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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.

$47k
Revenue FY2025
2
Funders on record
$6k
Grants received
$406k
Net assets
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($48k) Expenses 100 ($35k) Net assets 100 ($545k)2018 Revenue 116 ($56k) Expenses 118 ($41k) Net assets 93 ($507k)2019 Revenue 49 ($24k) Expenses 103 ($36k) Net assets 103 ($561k)2020 Revenue 62 ($30k) Expenses 180 ($63k) Net assets 101 ($552k)2021 Revenue 116 ($56k) Expenses 195 ($68k) Net assets 102 ($554k)2022 Revenue 52 ($25k) Expenses 173 ($61k) Net assets 78 ($428k)2023 Revenue 45 ($22k) Expenses 188 ($66k) Net assets 77 ($420k)2024 Revenue 98 ($48k) Expenses 194 ($68k) Net assets 75 ($412k)2025 Revenue 97 ($47k) Expenses 157 ($55k) Net assets 74 ($406k)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (97)Expenses (157)Net assets (74)

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

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$13k
17
$15k
18
$13k
19
$33k
20
$12k
21
$36k
22
$44k
23
$21k
24
$8k
25
0.4
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'21
'24*
total
funders
1
1

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).

98%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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.

CT

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.

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.

Organizations like GERMAN LANGUAGE & SCHOOL SOCIETY OF WI INC (DEUTSCHER SPRACH-UND SCHULVEREIN)

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

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 15%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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 2funders 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