Wisconsin · Nonprofit
Imagine MKEInc
Imagine MKEInc (Wisconsin) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,608,708 to it, the largest being RICHARD AND ETHEL HERZFELD FOUNDATION INC ($745,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Imagine MKEInc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.
- United Performing Arts Fund Incshared funderslocalportfolio match
- The Burke Foundation Incshared funderslocal
- Springboard for the Artsportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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: 2021 54%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of Imagine MKEInc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $388k → $110k.
2 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 Imagine MKEInc’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
Imagine MKEInc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 52% · 2019 43% · 2020 38% · 2021 63% · 2022 40% · 2023 45% — 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
33% of Imagine MKEInc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
95% of Imagine MKEInc's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $223k 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 20 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Performing Arts Fund Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchWI · backs 22 organizations that share your funders · funds 35 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Burke Foundation Incshared funderslocalWI · backs 33 organizations that share your funders · funds 37 organizations near you
- Springboard for the Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Osborne & Scekic Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Southwest Minnesota Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Andy Nunemaker Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Richard H Driehaus Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Daniel M Soref Rvoc Trshared fundersWI · backs 40 organizations that share your funders
- Brewers Community Foundation Incshared funderslocalWI · backs 76 organizations that share your funders · funds 97 organizations near you
- Charles D Jacobus Family Foundationshared fundersWI · backs 40 organizations that share your funders
- Anon Charitable Trustshared funderslocalWI · backs 101 organizations that share your funders · funds 119 organizations near you
- Nicholas Family Foundation Trustshared fundersWI · backs 44 organizations that share your funders
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 Imagine MKEInc
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Imagine MKEInc: 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 Imagine MKEInc?
- Imagine MKEInc (Wisconsin) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,608,708 to it, the largest being RICHARD AND ETHEL HERZFELD FOUNDATION INC ($745,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Imagine MKEInc have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,608,708 in grants to Imagine MKEInc, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Imagine MKEInc?
- RICHARD AND ETHEL HERZFELD FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $745,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Imagine MKEInc 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 20funders 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