Wisconsin · Nonprofit
EDESSA SCHOOL OF FASHION INC
EDESSA SCHOOL OF FASHION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,525 to it, the largest being GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $32k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $28k
- Net assets
- $36k
What Edessa School of Fashion Inc does
Mission
Nonprofit college
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Edessa received approval from the state in 2020 to start conducting classes. Most of fiscal year ended June 30 2021 was used to gear up for these classes which started with a small class in fiscal year June 30 2022. The class size increased some in 2023 but the classes remained small.
$24,199 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $24,199.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $127k to $111k (−13%).
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. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Una Van Duvall
Chair
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $20k → $25.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% 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 EDESSA SCHOOL OF FASHION 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
EDESSA SCHOOL OF FASHION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% 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
73% 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 EDESSA SCHOOL OF FASHION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 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
73% of EDESSA SCHOOL OF FASHION INC'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 $8k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Wisconsin funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k 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.
Organizations like EDESSA SCHOOL OF FASHION 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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EDESSA SCHOOL OF FASHION 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds EDESSA SCHOOL OF FASHION INC?
- EDESSA SCHOOL OF FASHION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,525 to it, the largest being GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does EDESSA SCHOOL OF FASHION INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $27,525 in grants to EDESSA SCHOOL OF FASHION INC.
- Who is the largest funder of EDESSA SCHOOL OF FASHION INC?
- GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EDESSA SCHOOL OF FASHION 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.
Play a game about who funds Edessa School of Fashion →
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 4 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