Wisconsin · Nonprofit
BROWN COUNTY SHERIFFS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION
BROWN COUNTY SHERIFFS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION (Wisconsin) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,870 to it, the largest being GEORGE KRESS FOUNDATION INC ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $97k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $7k
- Net assets
- $161k
What Brown County Sheriffs Benevolent Association does
Mission
To provide financial help to the organization's members and the charitable organizations they belong to within brown county, wisconsin.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The organization is a fraternal organization made up of 150 member officers serving the brown county sheriff's department. During the year, the organization provided monetary relief, retirement gifts, bereavement, memorials and separation pay, and social activities for its members.
$71,871 spentof which $20,619 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $71,871.
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.
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 $23k to $125k (+444%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $600 → $100.
From the IRS filings of BROWN COUNTY SHERIFFS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION’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
BROWN COUNTY SHERIFFS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 95% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of BROWN COUNTY SHERIFFS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION'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.
Organizations like BROWN COUNTY SHERIFFS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BROWN COUNTY SHERIFFS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION: 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 BROWN COUNTY SHERIFFS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION?
- BROWN COUNTY SHERIFFS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION (Wisconsin) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,870 to it, the largest being GEORGE KRESS FOUNDATION INC ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BROWN COUNTY SHERIFFS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $6,870 in grants to BROWN COUNTY SHERIFFS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BROWN COUNTY SHERIFFS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION?
- GEORGE KRESS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BROWN COUNTY SHERIFFS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION 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 5 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