Wisconsin · Nonprofit
DOWNTOWN JANESVILLE INC
DOWNTOWN JANESVILLE INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $90,326 to it, the largest being Forward Foundation Inc ($40,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $175k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $90k
- Net assets
- $246k
What Downtown Janesville Inc does
Mission
Downtown Janesville Inc works to promote economic development, encourage the preservation of historic buildings, and increase opportunities for activities in the downtown. Downtown Janesville Inc goals include business retention, expansion, renovation, historic rehabilitation and redevelopment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Focuses on capital, incentives, and other economic and financial tools to assist new and existing businesses, catalyze property development, and create a supportive environment for entrepreneurs and innovators that drive local economies.
$26,107 spent$500 earned by the program66% of program spendingSupports a community's transformation by enhancing the physical and visual assets that set the commercial district apart. The committee decorates the downtown for a variety of season using funding from dji and the bid. Focus is on the roth pavilion, jp cullen pavilion, main street, and milwaukee street. Committee oversees clean-up activities within the downtown and oversees the winter window decorating contest.
$13,583 spent34% of program spendingPositions the downtown as a destination; maintains the integrity of the destination downtown brand; and creates a positive image that showcases the downtowns unique characteristics. Program maintains, updates and solicits sponsorships for downtownjanesville.com; coordinates the design and production of promotional materials, as the budget allows.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $39,690.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $109k to $199k (+83%).
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: 2022 17% · 2023 4% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
26% of DOWNTOWN JANESVILLE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5 → $31k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 DOWNTOWN JANESVILLE 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
DOWNTOWN JANESVILLE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
61% 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 DOWNTOWN JANESVILLE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 97% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of DOWNTOWN JANESVILLE INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $76 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
DOWNTOWN JANESVILLE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like DOWNTOWN JANESVILLE 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
22% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DOWNTOWN JANESVILLE 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 DOWNTOWN JANESVILLE INC?
- DOWNTOWN JANESVILLE INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $90,326 to it, the largest being Forward Foundation Inc ($40,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DOWNTOWN JANESVILLE INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $90,326 in grants to DOWNTOWN JANESVILLE INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DOWNTOWN JANESVILLE INC?
- Forward Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DOWNTOWN JANESVILLE 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 6 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