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Wisconsin · Nonprofit
MILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC (Wisconsin) is funded by 46 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $11,269,245 in grants to it, the largest being UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ($6,392,947). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 716 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 716 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2023
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
70% of MILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Grant income rose $14k → $19k on a roughly flat funder count — a concentrated base.
15 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 MILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 funders by total. Association, not causation.
MILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 90% · 2019 51% · 2020 39% · 2021 73% · 2022 61% · 2023 40% · 2024 61% · 2025 76% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
59% of MILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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.
MILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC is locally rooted: 85% of its grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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 46 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
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.
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
87% of spending goes to programs.
64%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Operates in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2018–2023), and the filings of 46funders 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. view filing