Wisconsin · Nonprofit
LUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA WISCONSIN CHAPTER INC
LUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA WISCONSIN CHAPTER INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $273,780 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($119,200). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $211k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $274k
- Net assets
- $554k
What Lupus Foundation of America Wisconsin Chapter Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to improve the quality of life of all people affected by lupus through programs of research, education, support, and advocacy. This includes lupus warriors, their caretakers, families, and friends; we are here to support all our constituency.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The lupus foundation of america (lfa), wisconsin chapter funds local research grants and hosts lfa lupus lectureships at wisconsin's premier medical schools. Understanding lupus is challenging and education is essential. Services include one-on-one peer counseling, managing support groups, hosting summits for lupus ambassadors and leadership, and providing educational presentations in-person and virtually. Partnerships with donors and sponsors enable family support with communal outings, a patient assistance fund provides direct financial support for lupus warriors for items and programs that increase their quality of life. The chapter advocates for policies that benefit lupus warriors on the local and national level. The wisconsin chapter is affiliated with the lupus foundation of america and nationally works to optimize clinical trials, fund medical research, unite the medical community by creating tools to share lupus information, offer self-management programs and tools to manage lupus, and more.
$167,909 spentof which $4,173 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $167,909.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $627k to $752k (+20%).
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 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Dawn Thomas-Semanko
CEO
Board chair
Debra Riekkoff
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $24k.
6 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 91% 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 LUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA WISCONSIN CHAPTER 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
LUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA WISCONSIN CHAPTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
99% 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 LUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA WISCONSIN CHAPTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 66% · 2019 80% · 2020 68% · 2021 82% · 2022 79% · 2023 97% — 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
30% of LUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA WISCONSIN CHAPTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
91% of LUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA WISCONSIN CHAPTER 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 $25k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from funders outside Wisconsin, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $248k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Organizations like LUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA WISCONSIN CHAPTER 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
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
63%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA WISCONSIN CHAPTER INC?
- LUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA WISCONSIN CHAPTER INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $273,780 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($119,200). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA WISCONSIN CHAPTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $273,780 in grants to LUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA WISCONSIN CHAPTER INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA WISCONSIN CHAPTER INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $119,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA WISCONSIN CHAPTER 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 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