Wisconsin · Nonprofit
PAINE ART CENTER & GARDENS INC
PAINE ART CENTER & GARDENS INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,819,825 to it, the largest being MARGARET A CARGILL FOUNDATION ($1,581,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $24M
What Paine Art Center & Gardens Inc does
Mission
Paine art center & gardens, inc. Is a historic estate that serves as a multifaceted museum for learning and inspiration. The core purposes of the organization are to sustain the care of the historic architecture, collections, and gardens; to offer culturally enriching experiences within the beautiful settings; and to inspire people to enjoy, create, and share beauty in their daily lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Collections & exhibitions - paine art center & gardens, inc. Provides planning, transportation, design, and installation of exhibitions. It is also responsible for preserving museum collections. The organization has a long history of presenting exceptional exhibitions spanning classical to contemporary art. The historic paine property holds a collection of more than a thousand artworks, including paintings, sculptures, furnishings, and decorative objects. The rooms and hallways of the paine mansion display items from nathan and jessie kimberly paine's collection of fine art and decorative objects, most notably, french barbizon and american landscape paintings from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, primarily purchased in the mid-1920's. The estate's gardens also feature several sculptures as focal points of the outdoor "galleries". While a majority of the collection was acquired by the paines, it has also grown substantially through donations and purchases while continuing to reflect the subjects and spirit of the founders' original gift. The collection is catalogued for educational and curatorial purposes. The organizations intent is to preserve and maintain their collection…
$1,143,596 spent$1,801,884 earned by the program52% of program spendingExternal relations - the organization complies and distributes all information for communication to the public.
$645,581 spent29% of program spendingGardens - the organization maintains, preserves, and interprets the horticultural collection. The paine estate features twenty garden areas for public enjoyment and education. In concert with the historic architecture, the garden designs create outdoor "rooms" showcasing a wide variety of plants. Like the paine mansion's rooms and galleries, the gardens are designed to create a variety of intimate and grand settings. Set against the backdrop of the mansion, the gardens showcase perennials that are especially hardy in wisconsin's climate as well as trees, shrubs and wildflowers native to the state. Displays of annuals and bulbs change each year and present new varieties and unusual combinations to inspire every level of garden enthusiast.
$347,988 spent16% of program spendingEducation - the organization develops and administers educational and interpretive programs. Volunteer services - the organization is responsible for developing and maintaining its volunteer program. You will find our enthusiastic volunteers contributing in countless ways throughout the entire estate. Some volunteers warmly welcome guests, others participate in curatorial and archival activities, still others roll up their sleeves and go to work in our enchanting gardens.
$58,971 spent3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,196,136.
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 2020 to 2021, from $22M to $24M (+10%).
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 0% · 2018 5% · 2019 6% · 2020 18% · 2021 12% · 2022 17% · 2023 2% · 2024 7% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
25% of PAINE ART CENTER & GARDENS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $411k → $523k.
5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $781k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Oshkosh Area Community Foundation Corporation). These are real filings, and they are not money PAINE ART CENTER & GARDENS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of PAINE ART CENTER & GARDENS INC’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.
How concentrated its funding is
PAINE ART CENTER & GARDENS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 94%; 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 51% · 2018 94% · 2019 73% · 2020 89% · 2021 46% · 2022 36% · 2023 69% — 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
63% of PAINE ART CENTER & GARDENS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
PAINE ART CENTER & GARDENS INC draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $68k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
PAINE ART CENTER & GARDENS INC has grown faster than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding PAINE ART CENTER & GARDENS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $716k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$716k
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.
Organizations like PAINE ART CENTER & GARDENS 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
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
59%
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 PAINE ART CENTER & GARDENS 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. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds PAINE ART CENTER & GARDENS INC?
- PAINE ART CENTER & GARDENS INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,819,825 to it, the largest being MARGARET A CARGILL FOUNDATION ($1,581,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PAINE ART CENTER & GARDENS INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $2,819,825 in grants to PAINE ART CENTER & GARDENS INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PAINE ART CENTER & GARDENS INC?
- MARGARET A CARGILL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,581,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PAINE ART CENTER & GARDENS 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.
Play a game about who funds Paine Art Center & Gardens →
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 16 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