Wisconsin · Nonprofit
BADGER BOYS STATE INCORPORATED
BADGER BOYS STATE INCORPORATED (Wisconsin) receives grants from 88 organizations whose IRS filings report $253,019 to it, the largest being RCU FOUNDATION INC ($20,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $291k
- Funders on record
- 88
- Grants received
- $253k
- Net assets
- $403k
What Badger Boys State Incorporated does
Mission
To provide the opportunity for young men to learn more about civic process of our state's government and the leadership that is required to build a community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Badger boys state holds an annual summer camp for seven days wherein 700-800 young men participate in a state and local government simulation exercise while taking classes in political science, ethics, sports leadership, parliamentary law, environmental studies and similar training programs. The program's sponsor is the american legion and various civic groups. The participants are high school seniors.
$300,288 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $300,288.
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 2018 to 2019, from $323k to $453k (+40%).
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.
96% of BADGER BOYS STATE INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Robert Batty
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $7k → $30k.
3 of 88 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 BADGER BOYS STATE INCORPORATED’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 88 funders by total. 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
BADGER BOYS STATE INCORPORATED has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 8% of grant income, and it takes 14 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 14 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 100% · 2019 94% · 2020 17% · 2021 10% · 2022 21% · 2023 24% — diversifying over time.
“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
22% of BADGER BOYS STATE INCORPORATED's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 27% 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
87% of BADGER BOYS STATE INCORPORATED's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
BADGER BOYS STATE INCORPORATED holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,482 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BADGER BOYS STATE INCORPORATED
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 BADGER BOYS STATE INCORPORATED: 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 BADGER BOYS STATE INCORPORATED?
- BADGER BOYS STATE INCORPORATED (Wisconsin) receives grants from 88 organizations whose IRS filings report $253,019 to it, the largest being RCU FOUNDATION INC ($20,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BADGER BOYS STATE INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 88 organizations giving $253,019 in grants to BADGER BOYS STATE INCORPORATED, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BADGER BOYS STATE INCORPORATED?
- RCU FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BADGER BOYS STATE INCORPORATED 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 88 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing