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CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF LA CROSSE INC

CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF LA CROSSE INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,036,273 to it, the largest being GLENDENNING FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($228,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$905k
Funders on record
24
Grants received
$1.0M
Net assets
$5.1M
15/24 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 32%
01What it does

What Children's Museum of la Crosse Inc does

Mission

To provide a hands-on, interactive environment for all children and a family place where the young and the young at heart can explore, create, experiment and exercise their imaginations.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The childrens museum is a place of hands on learning for children and their adult companions. Educationally based exhibits offer fun and learning through fine and gross motor skills, reasoning, pretend play and more. Families, school groups and other visitors can learn and play at their own pace, cooperatively or individually at a variety of stations and exhibits.

    $379,714 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $379,714.

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 ($2.3M) Expenses 100 ($642k) Net assets 100 ($5.1M)2018 Revenue 28 ($642k) Expenses 106 ($680k) Net assets 95 ($4.9M)2019 Revenue 26 ($595k) Expenses 120 ($771k) Net assets 96 ($4.9M)2020 Revenue 19 ($429k) Expenses 81 ($523k) Net assets 97 ($5.0M)2021 Revenue 33 ($745k) Expenses 76 ($491k) Net assets 103 ($5.3M)2022 Revenue 32 ($725k) Expenses 112 ($721k) Net assets 96 ($4.9M)2023 Revenue 36 ($804k) Expenses 135 ($866k) Net assets 98 ($5.0M)2024 Revenue 40 ($905k) Expenses 142 ($913k) Net assets 100 ($5.1M)
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Revenue (40)Expenses (142)Net assets (100)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 $5.4M to $5.0M (−7%).

$5.2M
$5.0M
$5.1M
$5.1M
$5.4M
$5.0M
$5.3M
$5.3M
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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: 2020 23% · 2021 42% · 2022 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

34% of CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF LA CROSSE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.6M
’17
−$38k
’18
−$176k
’19
−$94k
’20
$254k
’21
$4k
’22
−$63k
’23
−$8k
’24
2.6
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.

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Listed1317161514131416
Joined·+5+3+3+1+1+4+5
No longer listed·1442233
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 11 funders to 10 funders, grant income fell $257k → $189k.

3 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF LA CROSSE 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

CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF LA CROSSE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

22%
largest funder
50%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 19% · 2018 49% · 2019 58% · 2020 43% · 2021 35% · 2022 25% · 2023 66% — 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.

How long its funders stay

35% of CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF LA CROSSE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

76% of CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF LA CROSSE INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.

MN
WI
NY
MA
VA
NC

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

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Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $109k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF LA CROSSE INC's revenue fell 60% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve2.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−12% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF LA CROSSE INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

42% of spending goes to programs.

Program 42%Management 53%Fundraising 5%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

91%

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 CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF LA CROSSE INC?
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF LA CROSSE INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,036,273 to it, the largest being GLENDENNING FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($228,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF LA CROSSE INC have?
IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $1,036,273 in grants to CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF LA CROSSE INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF LA CROSSE INC?
GLENDENNING FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $228,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF LA CROSSE 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 24 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