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MILITARY VETERANS MUSEUM

MILITARY VETERANS MUSEUM (Wisconsin) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,503 to it, the largest being JEK FOUNDATION INC ($30,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$82k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$53k
Net assets
$2.2M
3/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%
01What it does

What Military Veterans Museum does

Mission

To honor our nations military history through education & preservation

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. To honor military history

    $113,920 spent$115,877 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $113,920.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($73k) Expenses 100 ($135k) Net assets 100 ($2.3M)2018 Revenue 143 ($104k) Expenses 99 ($134k) Net assets 98 ($2.3M)2019 Revenue 193 ($141k) Expenses 95 ($128k) Net assets 100 ($2.3M)2020 Revenue 124 ($90k) Expenses 106 ($144k) Net assets 98 ($2.3M)2021 Revenue 202 ($147k) Expenses 106 ($143k) Net assets 98 ($2.3M)2022 Revenue 136 ($99k) Expenses 88 ($119k) Net assets 97 ($2.3M)2023 Revenue 159 ($116k) Expenses 94 ($127k) Net assets 95 ($2.2M)2024 Revenue 113 ($82k) Expenses 84 ($113k) Net assets 95 ($2.2M)
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Revenue (113)Expenses (84)Net assets (95)Peer revenue range

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 $2.3M to $2.2M (−3%).

$2.3M
$2.3M
$2.3M
$2.3M
$2.3M
$2.3M
$2.2M
$2.2M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 10% · 2022 7% · 2023 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

75% of MILITARY VETERANS MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,273 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$62k
’17
−$30k
’18
$13k
’19
−$53k
’20
$4k
’21
−$20k
’22
−$11k
’23
−$31k
’24
26
months of
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.

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Listed181717174333
Joined·+5+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·60013100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $11k.

3 of 5 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.

From the IRS filings of MILITARY VETERANS MUSEUM’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

MILITARY VETERANS MUSEUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

42% 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 MILITARY VETERANS MUSEUM.

57%
largest funder
98%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 66% · 2021 99% · 2022 87% · 2023 54% — 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.

Where its funders are

98% of MILITARY VETERANS MUSEUM's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.

WI
MI

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $22k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MILITARY VETERANS MUSEUM is better cushioned than half of the 1,043 unclassified nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−38% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve25.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,043 unclassified nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Organizations like MILITARY VETERANS MUSEUM

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.

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 3%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MILITARY VETERANS MUSEUM: 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 MILITARY VETERANS MUSEUM?
MILITARY VETERANS MUSEUM (Wisconsin) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,503 to it, the largest being JEK FOUNDATION INC ($30,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MILITARY VETERANS MUSEUM have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $52,503 in grants to MILITARY VETERANS MUSEUM, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MILITARY VETERANS MUSEUM?
JEK FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MILITARY VETERANS MUSEUM 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 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