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FRIENDS OF MACKENZIE ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER INC

FRIENDS OF MACKENZIE ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being ENDRES MANUFACTURING FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$61k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$20k
Net assets
$472k
0/3 repeat funders
01What it does

What Friends of Mackenzie Environmental Center Inc does

Mission

To help and promote environmental education at the mackenzie environmental center and provide scholarships to students in natural resource.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Fall festival fund raising

    $11,712 spent
    40% of program spending
  2. Gift shop

    $5,866 spent
    20% of program spending
  3. Scholarships

    $11,406 spentof which $6,611 as grants
    39% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $28,984.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($75k) Expenses 100 ($30k) Net assets 100 ($345k)2024 Revenue 199 ($148k) Expenses 140 ($42k) Net assets 131 ($451k)2025 Revenue 82 ($61k) Expenses 132 ($40k) Net assets 137 ($472k)
202320242025
Revenue (82)Expenses (132)Net assets (137)

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $345k to $451k (+31%).

$345k
$451k
$472k
202320242025
Total assets

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.

2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$45k
’23
$106k
’24
$21k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2018: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $15k.

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 FRIENDS OF MACKENZIE ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER 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

FRIENDS OF MACKENZIE ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% 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

25% 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 FRIENDS OF MACKENZIE ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER INC.

50%
largest funder
100%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 67% — 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

100% of FRIENDS OF MACKENZIE ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.

WI

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

’17
’18
Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k 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

Organizations like FRIENDS OF MACKENZIE ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER INC

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In Wisconsin

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds FRIENDS OF MACKENZIE ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER INC?
FRIENDS OF MACKENZIE ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being ENDRES MANUFACTURING FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FRIENDS OF MACKENZIE ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $20,000 in grants to FRIENDS OF MACKENZIE ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER INC.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF MACKENZIE ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER INC?
ENDRES MANUFACTURING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDS OF MACKENZIE ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER 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 2023–2025), 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