Wisconsin · Nonprofit
DANE COUNTY CONSERVATION LEAGUE
DANE COUNTY CONSERVATION LEAGUE (Wisconsin) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,431 to it, the largest being NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION OF ($16,331). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $94k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $16k
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Dane County Conservation League does
Mission
Conserve now, that the future may live!
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Dane County Conservation League (dccl) was established back in 1933 by a group of individuals interested in protecting and improving wildlife habitat and fisheries in dane county, wisconsin. Dccl continues to serve as one of wisconsin's oldest volunteer nonprofit organizations dedicated to the mission of conservation. Dccl members raise manchurian pheasants and bob-white quail, participate in the annual fishing expo, and complete watershed and habitat improvement projects. Volunteers construct nesting structures for wood ducks, bluebirds, bats, and wrens; distribute and plant trees; and sponsor and lead wisconsin dnr hunter education safety courses. Dccl funds scholarships for students pursuing environmental education and holds annual fundraising events including banquets, raffles, and golf outings. Members also engage in recreational shooting sports such as skeet and trap. The league has been recognized as "conservationist of the year and actively partners with the upper sugar river watershed association to build lunkers and restore stream banks. Dccl manages approximately 4,300 acres of habitat restoration area in coordination with the wisconsin dnr, purchased castle marsh…
$51,466 spentof which $34,524 as grants$8,197 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $51,466.
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.
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 $2.7M to $2.2M (−17%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $6k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 DANE COUNTY CONSERVATION LEAGUE’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
DANE COUNTY CONSERVATION LEAGUE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 DANE COUNTY CONSERVATION LEAGUE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 91% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of DANE COUNTY CONSERVATION LEAGUE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $50 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Wisconsin funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k 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.
Organizations like DANE COUNTY CONSERVATION LEAGUE
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
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
27%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DANE COUNTY CONSERVATION LEAGUE: 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 DANE COUNTY CONSERVATION LEAGUE?
- DANE COUNTY CONSERVATION LEAGUE (Wisconsin) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,431 to it, the largest being NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION OF ($16,331). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DANE COUNTY CONSERVATION LEAGUE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $16,431 in grants to DANE COUNTY CONSERVATION LEAGUE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DANE COUNTY CONSERVATION LEAGUE?
- NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION OF is the largest funder on record, with $16,331 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DANE COUNTY CONSERVATION LEAGUE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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