Wisconsin · Nonprofit
FAMILY FORUM INC
FAMILY FORUM INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,850 to it, the largest being JOHN R FLANAGAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($38,850). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.6M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $54k
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Family Forum Inc does
Mission
We are dedicated to preparing children and their families for success; through high quality programming, family support and wellness education, while fostering meaningful relationships.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Child education:family forum provides head start and early head start services in northern wisconsin. We partner with families and communities to provide a strong support network for low-income families of children zero to five years of age. The services include center-based preschool experiences which serves 290 three to five year old children. Early head start home-based program provides services to 84 children ages birth to 3 years of age, including prenatal women. Early head start center-based program serves 16 children ages 6 weeks to 36 months.
$3,007,259 spent$105,131 earned by the program53% of program spendingExtended hours:family forum offers an extended hour preschool program, which increases the program hours for children from 4 hours a day to 7.5 hours. The data is showing 3-year old children are making stronger academic gains when in a structured program with a longer period.
$2,460,484 spent44% of program spendingFood programs:program that provides food for all children enrolled in our program from ages 6 weeks to 5 years.
$166,110 spent3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,633,853.
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 2023 to 2024, from $2.8M to $3.9M (+41%).
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: 2017 93% · 2018 94% · 2019 95% · 2020 91% · 2021 94% · 2022 97% · 2023 99% · 2024 96% · 2025 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of FAMILY FORUM INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Jeanne Myer
Executive director
Board chair
Denise Schmitz-Enking
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of FAMILY FORUM 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
FAMILY FORUM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% 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
“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
FAMILY FORUM 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. 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
FAMILY FORUM INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding FAMILY FORUM INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $48.9M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$48.9M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like FAMILY FORUM 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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FAMILY FORUM 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 FAMILY FORUM INC?
- FAMILY FORUM INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,850 to it, the largest being JOHN R FLANAGAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($38,850). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FAMILY FORUM INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $53,850 in grants to FAMILY FORUM INC.
- Who is the largest funder of FAMILY FORUM INC?
- JOHN R FLANAGAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $38,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAMILY FORUM 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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