Wisconsin · Nonprofit
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 163 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,486,919 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($17,946,000). 109 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $34M
- Funders on record
- 163
- Grants received
- $47M
- Net assets
- $76M
What Boys and Girls Club of Greater Milwaukee Inc does
Mission
Boys & girls clubs of greater milwaukee was founded in 1887 by annabell cook withcomb and was named the boys busy life club in 1900. In 1984, membership was extended to girls and the organization become boys & girls clubs, making milwaukee one of the first club networks to do so. Today, bgcgm has 52 sites including camp whitcomb/mason in hartland, wi and serves 3500 youth daily by providing meals, safe spaces, access to role models and much more. Bgcgm's mission is to inspire and empower all young people, especially those that need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens. Club members receive programming in six core areas: education, arts, sports & recreation. Health & wellness, leadership & service, and social emotional development. Each area is driven by research from boys & girls clubs of america and the department of public instruction in order to provide our club members with the optimal club experience.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Club members receive programming in five core areas: essential skills which includes social emotional development, academic success, character and leadership, health and wellbeing, and life and workforce development. Each area is driven by research from boys & girls clubs of america and the department of public instruction in order to provide our club members with the optimal club experience.essential skills (social emotional development):social-emotional development refers to how young people's experiences at a boys & girls club help them build essential skills related to how they see themselves, interact with others, manage their emotions and solve problems. Building social-emotional skills facilitates young people's character development and lays a necessary foundation for skill building in other key outcome areas. At bgcgm. We think of social-emotional skills as a precursor that young people need to optimize their learning and help them develop other important skills. The term "social-emotional learning" is widely used in the education and youth development fields. We prefer the term "social-emotional development" for its precision and clarity. Because these terms have varied…
$22,978,667 spentof which $1,286,977 as grants$1,354,949 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $22,978,667.
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 2019 to 2020, from $56M to $64M (+13%).
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 21% · 2018 25% · 2019 34% · 2020 33% · 2021 36% · 2022 34% · 2023 54% · 2024 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
David Gay
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 46 funders to 73 funders, grant income rose $3.3M → $4.2M.
21 of 163 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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: $26M from 8 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC raised.
From the IRS filings of BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 163 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
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 38% 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
68% 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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 31% · 2019 18% · 2020 25% · 2021 29% · 2022 83% · 2023 30% — broadly stable.
“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
48% of BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE 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
52% of BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER 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 $23M that is directly attributable, 54% of it comes from funders outside Wisconsin, across 19 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 203 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 203 youth development nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10.6M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$9.0M
- Department of Education$930k
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$725k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE 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
Public support
93%
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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE 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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC?
- BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 163 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,486,919 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($17,946,000). 109 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC have?
- IRS filings report 163 organizations giving $47,486,919 in grants to BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC, 109 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $17,946,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER 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.
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 163 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