Wisconsin · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF WEHR NATURE CENTER INC
FRIENDS OF WEHR NATURE CENTER INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $106,588 to it, the largest being WAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($33,046). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $675k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $107k
- Net assets
- $686k
What Friends of Wehr Nature Center Inc does
Mission
The friends of wehr is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the support and promotion of the wehr nature center and its environmental education programs. It provides financial support for every aspect of the center including natural areas stewardship, children's programming, special public events, summer interns, nature in the parks, live animals, and professional development.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Continue work towards accessibility to nature for all. Building expansion, including ada compliant restrooms and classroom spaces, outdoor boardwalk, amphitheater and benches throughout the nature center.
$13,766 spentof which $13,766 as grants11% of program spendingEducational programs for children and adults. Providing supplies, activities, and teachers.
$105,061 spent$40,679 earned by the program82% of program spendingInternships. Every summer the friends of wehr hires interns to assist in our educational programs for children and adults. It also provides practical, in-field experience for the interns.
$10,081 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $128,908.
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 $292k to $709k (+142%).
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 6% · 2018 2% · 2019 48% · 2020 3% · 2022 8% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of FRIENDS OF WEHR NATURE CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $50 → $19k.
6 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 WEHR NATURE 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 WEHR NATURE CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% 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
59% 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 WEHR NATURE CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 91% · 2020 100% · 2021 61% · 2022 50% · 2023 35% — 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.
How long its funders stay
40% of FRIENDS OF WEHR NATURE CENTER INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
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
59% of FRIENDS OF WEHR NATURE CENTER 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 $43k that is directly attributable, 63% of it comes from funders outside Wisconsin, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $63k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Against its field
FRIENDS OF WEHR NATURE CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like FRIENDS OF WEHR NATURE CENTER 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
45% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDS OF WEHR NATURE CENTER 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 FRIENDS OF WEHR NATURE CENTER INC?
- FRIENDS OF WEHR NATURE CENTER INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $106,588 to it, the largest being WAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($33,046). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF WEHR NATURE CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $106,588 in grants to FRIENDS OF WEHR NATURE CENTER INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF WEHR NATURE CENTER INC?
- WAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $33,046 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF WEHR NATURE 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.
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 12 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