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CHIPPEWA VALLEY THEATRE GUILD INC

CHIPPEWA VALLEY THEATRE GUILD INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,800 to it, the largest being EAU CLAIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($10,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$702k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$28k
Net assets
$885k
3/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%
01What it does

What Chippewa Valley Theatre Guild Inc does

Mission

The organizations mission is to produce a broad spectrum of high quality theatrical presentations, delight and challenge the audience, provide hands-on learning experiences in all aspects of theatre production for children and adults to nurture and celebrate their achievements.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization puts on live performances to achieve the goals. Admissions are charged and ads sold.

    $253,863 spent$701,612 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $253,863.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($239k) Expenses 100 ($235k) Net assets 100 ($233k)2019 Revenue 97 ($232k) Expenses 98 ($230k) Net assets 101 ($235k)2020 Revenue 69 ($165k) Expenses 78 ($183k) Net assets 93 ($217k)2021 Revenue 122 ($292k) Expenses 55 ($130k) Net assets 163 ($379k)2022 Revenue 128 ($305k) Expenses 108 ($255k) Net assets 185 ($430k)2023 Revenue 109 ($260k) Expenses 105 ($247k) Net assets 190 ($443k)2024 Revenue 111 ($265k) Expenses 111 ($262k) Net assets 192 ($446k)2025 Revenue 294 ($702k) Expenses 112 ($262k) Net assets 380 ($885k)
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Revenue (294)Expenses (112)Net assets (380)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 2024 to 2025, from $519k to $952k (+83%).

$359k
$351k
$346k
$500k
$524k
$515k
$519k
$952k
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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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 3% · 2019 3% · 2020 14% · 2021 60% · 2022 24% · 2023 7% · 2024 4% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

73% of CHIPPEWA VALLEY THEATRE GUILD INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$4k
’18
$2k
’19
−$18k
’20
$162k
’21
$51k
’22
$13k
’23
$3k
’24
$439k
’25
33
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

Ann Sessions

Exec director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Joined·+5+1+3+6+3+3+3
No longer listed·0322734
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $17k → $2k.

2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 CHIPPEWA VALLEY THEATRE GUILD 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

CHIPPEWA VALLEY THEATRE GUILD INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

37% 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 CHIPPEWA VALLEY THEATRE GUILD INC.

36%
largest funder
92%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 60% · 2021 87% · 2022 86% · 2023 98% — 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

54% of CHIPPEWA VALLEY THEATRE GUILD INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.

MN
WI

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

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’21
’22
’23
Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CHIPPEWA VALLEY THEATRE GUILD INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin63% · top quartile
Months of reserve32.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)17% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like CHIPPEWA VALLEY THEATRE GUILD INC

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In Wisconsin

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 2%Fundraising 1%

Governance

11
board members
91%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

53%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds CHIPPEWA VALLEY THEATRE GUILD INC?
CHIPPEWA VALLEY THEATRE GUILD INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,800 to it, the largest being EAU CLAIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($10,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CHIPPEWA VALLEY THEATRE GUILD INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $27,800 in grants to CHIPPEWA VALLEY THEATRE GUILD INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHIPPEWA VALLEY THEATRE GUILD INC?
EAU CLAIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 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 CHIPPEWA VALLEY THEATRE GUILD 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), 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