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GERMAN LANGUAGE & SCHOOL SOCIETY OF WI INC (DEUTSCHER SPRACH-UND SCHULVEREIN)
GERMAN LANGUAGE & SCHOOL SOCIETY OF WI INC (DEUTSCHER SPRACH-UND SCHULVEREIN) (Wisconsin) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,425 to it, the largest being GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC ($6,300). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $47k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $6k
- Net assets
- $406k
What German Language & School Society of Wi Inc (Deutscher Sprach-Und Schulverein) does
Mission
To promote and stimulate interest in and understanding of the german language and culture, by means of an annual german essay contest and providing small grants to german language teachers/school german departments.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To perform the organization's primary mission, it sponsors an annual german essay contest and provides small grants to german language teachers/school german departments. The contest is open to all students of all public and private high schools in the state of wisconsin who are currently enrolled in a german language course. In 2025, 553 students were tested for german language proficiency, of whom 291 students from 13 schools went on to submit essays to be judged based on content, grammar, and language proficiency.
$47,113 spentof which $41,494 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $47,113.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $554k to $428k (−23%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Marge Draheim
Essay contest chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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 GERMAN LANGUAGE & SCHOOL SOCIETY OF WI INC (DEUTSCHER SPRACH-UND SCHULVEREIN)’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
GERMAN LANGUAGE & SCHOOL SOCIETY OF WI INC (DEUTSCHER SPRACH-UND SCHULVEREIN) leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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
98% 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 GERMAN LANGUAGE & SCHOOL SOCIETY OF WI INC (DEUTSCHER SPRACH-UND SCHULVEREIN).
“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
98% of GERMAN LANGUAGE & SCHOOL SOCIETY OF WI INC (DEUTSCHER SPRACH-UND SCHULVEREIN)'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 $125 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Wisconsin, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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.
Organizations like GERMAN LANGUAGE & SCHOOL SOCIETY OF WI INC (DEUTSCHER SPRACH-UND SCHULVEREIN)
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
39%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GERMAN LANGUAGE & SCHOOL SOCIETY OF WI INC (DEUTSCHER SPRACH-UND SCHULVEREIN): 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 GERMAN LANGUAGE & SCHOOL SOCIETY OF WI INC (DEUTSCHER SPRACH-UND SCHULVEREIN)?
- GERMAN LANGUAGE & SCHOOL SOCIETY OF WI INC (DEUTSCHER SPRACH-UND SCHULVEREIN) (Wisconsin) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,425 to it, the largest being GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC ($6,300). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GERMAN LANGUAGE & SCHOOL SOCIETY OF WI INC (DEUTSCHER SPRACH-UND SCHULVEREIN) have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $6,425 in grants to GERMAN LANGUAGE & SCHOOL SOCIETY OF WI INC (DEUTSCHER SPRACH-UND SCHULVEREIN).
- Who is the largest funder of GERMAN LANGUAGE & SCHOOL SOCIETY OF WI INC (DEUTSCHER SPRACH-UND SCHULVEREIN)?
- GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GERMAN LANGUAGE & SCHOOL SOCIETY OF WI INC (DEUTSCHER SPRACH-UND SCHULVEREIN) 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 2 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