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MILWAUKEE YACHT CLUB

MILWAUKEE YACHT CLUB (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $4,100 to it, the largest being ARZBAECHER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($4,100). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.5M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$4k
Net assets
$866k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Milwaukee Yacht Club does

Mission

The organization's mission is to cooperate with the united states navy and the united states coast guard; to develop and encourage sail and power boating and yacht building, and the knowledge of naval architecture; to acquire, cultivate, and disseminate naval science and nautical knowledge, customs and beliefs; to study, teach and indulge in sailing, power boating, swimming and all other outdoor or indoor sports and recreation which tend to promote sportsmanship, closer fellowship and social intercourse among its members; and to acquire, hold and own such real and personal property as may be deemed necessary or useful for the furtherance of its business and purposes.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The club provides sailing, boating, and other forms of recreation to its members. The club also offers its members dining and social activities. The club has a full-time staff to offer a wide variety of dock services including summer and winter storage. The club also maintains a junior program for boaters, which entails sailing and racing lessons for beginners and intermediate boaters. The club also organizes various regattas throughout the year to further enhance the yachting experience.

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.

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 ($1.9M) Expenses 100 ($1.8M) Net assets 100 ($599k)2018 Revenue 114 ($2.2M) Expenses 104 ($1.9M) Net assets 143 ($854k)2019 Revenue 79 ($1.5M) Expenses 84 ($1.5M) Net assets 135 ($805k)2020 Revenue 73 ($1.4M) Expenses 70 ($1.3M) Net assets 151 ($905k)2021 Revenue 119 ($2.3M) Expenses 89 ($1.6M) Net assets 258 ($1.5M)2022 Revenue 92 ($1.8M) Expenses 115 ($2.1M) Net assets 199 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 83 ($1.6M) Expenses 93 ($1.7M) Net assets 175 ($1.0M)2024 Revenue 81 ($1.5M) Expenses 94 ($1.7M) Net assets 145 ($866k)
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Revenue (81)Expenses (94)Net assets (145)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $2.0M to $3.4M (+73%).

$1.4M
$1.4M
$1.2M
$1.3M
$2.0M
$3.4M
$3.0M
$2.8M
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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 17% · 2023 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$63k
’17
$256k
’18
−$49k
’19
$100k
’20
$641k
’21
−$356k
’22
−$140k
’23
−$184k
’24
2.8
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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Listed1313141313131111
Joined·+2+2+6+3+4+7+2
No longer listed·2173492
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $100.

Funder
'17
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of MILWAUKEE YACHT CLUB’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 MILWAUKEE YACHT CLUB's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.

WI

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

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’22
’23
Wisconsin out of state home

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

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05Profile & governance

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

Governance

9
board members
89%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds MILWAUKEE YACHT CLUB?
MILWAUKEE YACHT CLUB (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $4,100 to it, the largest being ARZBAECHER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($4,100). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MILWAUKEE YACHT CLUB have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $4,100 in grants to MILWAUKEE YACHT CLUB, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MILWAUKEE YACHT CLUB?
ARZBAECHER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MILWAUKEE YACHT CLUB 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 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