Wisconsin · Nonprofit
CONFLUENCE COUNCIL INC
CONFLUENCE COUNCIL INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,500,303 to it, the largest being PABLO FOUNDATION INC ($3,152,541). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.3M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $4.5M
- Net assets
- $-1195210
What Confluence Council Inc does
Mission
The purpose of the organization is to provide a premier fine and performing arts venue to highlight the talents of local and university artists, musicians, and performers; to engage the public in educational and experimental programming to enhance understanding, enjoyment and participation in the arts; to present a wide variety of cultural, entertainment, and other artistic offerings to the community; and to operate in a fiscally responsible manner.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Confluence council offers the region a facility capable of providing transformative training, learning and creative opportunities. Inside, guests, local partners, and artists experience a 1,200+ seat theatre and an approximately 400-seat flexible theatre; three rehearsal, dance and community rooms; visual arts galleries; labs for sound and lighting, set and exhibit design, recording arts, multimedia production and costume design; and spaces equipped to support vocational training initiatives.
$6,051,780 spentof which $87,230 as grants$4,353,733 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,051,780.
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 2022 to 2023, from $3.5M to $13M (+273%).
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: 2021 28% · 2022 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
31% of CONFLUENCE COUNCIL INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $6k → $754k.
8 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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: $1.7M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Eau Claire Area Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money CONFLUENCE COUNCIL INC raised.
From the IRS filings of CONFLUENCE COUNCIL 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
CONFLUENCE COUNCIL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
26% 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 CONFLUENCE COUNCIL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 32% · 2020 96% · 2021 86% · 2022 90% · 2023 67% — 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
40% of CONFLUENCE COUNCIL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
94% of CONFLUENCE COUNCIL INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
CONFLUENCE COUNCIL INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CONFLUENCE COUNCIL 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Eau Claire Confluence Arts Inc · exempt
- Eau Claire Confluence Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CONFLUENCE COUNCIL INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CONFLUENCE COUNCIL INC?
- CONFLUENCE COUNCIL INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,500,303 to it, the largest being PABLO FOUNDATION INC ($3,152,541). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CONFLUENCE COUNCIL INC have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $4,500,303 in grants to CONFLUENCE COUNCIL INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONFLUENCE COUNCIL INC?
- PABLO FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,152,541 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONFLUENCE COUNCIL 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.
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 21 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