Wisconsin · Nonprofit
MILWAUKEE COUNTY WAR MEMORIAL INC
MILWAUKEE COUNTY WAR MEMORIAL INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,928,362 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($473,826). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.6M
- Funders on record
- 60
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $17M
What Milwaukee County War Memorial Inc does
Mission
The war memorial center's mission is to honor the dead and serve the living. We commemorate the courageous men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of freedom while preserving and sharing the stories, experiences, and sacrifices of all veterans and their families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The war memorial center is wisconsin's most visible and enduring tribute to the state's veterans. Beyond its architectural significance (designed by world renowned architect eero saarinen), it has grown into a statewide hub for veteran services and remembrance. It is a place to educate our youth and adults about the importance of service and provide an oasis for veterans in need of support.200,000+ served through educational and community programs delivered annually on-site, across the community, and online.50,000 veterans and their families served each year through public messaging campaigns launched to reduce the number of veteran suicides and promote veteran mental health.$580,000 of in-kind services provided each year to support veteran-serving and area nonprofit organizations.
$1,922,573 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,922,573.
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 2024 to 2025, from $14M to $21M (+56%).
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: 2017 86% · 2018 26% · 2019 35% · 2020 36% · 2021 44% · 2022 25% · 2023 23% · 2024 24% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of MILWAUKEE COUNTY WAR MEMORIAL INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Co Nguyen
President & CEO
Board chair
Charles A Gordon
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $88k → $215k.
9 of 60 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 COUNTY WAR MEMORIAL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 60 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
MILWAUKEE COUNTY WAR MEMORIAL INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
59% 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 MILWAUKEE COUNTY WAR MEMORIAL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 42% · 2019 76% · 2020 23% · 2021 80% · 2022 37% · 2023 32% — growing more concentrated.
“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
44% of MILWAUKEE COUNTY WAR MEMORIAL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
68% of MILWAUKEE COUNTY WAR MEMORIAL INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $323k 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
MILWAUKEE COUNTY WAR MEMORIAL INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MILWAUKEE COUNTY WAR MEMORIAL 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
75% 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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MILWAUKEE COUNTY WAR MEMORIAL INC: 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 MILWAUKEE COUNTY WAR MEMORIAL INC?
- MILWAUKEE COUNTY WAR MEMORIAL INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,928,362 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($473,826). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MILWAUKEE COUNTY WAR MEMORIAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 60 organizations giving $1,928,362 in grants to MILWAUKEE COUNTY WAR MEMORIAL INC, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MILWAUKEE COUNTY WAR MEMORIAL INC?
- NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $473,826 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MILWAUKEE COUNTY WAR MEMORIAL 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.
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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 60 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing