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MARKESAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY

MARKESAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,239 to it, the largest being FRANCIS R & RUTH E OBERREICH FOUNDATION CORPORATION ($1,239). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$25k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$1k
Net assets
$1.3M
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Markesan Historical Society does

Program

  1. Operation of historical museum for the public depicting farm life in 1800's wisconsin including presentation of featured speakers.

    $31,170 spent

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($32k) Expenses 100 ($37k) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2018 Revenue 84 ($27k) Expenses 111 ($41k) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2019 Revenue 122 ($39k) Expenses 136 ($51k) Net assets 98 ($1.2M)2020 Revenue 113 ($36k) Expenses 99 ($37k) Net assets 95 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 124 ($39k) Expenses 121 ($45k) Net assets 105 ($1.2M)2022 Revenue 198 ($63k) Expenses 133 ($50k) Net assets 104 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 118 ($37k) Expenses 116 ($43k) Net assets 101 ($1.2M)2024 Revenue 365 ($115k) Expenses 134 ($50k) Net assets 103 ($1.2M)2025 Revenue 78 ($25k) Expenses 150 ($56k) Net assets 106 ($1.3M)
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Revenue (78)Expenses (150)Net assets (106)

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 $1.1M to $1.2M (+10%).

$1.2M
$1.2M
$1.2M
$1.1M
$1.2M
$1.2M
$1.2M
$1.2M
$1.3M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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Listed899989999
Joined·+1+0+0+2+1+1+2+0
No longer listed·00030120
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

From the IRS filings of MARKESAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY’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.

Where its funders are

100% of MARKESAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.

WI

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like MARKESAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds MARKESAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
MARKESAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,239 to it, the largest being FRANCIS R & RUTH E OBERREICH FOUNDATION CORPORATION ($1,239). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MARKESAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,239 in grants to MARKESAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Who is the largest funder of MARKESAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
FRANCIS R & RUTH E OBERREICH FOUNDATION CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,239 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MARKESAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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 1 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