Wisconsin · Nonprofit
HILLEL FOUNDATION UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN INC
HILLEL FOUNDATION UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,975,305 to it, the largest being HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ($992,437). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $4.0M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Hillel Foundation University of Wisconsin Inc does
Mission
Hillel, the jewish student center at the university of wisconsin-madison, serves over 5,000 jewish students and faculty. Hillel provides a home and support to various independent student organizations. Every expression of jewish life is represented: religious, cultural, political, traditional and alternative. Hillel enables university of wisconsin jewish students to have a voice in their community - one that helps them maintain their ties to judaism.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Student program:we provide the space and facility for students to socialize, study, gain leadership skills and coordinate student-led programs while on campus. We provide advisory support for various student groups each year and offer financial support for their programs. This includes social action programming, social programming, education programming, and skill building opportunities. Hillel provides nearly 400 programs and meetings each academic year. In addition, hillel serves as a watchdog to review, monitor and when necessary respond to issues related to campus climate and community relations issues.jewish learning and holidays:there are approximately 5,000 jewish students on the campus. We provide services and meals, and programs related to jewish holidays that are available to all jewish students. Includes staff time, materials and meals. These are conservative and reform style services and include pre and post holiday meals. All other jewish holidays during the academic year are celebrated, staffed and programmed in a similar manner. Shabbat holiday and meals:provide kosher meal program and festive holiday and shabbat meals to students throughout the academic year. We…
$1,845,838 spentof which $151 as grants$7,358 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,845,838.
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 2020 to 2021, from $19M to $22M (+18%).
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 7% · 2021 2% · 2022 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
37% of HILLEL FOUNDATION UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Greg Steinberger
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 13 funders, grant income fell $462k → $371k.
15 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $381k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Jewish Federation of Madison Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money HILLEL FOUNDATION UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN INC raised.
From the IRS filings of HILLEL FOUNDATION UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 funders by total. 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
HILLEL FOUNDATION UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
81% 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 HILLEL FOUNDATION UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 32% · 2019 28% · 2020 32% · 2021 52% · 2022 37% · 2023 32% — 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
42% of HILLEL FOUNDATION UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
HILLEL FOUNDATION UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN INC draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
HILLEL FOUNDATION UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,211 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,211 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like HILLEL FOUNDATION UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN 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
52% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
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 HILLEL FOUNDATION UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN 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 HILLEL FOUNDATION UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN INC?
- HILLEL FOUNDATION UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,975,305 to it, the largest being HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ($992,437). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HILLEL FOUNDATION UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN INC have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $3,975,305 in grants to HILLEL FOUNDATION UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HILLEL FOUNDATION UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN INC?
- HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE is the largest funder on record, with $992,437 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HILLEL FOUNDATION UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN 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 36 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