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CENTER FOR COMMUNITY STEWARDSHIP

CENTER FOR COMMUNITY STEWARDSHIP (Wisconsin) receives grants from 79 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,798,346 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,408,020). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$3.9M
Funders on record
79
Grants received
$6.8M
Net assets
$1.7M
34/79 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 38%
01What it does

What Center for Community Stewardship does

Mission

Our mission is to empower community-based organizations to build a more just and equitable society. We do this through fiscal sponsorship, coaching, training, and administrative support.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Rock county jumpstart held several entrepreneurial training cohorts and supported and coached entrepreneurs in rock county.

    $412,075 spentof which $27,468 as grants$2,700 earned by the program
    11% of program spending
  2. Healthtide held network meetings, hired a communications staffer, trained local and tribal health departments on policy, systems, and environmental change.

    $299,931 spentof which $150 as grants$12,804 earned by the program
    8% of program spending
  3. Natural circles of support worked with dane county schools to strengthen and stabilize relationships within the student body, between students and staff, and between families and the school.

    $298,352 spentof which $855 as grants$234,447 earned by the program
    8% of program spending
  4. Back 2 basics held a community celebration at pinseekers.

    $20,231 spent$1,951 earned by the program
    1% of program spending
  5. Core distributed funds to programs supporting individual and collective wellbeing, as well as coaching and advising services, and held 3 circle events.

    $89,485 spent$25 earned by the program
    2% of program spending
  6. Edot midwest hosted goldye steiner project grave marker fundraising and commemorative events, collaborated with university programs, and supported jewish social service organizations.

    $154,415 spentof which $8,700 as grants
    4% of program spending
  7. Eoto culturally rooted continued supporting black owned businesses and aspiring entrepreneurs and youth through the byaya! Program.

    $120,878 spent$4,200 earned by the program
    3% of program spending
  8. Homeless services consortium had their first homelessness awareness summit with over 100 attendees.

    $14,614 spent
    0% of program spending
  9. I am we global village focused on partnering with the madison metropolitan school district through their metro school, planning and delivering lessons as well as coaching and advising teachers and mentoring youth.

    $81,739 spent$10,224 earned by the program
    2% of program spending
  10. Just mindfulness continued to offer mindfulness in prisons including several courses and sessions throughout prison facilities.

    $35,099 spent
    1% of program spending
  11. Dane county youth action board supported the opening of dane county's first system navigation center for young people and supported the implementation of two brand new housing programs for young people.

    $100,736 spent$94 earned by the program
    3% of program spending
  12. Madison cooperative development coalition continued to support new cooperatives and provide public education on worker cooperatives, including partnering with the madison public library to deliver workshops.

    $146,251 spentof which $50,000 as grants
    4% of program spending
  13. Mann scholars continued to support 12 student scholars across madison schools to succeed in school and college.

    $66,963 spentof which $3,100 as grants
    2% of program spending
  14. Mi wisconsin continued to receive funds to support minority journalism and created the first syndicated content in spanish to help their community with their daily mental health issues.

    $84,081 spentof which $181 as grants$25,000 earned by the program
    2% of program spending
  15. Open foundation held their first annual career fair where almost 100 job seekers were assisted with resumes, interviews, and networking, an annual dinner to celebrate professional progress and highlight community achievements, and over 30 events for networking professionals.

    $15,723 spent$24,995 earned by the program
    0% of program spending
  16. Progress center for black women worked with entrepreneurs to strengthen their professional development and financial health, and also worked with numerous community members to help them access emergency housing and assistance.

    $201,558 spent$20,911 earned by the program
    5% of program spending
  17. Restorative places partnered with rooted to strengthen school garden partnerships in wisconsin. They also worked in partnership with early childhood providers in wisconsin on an innovative early care & education (ece) gardening & outdoor learning video series.

    $12,839 spent
    0% of program spending
  18. Seein' is believin' successfully hosted 4 youth mental health retreats and expanded violence prevention programming

    $46,121 spent
    1% of program spending
  19. Stoughton resettlement assistance program continued to support more than 20 families and individuals from venezuela and ukraine. And could become more financially stable.

    $29,815 spent$31 earned by the program
    1% of program spending
  20. The institute for collective wellbeing launched their discovering organizational wellbeing program, rolled out their unconditional accompaniment program, and worked with ten different organizations.

    $77,719 spent$80,697 earned by the program
    2% of program spending
  21. Tiyuv graduated three national joc cohorts, developed a robust etz chaim cre model, and launched new curriculum offerings like rooted and responsive.

    $245,107 spentof which $400 as grants$63,317 earned by the program
    6% of program spending
  22. Whoopensocker held numerous public performances and supported organizations in the community with its programming.

    $27,938 spent$1,448 earned by the program
    1% of program spending
  23. Wisconsin ecolatinos carried out outreach educational programs on pfas and plastic pollution, air quality, clean energy and energy efficiency and support as well as promoted planting trees.

    $35,825 spent$15,940 earned by the program
    1% of program spending
  24. Wisconsin green muslims held the 19th wisconsin green ramadan campaign, and educated about islamic environmental justice principles as they relate to climate, water, food, energy, air, waste reduction, and transportation.

    $276,029 spentof which $4,600 as grants$10,498 earned by the program
    7% of program spending
  25. Yafa continued to provide yoga classes at numerous community centers and to the staff at just bakery.

    $71,866 spent$38,014 earned by the program
    2% of program spending
  26. The badger project published 79 stories and won an award from the milwaukee press club in their journalism competition.

    $91,466 spent$764 earned by the program
    2% of program spending
  27. In 2024, the center for community strewardship provided accounting, capacity building, budgeting, and hr services to over 70 different fiscally sponsored organizations.

    $193,717 spentof which $19,391 as grants$352,464 earned by the program
    5% of program spending
  28. Open doors for refugees held their annual picnic, did esl mentoring, and orchestrated several moves, move-ins, and rides. They did workforce training and gave food cards to dozens of families.

    $101,971 spentof which $1,048 as grants$1,350 earned by the program
    3% of program spending
  29. Alliance for the 7th generation hosted our hiphop as healing festival for about 1200 people, talks at universities, and community events reaching about another 400 people.

    $255,414 spentof which $1,567 as grants
    7% of program spending
  30. The tiny sangha project doubled the number of its online small groups. They also hired two new small group facilitators.

    $84,929 spent
    2% of program spending
  31. Anesis provided free drop in health clinics across the madison region and well as crisis response counselling.

    $74,000 spentof which $74,000 as grants
    2% of program spending
  32. Midwest mujeres held their annual event in which they were able to highlight six women of color and their stories of surviving the gender wage gap. They were also highlighted on wisconsin public radio where a few of their members and stories were broadcast.

    $34,738 spent$2,000 earned by the program
    1% of program spending
  33. United madison continued to build awareness on the presence of sex trafficking in our community which was accomplished through media campaigns, group meetings and training sessions, and collaboration within the community.

    $32,640 spent
    1% of program spending

The 33 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,834,265.

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 ($607k) Expenses 100 ($424k) Net assets 100 ($285k)2018 Revenue 159 ($966k) Expenses 211 ($896k) Net assets 125 ($355k)2019 Revenue 199 ($1.2M) Expenses 233 ($989k) Net assets 200 ($571k)2020 Revenue 293 ($1.8M) Expenses 414 ($1.8M) Net assets 208 ($591k)2021 Revenue 595 ($3.6M) Expenses 628 ($2.7M) Net assets 539 ($1.5M)2022 Revenue 826 ($5.0M) Expenses 944 ($4.0M) Net assets 892 ($2.5M)2023 Revenue 723 ($4.4M) Expenses 1139 ($4.8M) Net assets 735 ($2.1M)2024 Revenue 645 ($3.9M) Expenses 1023 ($4.3M) Net assets 585 ($1.7M)
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Revenue (645)Expenses (1023)Net assets (585)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 $1.7M to $2.8M (+68%).

$329k
$411k
$628k
$703k
$1.7M
$2.8M
$2.3M
$1.9M
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2017 5% · 2018 24% · 2019 33% · 2020 19% · 2021 17% · 2022 26% · 2023 29% · 2024 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

75% of CENTER FOR COMMUNITY STEWARDSHIP’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (60% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,444 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$182k
’17
$70k
’18
$216k
’19
$20k
’20
$942k
’21
$1.0M
’22
−$447k
’23
−$426k
’24
3.4
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

Lisa Dugdale

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed9788881013
Joined·+0+1+1+0+0+4+4
No longer listed·2010021
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 34 funders, grant income rose $41k → $1.6M.

21 of 79 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 CENTER FOR COMMUNITY STEWARDSHIP’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 79 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

CENTER FOR COMMUNITY STEWARDSHIP has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left

65% 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 CENTER FOR COMMUNITY STEWARDSHIP.

21%
largest funder
37%
top three
~14
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 95% · 2019 67% · 2020 48% · 2021 32% · 2022 22% · 2023 19% — 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

47% of CENTER FOR COMMUNITY STEWARDSHIP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

CENTER FOR COMMUNITY STEWARDSHIP draws 73% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 17 states in all.

WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
DE
AZ
DC
OK
FL

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

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

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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

CENTER FOR COMMUNITY STEWARDSHIP has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,206 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−11% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)31% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,206 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 10%Fundraising 1%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

87%

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 CENTER FOR COMMUNITY STEWARDSHIP?
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY STEWARDSHIP (Wisconsin) receives grants from 79 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,798,346 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,408,020). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CENTER FOR COMMUNITY STEWARDSHIP have?
IRS filings report 79 organizations giving $6,798,346 in grants to CENTER FOR COMMUNITY STEWARDSHIP, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR COMMUNITY STEWARDSHIP?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,408,020 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CENTER FOR COMMUNITY STEWARDSHIP 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 79 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