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HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WISCONSIN RIVER AREA INC

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WISCONSIN RIVER AREA INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $982,125 to it, the largest being HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ($602,602). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.2M
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$982k
Net assets
$2.1M
8/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%
01What it does

What Habitat for Humanity of Wisconsin River Area Inc does

Mission

Build/remodel homes sold at favorable terms to qualified low-income individuals. Also, to operate two retail restore outlets to sell donated building materials.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Habitat for humanity of wisconsin river area, inc. Constructs homes using volunteer labor and sells them at favorable terms to eligible low-income families. Habitat serves existing homeowners through is critical home repair program. This program provides critical home repairs, focusing on safety, security, accessibility and weatherization, in partnership with low-income homeowners.

    $469,576 spent$265,020 earned by the program
    58% of program spending
  2. Habitat for humanity restores sell donate home improvement materials to the public at discontinued prices. All the proceeds from restores benefit the mission of habitat for humanity of wisconsin river area, inc.

    $346,045 spent$444,613 earned by the program
    42% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $815,621.

02The 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 ($1.3M) Expenses 100 ($1.2M) Net assets 100 ($1.8M)2018 Revenue 100 ($1.3M) Expenses 106 ($1.2M) Net assets 104 ($1.9M)2020 Revenue 76 ($991k) Expenses 100 ($1.2M) Net assets 96 ($1.7M)2021 Revenue 120 ($1.6M) Expenses 116 ($1.3M) Net assets 108 ($1.9M)2022 Revenue 84 ($1.1M) Expenses 88 ($1.0M) Net assets 111 ($2.0M)2023 Revenue 141 ($1.8M) Expenses 178 ($2.1M) Net assets 99 ($1.8M)2024 Revenue 109 ($1.4M) Expenses 115 ($1.3M) Net assets 103 ($1.8M)2025 Revenue 95 ($1.2M) Expenses 86 ($998k) Net assets 116 ($2.1M)
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Revenue (95)Expenses (86)Net assets (116)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $2.3M to $2.5M (+8%).

$2.3M
$2.3M
$2.3M
$2.4M
$2.5M
$2.3M
$2.3M
$2.5M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 10% · 2018 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$137k
’17
$73k
’18
−$171k
’20
$205k
’21
$72k
’22
−$234k
’23
$76k
’24
$231k
’25
4.7
months of
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.

Chief executive

Morgan Pfaff

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed1313141512131110
Joined·+1·+1+1+2+2+0
No longer listed·1·04141
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $26k → $188k.

3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WISCONSIN RIVER AREA 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

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WISCONSIN RIVER AREA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

91% 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 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WISCONSIN RIVER AREA INC.

61%
largest funder
76%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 85% · 2021 99% · 2022 43% · 2023 81% — 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

80% of HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WISCONSIN RIVER AREA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WISCONSIN RIVER AREA INC draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 5 states in all.

MN
WI
OH
DC
GA

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

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’21
’22
’23
Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $90k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WISCONSIN RIVER AREA 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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 13%Fundraising 5%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited 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

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Questions and answers

Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WISCONSIN RIVER AREA INC?
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WISCONSIN RIVER AREA INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $982,125 to it, the largest being HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ($602,602). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WISCONSIN RIVER AREA INC have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $982,125 in grants to HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WISCONSIN RIVER AREA INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WISCONSIN RIVER AREA INC?
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC is the largest funder on record, with $602,602 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WISCONSIN RIVER AREA 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 13 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