Wisconsin · Nonprofit
KIDS FROM WISCONSIN LTD
KIDS FROM WISCONSIN LTD (Wisconsin) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $606,759 to it, the largest being GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC ($201,550). 23 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.
- Revenue FY2025
- $630k
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $607k
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What Kids From Wisconsin Ltd does
Mission
Kids from wisconsin empowers the state's youth through performance and music enrichment experiences. We enhance communities by providing professional, affordable performing arts experiences and music residencies in underserved areas, using our musical platform as a catalyst for positive change.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization provides a music & dance group for the wisconsin state fair and other county fairs & events both in & outside of wisconsin.the organization provides music and dance workshops to local communities free of charge during the summer. In addition, the organization provides music and dance classes during the school year at select k-8 schools and for after-school programs.
$616,772 spentof which $55,820 as grants$322,424 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $616,772.
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 2019 to 2020, from $833k to $2.5M (+203%).
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.
45% of KIDS FROM WISCONSIN LTD’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% 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
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
Tara Johnson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $9k → $144k.
8 of 33 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 KIDS FROM WISCONSIN LTD’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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
KIDS FROM WISCONSIN LTD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
74% 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 KIDS FROM WISCONSIN LTD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 45% · 2019 43% · 2020 44% · 2021 51% · 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
36% of KIDS FROM WISCONSIN LTD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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 KIDS FROM WISCONSIN LTD'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 $257k that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $350k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
KIDS FROM WISCONSIN LTD's revenue fell 20% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding KIDS FROM WISCONSIN LTD receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
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 KIDS FROM WISCONSIN LTD
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
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 KIDS FROM WISCONSIN LTD: 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 KIDS FROM WISCONSIN LTD?
- KIDS FROM WISCONSIN LTD (Wisconsin) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $606,759 to it, the largest being GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC ($201,550). 23 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 KIDS FROM WISCONSIN LTD have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $606,759 in grants to KIDS FROM WISCONSIN LTD, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KIDS FROM WISCONSIN LTD?
- GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $201,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KIDS FROM WISCONSIN LTD 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 33 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