Wisconsin · Nonprofit
NORTHERN STAR FOUNDATION INC
NORTHERN STAR FOUNDATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $318,000 to it, the largest being THE NORTHERN STAR THEATRE COMPANY ($318,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
NORTHERN STAR FOUNDATION INC's revenue fell 99% between 2022 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,133 public benefit nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Wallace H Jerome Foundationlocal
- Northwest North Dakota Community Foundation Incportfolio match
- Cordon Family Foundation Charitable Trustportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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.
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.
0% of NORTHERN STAR FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of NORTHERN STAR FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
Where its funders are
100% of NORTHERN STAR FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
Funders to approach
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.
- Wallace H Jerome FoundationlocalWI · funds 12 organizations near you
- Northwest North Dakota Community Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cordon Family Foundation Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John and Melissa Besse Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Eppes - Jefferson Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kitty M Perkins Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Myra Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Foundation of Grand Forks East Grand Forks and Regionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Glenn W Peel Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sage Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Waldman Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nac Development Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Organizations like NORTHERN STAR FOUNDATION INC
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.
In Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NORTHERN STAR FOUNDATION 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds NORTHERN STAR FOUNDATION INC?
- NORTHERN STAR FOUNDATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $318,000 to it, the largest being THE NORTHERN STAR THEATRE COMPANY ($318,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTHERN STAR FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $318,000 in grants to NORTHERN STAR FOUNDATION INC.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHERN STAR FOUNDATION INC?
- THE NORTHERN STAR THEATRE COMPANY is the largest funder on record, with $318,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHERN STAR FOUNDATION 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 1funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing