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Wisconsin · Nonprofit
MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC (Wisconsin) is funded by 148 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $12,111,764 in grants to it, the largest being GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC ($1,482,682). 110 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC is funded by 148 grantmakers reporting $12.1M in grants to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 552 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
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.
64% of MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM 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. 5 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
$353k from 15 funders in 2025, up from $690k and 39 in 2017.
16 of 148 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 PUBLIC MUSEUM INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 148 funders by total. Association, not causation.
MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 35% · 2019 21% · 2020 18% · 2021 16% · 2022 24% · 2023 24% · 2024 21% · 2025 31% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
57% of MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% 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 PUBLIC MUSEUM INC is locally rooted: 84% 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 148 funders put you well-backed 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.
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $860k on record — $859k federal, $63 state.
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
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.
71% of spending goes to programs.
95%
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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 148funders 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