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FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH ENDOWMENT TRUST

FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH ENDOWMENT TRUST (Wisconsin) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,230,708 to it, the largest being GEHIN CLAIRE LANGSTADT TR ($408,525). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$254k
Funders on record
19
Grants received
$1.2M
Net assets
$5.6M
13/19 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 56%
01What it does

What First Congregational Church Endowment Trust does

Mission

Provide financial support to enable the first congregational church to meet its operational and religous activities in the community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Applied towards compensation of church officers and costs of senior pastor search/interviews and miscellaneous administration functions

    $52,540 spentof which $52,540 as grants
    26% of program spending
  2. Used to cover expenses of assorted mission trips for back bay mission, hs mission, kenya partnership trip and to assist local prgrams to improve family needs through habitat for humanity, leaven, pillars, empty to full program

    $89,596 spentof which $89,596 as grants
    45% of program spending
  3. Applied toward parking upgrades, window replacements and improvements, electrical upgrades and other miscellaneous building maintenance expenses

    $57,139 spentof which $57,139 as grants
    29% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $199,275.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($179k) Expenses 100 ($192k) Net assets 100 ($4.7M)2021 Revenue 418 ($749k) Expenses 99 ($190k) Net assets 112 ($5.2M)2022 Revenue 194 ($348k) Expenses 102 ($196k) Net assets 115 ($5.4M)2023 Revenue 150 ($269k) Expenses 107 ($206k) Net assets 117 ($5.5M)2024 Revenue 172 ($308k) Expenses 96 ($184k) Net assets 119 ($5.6M)2025 Revenue 142 ($254k) Expenses 133 ($255k) Net assets 119 ($5.6M)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (142)Expenses (133)Net assets (119)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $4.7M to $5.2M (+12%).

$4.7M
$5.2M
$5.4M
$5.5M
$5.6M
$5.6M
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH ENDOWMENT TRUST’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,342 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$13k
’20
$559k
’21
$152k
’22
$63k
’23
$124k
’24
−$979
’25
4.8
months of
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.

20202021202220242025
Listed88888
Joined·+3+2·+0
No longer listed·32·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $51k → $100k.

1 of 19 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 FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH ENDOWMENT TRUST’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

FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH ENDOWMENT TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

33%
largest funder
69%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 47% · 2019 48% · 2020 49% · 2021 49% · 2022 55% · 2023 57% — 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.

How long its funders stay

71% of FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH ENDOWMENT TRUST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

65% of FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH ENDOWMENT TRUST's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.

MN
IL
WI

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $375 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH ENDOWMENT TRUST's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 12 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−0% · below the median
Months of reserve4.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,850 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH ENDOWMENT TRUST

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 22%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH ENDOWMENT TRUST: 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 FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH ENDOWMENT TRUST?
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH ENDOWMENT TRUST (Wisconsin) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,230,708 to it, the largest being GEHIN CLAIRE LANGSTADT TR ($408,525). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH ENDOWMENT TRUST have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,230,708 in grants to FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH ENDOWMENT TRUST, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH ENDOWMENT TRUST?
GEHIN CLAIRE LANGSTADT TR is the largest funder on record, with $408,525 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH ENDOWMENT TRUST 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 19 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing