Wisconsin · Nonprofit
HARBOR DISTRICT INC
HARBOR DISTRICT INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,506,231 to it, the largest being GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC ($803,925). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
HARBOR DISTRICT INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 881 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 881 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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.
- Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Incshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Dorothy Inbusch Foundation Inclocalportfolio match
- Coles Family Foundation co Peter Colesportfolio match
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.
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: 2020 1% · 2021 24% · 2022 29% · 2023 49% · 2024 39% · 2025 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of HARBOR DISTRICT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $200k → $410k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 HARBOR DISTRICT 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
HARBOR DISTRICT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
89% 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 HARBOR DISTRICT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 38% · 2019 61% · 2020 54% · 2021 64% · 2022 42% · 2023 68% — growing more concentrated.
“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
38% of HARBOR DISTRICT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
58% of HARBOR DISTRICT 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 $1.0M that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from funders outside Wisconsin, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.
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. Your 10 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchWI · backs 44 organizations that share your funders · funds 86 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Dorothy Inbusch Foundation Inclocalportfolio matchWI · funds 69 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Coles Family Foundation co Peter Colesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Barbara Meyer Elsner Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lori and David Nicholas Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- ANTONIA FOUNDATION INCco F MICHAEL ARNOWportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alvin a Marion Birnschein Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nast Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brewers Community Foundation Incshared funderslocalWI · backs 55 organizations that share your funders · funds 97 organizations near you
- Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitableshared funderslocalWI · backs 55 organizations that share your funders · funds 86 organizations near you
- Nicholas Family Foundation Trustshared fundersWI · backs 29 organizations that share your funders
- Anon Charitable Trustshared funderslocalWI · backs 67 organizations that share your funders · funds 119 organizations near you
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.
Government funding HARBOR DISTRICT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $592k on record.
- Environmental Protection Agency$592k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like HARBOR DISTRICT INC
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
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 HARBOR DISTRICT 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds HARBOR DISTRICT INC?
- HARBOR DISTRICT INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,506,231 to it, the largest being GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC ($803,925). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HARBOR DISTRICT INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $2,506,231 in grants to HARBOR DISTRICT INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HARBOR DISTRICT INC?
- GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $803,925 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HARBOR DISTRICT 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 10funders 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