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COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,512,291 to it, the largest being RIVERLAND CONSERVANCY INC ($750,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$4.9M
Funders on record
18
Grants received
$1.5M
Net assets
$15M
7/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 32%
01What it does

What Community Foundation of South Central Wisconsin Inc does

Mission

Encourage, solicit, and administer gifts, bequests, donations, etc. And evaluate proposals from other non-profit charitable organizations involved in community improvement projects intended to promote the betterment of the baraboo area.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Evaluate proposals from other charitable non-profit organizations involved in community improvement projects and distribute funds for approved projects.

    $1,099,842 spent$-1,654,420 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,099,842.

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 ($1.2M) Expenses 100 ($770k) Net assets 100 ($6.1M)2018 Revenue 93 ($1.1M) Expenses 108 ($829k) Net assets 100 ($6.1M)2019 Revenue 47 ($559k) Expenses 90 ($696k) Net assets 98 ($6.0M)2020 Revenue 118 ($1.4M) Expenses 112 ($865k) Net assets 102 ($6.2M)2021 Revenue 387 ($4.6M) Expenses 75 ($579k) Net assets 172 ($11M)2022 Revenue 49 ($583k) Expenses 272 ($2.1M) Net assets 147 ($9.0M)2023 Revenue 290 ($3.5M) Expenses 107 ($822k) Net assets 191 ($12M)2024 Revenue 410 ($4.9M) Expenses 225 ($1.7M) Net assets 242 ($15M)
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Revenue (410)Expenses (225)Net assets (242)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 2018 to 2019, from $6.1M to $9.9M (+61%).

$6.1M
$6.1M
$9.9M
$11M
$12M
$10M
$13M
$17M
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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

57% of COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,052 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.

$421k
’17
$280k
’18
−$137k
’19
$540k
’20
$4.0M
’21
−$1.5M
’22
$2.6M
’23
$3.1M
’24
36
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

Robin Whyte

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed1714151616161716
Joined·+0+3+1+4+0+2+4
No longer listed·3204015
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $200k → $40k.

7 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 16 of 18 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

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

38% 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC.

50%
largest funder
69%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 57% · 2019 55% · 2020 93% · 2021 85% · 2022 97% · 2023 62% — 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

13% of COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

97% of COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.

WI
NY
IN
OH
MO
DE

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. $537k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin65% · top quartile
Months of reserve36.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)22% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Wisconsin

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 6%Fundraising 2%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

68%

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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,512,291 to it, the largest being RIVERLAND CONSERVANCY INC ($750,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $1,512,291 in grants to COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC?
RIVERLAND CONSERVANCY INC is the largest funder on record, with $750,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC find more funders?
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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 18 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