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Basics In Milwaukee Inc

Basics In Milwaukee Inc (Wisconsin) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $315,365 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($130,013). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$203k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$315k
Net assets
$126k
7/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 14%
01What it does

What Basics In Milwaukee Inc does

Mission

Brother and sisters in Christ serving through practical acts of compassion, empowering disciples, prayer, and evangelism.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.

Chamber of Faith - a collaboration of entrepreneurs, businesses, and organizations seeking to build a spiritually thriving community.

Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).

  1. Ministers to Milwaukee - We had 9 ministers serving throughout the Milwaukee area visiting schools regularly serving meals, reaching thousands of people through media, providing chapel services for MPD officers, visiting inmates in WI prisons to preach and disciple, and ministered to women caught in human trafficking.

    $94,618 spent
    66% of program spending
  2. Chamber of Faith - Designed to bring together 3 facets of the faith- based community - Business Leaders, Non-profit leaders and Church Leaders to stop viewing each other as competition and instead collaborate to build Gods kingdom, leverage our organizations niche. We host networking gatherings, educational seminars and volunteer opportunities all designed to steward the resources weve been given

    $49,163 spent$5,569 earned by the program
    34% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $143,781.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($394k) Expenses 100 ($431k) Net assets 100 ($199k)2020 Revenue 93 ($368k) Expenses 87 ($377k) Net assets 96 ($190k)2021 Revenue 96 ($381k) Expenses 86 ($371k) Net assets 100 ($199k)2022 Revenue 71 ($282k) Expenses 79 ($340k) Net assets 71 ($141k)2023 Revenue 60 ($237k) Expenses 55 ($239k) Net assets 70 ($139k)2024 Revenue 52 ($203k) Expenses 50 ($217k) Net assets 63 ($126k)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (52)Expenses (50)Net assets (63)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $199k to $141k (−29%).

$205k
$190k
$199k
$141k
$142k
$126k
201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

97% of Basics In Milwaukee Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$37k
’19
−$9k
’20
$9k
’21
−$58k
’22
−$2k
’23
−$14k
’24
6.9
months of
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

Nick Galezewski

Executive Director

Board chair

Steven Hartl

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

201920202021202220232024
Listed8891088
Joined·+0+3+4+3+4
No longer listed·02354
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $14k → $26k.

5 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 Basics In Milwaukee 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

Basics In Milwaukee Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

74% 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 Basics In Milwaukee Inc.

41%
largest funder
80%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 43% · 2019 45% · 2020 48% · 2021 32% · 2022 54% · 2023 38% — 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

67% of Basics In Milwaukee Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 88% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

67% of Basics In Milwaukee 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 $105k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Wisconsin funders.

WI

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $210k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Basics In Milwaukee Inc is better cushioned than half of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−7% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve6.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−12% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

66% of spending goes to programs.

Program 66%Management 26%Fundraising 8%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

82%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

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Questions and answers

Who funds Basics In Milwaukee Inc?
Basics In Milwaukee Inc (Wisconsin) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $315,365 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($130,013). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Basics In Milwaukee Inc have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $315,365 in grants to Basics In Milwaukee Inc, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Basics In Milwaukee Inc?
NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $130,013 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Basics In Milwaukee 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 8 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