Wisconsin · Nonprofit
EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN WISCONSIN INC
EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN WISCONSIN INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $483 to it, the largest being XCEL ENERGY FOUNDATION ($240). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2019
- $77k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $483
- Net assets
- $12k
What Epilepsy Foundation of Western Wisconsin Inc does
Mission
The epilepsy foundation of western wisconsin is dedicated to leading the fight to stop seizures and sudep, finding a cure, and overcoming the challanenges created by epilepsy through efforts including education, advocacy, and research to accelerate new ideas into therapies.
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The foundation is always looking for ways to benefit our new clients developement, our client service program strive to resolve some of the challanges assicuated with epilepsy. The foundation also teaches skills in coping and accepting the disorder by providing support not only from the foundation but also from peers. Advocay assists cients to learn their rights with regard to their disability. Case management also assists in providing services to the person as a whole instead of just the disorder. Our community education program provides epilepsy specific infromation to employers, schools, caregivers, and professionals. Community education programs offer in-service training to teachers, police, emts, businesses, school medical professionals, and to the community. We also offer workplace education seminars to assist employers in their understanding of epilepsy and employees with seizure disorders.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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 2018 to 2019, from $17k to $13k (−24%).
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.
100% of EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN WISCONSIN INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $108 → $49.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN WISCONSIN 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
EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN WISCONSIN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
40% 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 EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN WISCONSIN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 54% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN WISCONSIN INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $193 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
EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN WISCONSIN INC's revenue fell 31% between 2017 and 2019.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,586 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2019
Organizations like EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN WISCONSIN 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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN WISCONSIN INC?
- EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN WISCONSIN INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $483 to it, the largest being XCEL ENERGY FOUNDATION ($240). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN WISCONSIN INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $483 in grants to EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN WISCONSIN INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN WISCONSIN INC?
- XCEL ENERGY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $240 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN WISCONSIN 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 FY2019 (financials across 2017–2019), 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