Wisconsin · Nonprofit
CHAIN EXPLORATION CENTER INC
CHAIN EXPLORATION CENTER INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being Project Lead the Way Inc ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $28k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $32k
What Chain Exploration Center Inc does
Mission
Chain Exploration Inc. manages and operates a district instrumentality 4K-8th grades charter school and a community garden. The school with students and staff include approximately 170 people. The garden serves a wider community and is included in the curriculum, serving over 500 people with donor recipients and volunteers.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The organization maintains and manages a district instrumentality charter school as well as a community garden on the school grounds that is used in curriculum planning as well as service learning opportunities. The school is a project-based, multiage setting serving kids 4K- 8th grades. Current enrollment is approximately 159. The curriculum has four focal points; environmental education, the Fine Arts, and STEM. Students engage in a variety of student led projects with guidance from the advisors (teachers). Literacy and Math are taught using the legacy model during the mornings; science and social studies are in the afternoon during project time with the inclusion of the focal points. The garden is approximately .5 acres; produce that is not used in the curriculum is donated to local donation sites. Each year thousands of pounds of produce are donated. Students are active in all stages of the garden from planning to donating.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $22k to $32k (+45%).
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.
100% of CHAIN EXPLORATION CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 CHAIN EXPLORATION CENTER 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
CHAIN EXPLORATION CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 CHAIN EXPLORATION CENTER INC.
“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
50% of CHAIN EXPLORATION CENTER 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 $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Wisconsin, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
CHAIN EXPLORATION CENTER INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 21,859 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
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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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHAIN EXPLORATION CENTER INC?
- CHAIN EXPLORATION CENTER INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being Project Lead the Way Inc ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHAIN EXPLORATION CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $20,000 in grants to CHAIN EXPLORATION CENTER INC.
- Who is the largest funder of CHAIN EXPLORATION CENTER INC?
- Project Lead the Way Inc is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHAIN EXPLORATION CENTER 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 2 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