Wisconsin · Nonprofit
CHARLES ALLIS AND VILLA TERRACE MUSEUMS INC
CHARLES ALLIS AND VILLA TERRACE MUSEUMS INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $231,747 to it, the largest being GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC ($178,758). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $957k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $232k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Charles Allis and Villa Terrace Museums Inc does
Mission
Charles allis and villa terrace museums, inc. Advances the missions of the cultural assets under its stewardship by providing management, programming, and development services.charles allis art museum:the charles allis art museum enriches milwaukee's quality of life by creating opportunities for residents and visitors to experience history, culture, and the arts, in particular by offering vibrant exhibitions and performances in a stately and intimate urban mansion, which permanently houses the art collection of early 20th-century industrialist charles allis.villa terrace decorative arts museum:the villa terrace decorative arts museum enriches milwaukee's quality of life by creating opportunities for residents and visitors to experience history, culture, and the arts, in particular by offering vibrant exhibitions and performances in the grand yet intimate setting of the lloyd smith family's lakefront renaissance villa and garden.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Charles allis art museum, inc. Stewards the historic charles allis home and its art collection. Bequeathed to the citizens of milwaukee by their original owener - charles and sarah allis. To educates, inspire and delight. The family played a prominent role in the early development of milwaukees industrial, artistic and civic life. The home is listed on the national register of historic places and is designated by the city of milwaukee, milwukee county and numerous arts and cultural organizations for its continued significance to milwaukees historic, cultural and artistic life. Through interpretation of the home and the collection, and through collaboration with the community, the museum seeks knowledge and understanding of societal, cultural, artistic,stewaradship by providing manatement, programming and development operations for the museum.
$226,130 spent$11,743 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $226,130.
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 2018 to 2019, from $437k to $679k (+55%).
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 35% · 2018 38% · 2019 29% · 2020 51% · 2021 42% · 2022 25% · 2023 27% · 2024 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
38% of CHARLES ALLIS AND VILLA TERRACE MUSEUMS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Marquayla S Ellison
Board chair/executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $17k → $81k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% 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: $13k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Villa Terrace Museum and Gardens Ltd). These are real filings, and they are not money CHARLES ALLIS AND VILLA TERRACE MUSEUMS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of CHARLES ALLIS AND VILLA TERRACE MUSEUMS 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
CHARLES ALLIS AND VILLA TERRACE MUSEUMS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
80% 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 CHARLES ALLIS AND VILLA TERRACE MUSEUMS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 98% · 2021 99% · 2022 63% · 2023 75% — 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
29% of CHARLES ALLIS AND VILLA TERRACE MUSEUMS INC's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 25% 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
80% of CHARLES ALLIS AND VILLA TERRACE MUSEUMS 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 $47k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $185k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
CHARLES ALLIS AND VILLA TERRACE MUSEUMS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like CHARLES ALLIS AND VILLA TERRACE MUSEUMS INC
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In Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHARLES ALLIS AND VILLA TERRACE MUSEUMS INC?
- CHARLES ALLIS AND VILLA TERRACE MUSEUMS INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $231,747 to it, the largest being GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC ($178,758). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHARLES ALLIS AND VILLA TERRACE MUSEUMS INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $231,747 in grants to CHARLES ALLIS AND VILLA TERRACE MUSEUMS INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHARLES ALLIS AND VILLA TERRACE MUSEUMS INC?
- GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $178,758 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHARLES ALLIS AND VILLA TERRACE MUSEUMS 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 8 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