earned by the program80% of program spendingRented office space to the appleton area school district.
$124,858 spent$270,158 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $631,375.
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 2022 to 2023, from $8.5M to $11M (+30%).
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 5% · 2018 2% · 2019 3% · 2020 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 2% · 2023 1% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
43% of APPLETON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (93% 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.
Chief executive
Julie Krause
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $87k → $237k.
10 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $6k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Appleton Education Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money APPLETON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of APPLETON EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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
APPLETON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
89% 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 APPLETON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 39% · 2019 44% · 2020 51% · 2021 30% · 2022 46% · 2023 42% — 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
55% of APPLETON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
69% of APPLETON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC'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 $514k that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from funders outside Wisconsin, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
APPLETON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like APPLETON EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 9 related entities
- The Boldt Family Fund Inc · exempt
- Robert and Patricia Endries Family Foundation Ltd · exempt
- Women's Fund for the Fox Valley Region Inc · exempt
- Community Real Estate and Personal Property Foundation Inc · exempt
- The William J and Barbara a Schmidt Family Foundation Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for APPLETON EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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 APPLETON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC?
- APPLETON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,647,890 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($375,606). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does APPLETON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,647,890 in grants to APPLETON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of APPLETON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $375,606 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like APPLETON EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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.
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 21 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