Wisconsin · Nonprofit
BADGER HISTORY GROUP
BADGER HISTORY GROUP (Wisconsin) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,239 to it, the largest being WISCONSIN HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC ($6,589). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $64k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $14k
- Net assets
- $179k
What Badger History Group does
Mission
Education of the histories of Badger Army Ammunition Plant and the Sauk Prairie. Purpose includes a public museum, website, public lectures and plant tours.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Museum & Archives- Operates a 4,800 sf museum and archival storage with 2,500 visitors per year. Archives include 45,000 artifacts, photos and history files. Museum is open 30 hours per week. Facilities available for personal historic research.
$24,157 spentof which $928 as grants73% of program spendingWebsite - Developed and maintained a responsive, interactive, specifically developed historic website that had 15,000 hits during the year.
$6,000 spent18% of program spendingLectures & Tours - Museum tours were given as needed 30 hours per week. There were nine monthly historic lectures with interactive internet access given to 500 people. Several off site lectures were made. Six plant site tours were given.
$3,000 spent9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $33,157.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $45k to $150k (+230%).
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.
91% of BADGER HISTORY GROUP’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $400 → $2k.
From the IRS filings of BADGER HISTORY GROUP’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
BADGER HISTORY GROUP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
46% 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 BADGER HISTORY GROUP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 71% · 2022 82% · 2023 67% — 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.
Where its funders are
98% of BADGER HISTORY GROUP's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 HISTORY GROUP runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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In Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
45%
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 HISTORY GROUP: 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 HISTORY GROUP?
- BADGER HISTORY GROUP (Wisconsin) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,239 to it, the largest being WISCONSIN HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC ($6,589). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BADGER HISTORY GROUP have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $14,239 in grants to BADGER HISTORY GROUP, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BADGER HISTORY GROUP?
- WISCONSIN HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,589 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BADGER HISTORY GROUP 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 4 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