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FOX-WOLF WATERSHED ALLIANCE INC

FOX-WOLF WATERSHED ALLIANCE INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $676,861 to it, the largest being GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC ($268,224). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$1.7M
Revenue FY2024
7
Funders on record
$677k
Grants received
$402k
Net assets
5/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 14%

Against its field

FOX-WOLF WATERSHED ALLIANCE INC's revenue grew 43% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve3.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 481 science & tech nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($1.2M) Expenses 100 ($1.2M) Net assets 100 ($132k)2018 Revenue 129 ($1.5M) Expenses 128 ($1.6M) Net assets 99 ($131k)2019 Revenue 126 ($1.5M) Expenses 125 ($1.5M) Net assets 108 ($142k)2020 Revenue 130 ($1.6M) Expenses 132 ($1.6M) Net assets 90 ($119k)2021 Revenue 127 ($1.5M) Expenses 110 ($1.3M) Net assets 248 ($327k)2022 Revenue 133 ($1.6M) Expenses 130 ($1.6M) Net assets 276 ($364k)2023 Revenue 136 ($1.6M) Expenses 137 ($1.7M) Net assets 263 ($348k)2024 Revenue 143 ($1.7M) Expenses 138 ($1.7M) Net assets 304 ($402k)
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Revenue (143)Expenses (138)Net assets (304)Peer revenue range

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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 76% · 2018 83% · 2019 85% · 2020 82% · 2021 80% · 2022 76% · 2023 71% · 2024 80%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

86% of FOX-WOLF WATERSHED ALLIANCE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (68% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 500 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$3k
17
$731
18
$11k
19
$23k
20
$208k
21
$37k
22
$17k
23
$54k
24
3.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $53k → $139k.

3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)56% 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 FOX-WOLF WATERSHED ALLIANCE 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

FOX-WOLF WATERSHED ALLIANCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

87% 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 FOX-WOLF WATERSHED ALLIANCE INC.

40%
largest funder
79%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 0% · 2020 55% · 2021 99% · 2022 71% · 2023 90%diversifying over time.

“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

56% of FOX-WOLF WATERSHED ALLIANCE 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 $297k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from funders outside Wisconsin, across 4 states.

IL
WI
MI
DC

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

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22
23
Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $380k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 7 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding FOX-WOLF WATERSHED ALLIANCE INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.4M on record.

Federal$6.4M
grants $6.4Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Environmental Protection Agency$5.7M
  • Department of the Interior$694k
  • Department of Agriculture$25k

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 FOX-WOLF WATERSHED ALLIANCE INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Wisconsin

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 5%Fundraising 3%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOX-WOLF WATERSHED ALLIANCE 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds FOX-WOLF WATERSHED ALLIANCE INC?
FOX-WOLF WATERSHED ALLIANCE INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $676,861 to it, the largest being GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC ($268,224). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FOX-WOLF WATERSHED ALLIANCE INC have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $676,861 in grants to FOX-WOLF WATERSHED ALLIANCE INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FOX-WOLF WATERSHED ALLIANCE INC?
GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $268,224 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FOX-WOLF WATERSHED ALLIANCE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 7funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing