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FOUNDATION FOR THE ENDOWMENT OF THE AMERICAN BIRKEBEINER INC

FOUNDATION FOR THE ENDOWMENT OF THE AMERICAN BIRKEBEINER INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $142,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($82,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$259k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$142k
Net assets
$1.6M
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 25%
01What it does

What Foundation for the Endowment of the American Birkebeiner Inc does

Mission

Ensuring the future of the american birkebeiner

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To solicit and accept gifts, grants, bequests, and other contributions, and administer their allocation for activities conducted by the absf

    $60,580 spentof which $28,581 as grants$1 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $60,580.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($25k) Expenses 100 ($1k) Net assets 100 ($24k)2018 Revenue 1603 ($406k) Expenses 1088 ($14k) Net assets 1730 ($416k)2019 Revenue 940 ($238k) Expenses 1500 ($19k) Net assets 2916 ($701k)2020 Revenue 594 ($150k) Expenses 3392 ($44k) Net assets 3361 ($807k)2021 Revenue 1555 ($394k) Expenses 4567 ($59k) Net assets 4754 ($1.1M)2022 Revenue 269 ($68k) Expenses 2153 ($28k) Net assets 4199 ($1.0M)2023 Revenue 266 ($67k) Expenses 2166 ($28k) Net assets 4766 ($1.1M)2024 Revenue 185 ($47k) Expenses 5640 ($73k) Net assets 5272 ($1.3M)2025 Revenue 1024 ($259k) Expenses 4868 ($63k) Net assets 6770 ($1.6M)
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Revenue (1024)Expenses (4868)Net assets (6770)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 2017 to 2018, from $24k to $416k (+1634%).

$24k
$416k
$701k
$807k
$1.2M
$1.0M
$1.2M
$1.3M
$1.6M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of FOUNDATION FOR THE ENDOWMENT OF THE AMERICAN BIRKEBEINER INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$24k
’17
$392k
’18
$219k
’19
$107k
’20
$335k
’21
$40k
’22
$39k
’23
−$26k
’24
$196k
’25
1.3
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.

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Listed7998781313
Joined·+2+0+2+0+3+5+1
No longer listed·0031201
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2022: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $101k → $16k.

3 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 FOUNDATION FOR THE ENDOWMENT OF THE AMERICAN BIRKEBEINER 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

FOUNDATION FOR THE ENDOWMENT OF THE AMERICAN BIRKEBEINER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% 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

100% 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 FOUNDATION FOR THE ENDOWMENT OF THE AMERICAN BIRKEBEINER INC.

58%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 50% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 63% — 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

100% of FOUNDATION FOR THE ENDOWMENT OF THE AMERICAN BIRKEBEINER 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $142k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states 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

FOUNDATION FOR THE ENDOWMENT OF THE AMERICAN BIRKEBEINER INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin76% · top quartile
Months of reserve1.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)34% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 1%Fundraising 3%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

37%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

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Questions and answers

Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE ENDOWMENT OF THE AMERICAN BIRKEBEINER INC?
FOUNDATION FOR THE ENDOWMENT OF THE AMERICAN BIRKEBEINER INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $142,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($82,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FOUNDATION FOR THE ENDOWMENT OF THE AMERICAN BIRKEBEINER INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $142,000 in grants to FOUNDATION FOR THE ENDOWMENT OF THE AMERICAN BIRKEBEINER INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FOUNDATION FOR THE ENDOWMENT OF THE AMERICAN BIRKEBEINER INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $82,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FOUNDATION FOR THE ENDOWMENT OF THE AMERICAN BIRKEBEINER 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.

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 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