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COMMUNITY REFERRAL AGENCY INC

COMMUNITY REFERRAL AGENCY INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $851,669 to it, the largest being Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation ($230,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$926k
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$852k
Net assets
$1.3M
11/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%
01What it does

What Community Referral Agency Inc does

Mission

The organization is dedicated to empowerment of battered victims and their children, and therefore is committed to eliminate domestic and sexual violence and its negative effects in our community by providing shelter and services that promote peace, justice and safety. Community referral agency provides community based temporary emergency shelter, a 24/7 crisis hotline, advocacy with community resources, support groups, referral and information, and community presentations regarding awareness and education.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. For 2025, community referral agency provided the following: 2,763 crisis/counseling calls, 459 information/referrals, 6,383 personal advocacy calls, and provided food and safe shelter to 41 adults and 19 children over 2,905 bed nights and provided 10,715 meals. Advocacy was provided to 219 adults and 77 children with 274 follow-ups. The direct service transportation provided was 19,996 miles in 2025.

    $651,092 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $651,092.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($677k) Expenses 100 ($590k) Net assets 100 ($493k)2018 Revenue 106 ($718k) Expenses 108 ($636k) Net assets 117 ($576k)2019 Revenue 109 ($737k) Expenses 113 ($666k) Net assets 131 ($647k)2020 Revenue 99 ($669k) Expenses 113 ($668k) Net assets 131 ($649k)2021 Revenue 122 ($825k) Expenses 116 ($685k) Net assets 160 ($788k)2022 Revenue 117 ($789k) Expenses 121 ($712k) Net assets 175 ($865k)2023 Revenue 135 ($912k) Expenses 136 ($801k) Net assets 198 ($976k)2024 Revenue 140 ($946k) Expenses 129 ($761k) Net assets 235 ($1.2M)2025 Revenue 137 ($926k) Expenses 137 ($808k) Net assets 261 ($1.3M)
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Revenue (137)Expenses (137)Net assets (261)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.0M to $1.2M (+21%).

$525k
$602k
$678k
$730k
$817k
$903k
$1.0M
$1.2M
$1.3M
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 70% · 2018 63% · 2019 61% · 2020 67% · 2021 63% · 2022 61% · 2023 54% · 2024 69% · 2025 61%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$87k
’17
$82k
’18
$72k
’19
$1k
’20
$139k
’21
$77k
’22
$111k
’23
$185k
’24
$118k
’25
14
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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Listed1198899788
Joined·+2+1+2+2+1+0+2+0
No longer listed·42211210
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $2k → $131k.

2 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 REFERRAL AGENCY 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

COMMUNITY REFERRAL AGENCY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

31% 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 REFERRAL AGENCY INC.

27%
largest funder
65%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 63% · 2020 39% · 2021 29% · 2022 35% · 2023 34% — 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

75% of COMMUNITY REFERRAL AGENCY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 85% 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

COMMUNITY REFERRAL AGENCY INC draws 73% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 3 states in all.

ID
MN
WI

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

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’20
’21
’22
’23
Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $76k 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

Organizations like COMMUNITY REFERRAL AGENCY 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

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 18%Fundraising 1%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

95%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 2 states

MN
WI

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Questions and answers

Who funds COMMUNITY REFERRAL AGENCY INC?
COMMUNITY REFERRAL AGENCY INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $851,669 to it, the largest being Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation ($230,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COMMUNITY REFERRAL AGENCY INC have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $851,669 in grants to COMMUNITY REFERRAL AGENCY INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY REFERRAL AGENCY INC?
Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $230,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COMMUNITY REFERRAL AGENCY 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 13 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing