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BENEDICTINE LIFE FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC

BENEDICTINE LIFE FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $476,682 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($185,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$1.2M
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$477k
Net assets
$1.3M
9/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%
01What it does

What Benedictine Life Foundation of Wisconsin Inc does

Mission

Support for benedictine women of madison, inc.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Distribution to benedictine women of madison, inc.

    $311,300 spentof which $311,300 as grants
    86% of program spending
  2. Other program expenses include cost of special events through out the year.

    $51,688 spent
    14% of program spending
  3. Other program expenses include cost of special event through out the year.

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $362,988.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($739k) Expenses 100 ($617k) Net assets 100 ($850k)2018 Revenue 83 ($615k) Expenses 133 ($820k) Net assets 76 ($646k)2019 Revenue 82 ($604k) Expenses 140 ($866k) Net assets 79 ($670k)2020 Revenue 116 ($858k) Expenses 116 ($715k) Net assets 96 ($813k)2021 Revenue 149 ($1.1M) Expenses 228 ($1.4M) Net assets 60 ($507k)2022 Revenue 116 ($857k) Expenses 129 ($794k) Net assets 67 ($570k)2023 Revenue 119 ($881k) Expenses 115 ($710k) Net assets 87 ($741k)2024 Revenue 158 ($1.2M) Expenses 94 ($580k) Net assets 156 ($1.3M)
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Revenue (158)Expenses (94)Net assets (156)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 2023 to 2024, from $741k to $1.3M (+79%).

$896k
$725k
$785k
$813k
$513k
$572k
$741k
$1.3M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

98% of BENEDICTINE LIFE FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,735 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$122k
’17
−$204k
’18
−$262k
’19
$143k
’20
−$306k
’21
$62k
’22
$171k
’23
$587k
’24
9.6
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.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.

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Listed33388444
Joined·+0+0+6+2+0+1+0
No longer listed·0012410
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $32k → $53k.

7 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 91% 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 BENEDICTINE LIFE FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN 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

BENEDICTINE LIFE FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

91% 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 BENEDICTINE LIFE FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC.

39%
largest funder
82%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 86% · 2019 54% · 2020 43% · 2021 56% · 2022 53% · 2023 56% — 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

36% of BENEDICTINE LIFE FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

91% of BENEDICTINE LIFE FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN 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 $43k that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from Wisconsin funders.

WI
MI
NJ
NC

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

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’23
Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $434k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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

BENEDICTINE LIFE FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,394 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin50% · top quartile
Months of reserve9.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,394 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like BENEDICTINE LIFE FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC

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In Wisconsin

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

63% of spending goes to programs.

Program 63%Management 12%Fundraising 25%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Benedictine Women of Madison Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds BENEDICTINE LIFE FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC?
BENEDICTINE LIFE FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $476,682 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($185,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does BENEDICTINE LIFE FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $476,682 in grants to BENEDICTINE LIFE FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BENEDICTINE LIFE FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC?
The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $185,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BENEDICTINE LIFE FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN 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 15 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