Wisconsin · Nonprofit
Sessions at McPike Park Inc
Sessions at McPike Park Inc (Wisconsin) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,743 to it, the largest being SHELDON L AND PEARL R LEIBOWITZ DALE LEIBOWITZ LEGACY FOUNDATION ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $72k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $46k
- Net assets
- $47
What Sessions at McPike Park Inc does
Mission
The Sessions at McPike Park is a free community performance arts festival thatpromotes cultural awareness, volunteerism, and community spirit. We bring exemplary local, national, and international music, comedy, anddance to Madison and Dane County. We endeavor to engage an inclusive audience, and we partner withlocal community-based non-profits who assist us with community outreach, and to whom we make grants.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Musical artists and performers employed and free live musical performances were provided to the community
$57,831 spent93% of program spendingSupport to local community organizations
$4,454 spentof which $4,454 as grants7% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $62,285.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $16k to $306 (−98%).
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: 2023 6% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Sessions at McPike Park Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $20k → $4k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 Sessions at McPike Park 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
Sessions at McPike Park Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 98%; 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: 2020 99% · 2021 63% · 2022 63% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of Sessions at McPike Park 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. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Sessions at McPike Park Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Sessions at McPike Park 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.
Public support
100%
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 Sessions at McPike Park 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 Sessions at McPike Park Inc?
- Sessions at McPike Park Inc (Wisconsin) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,743 to it, the largest being SHELDON L AND PEARL R LEIBOWITZ DALE LEIBOWITZ LEGACY FOUNDATION ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Sessions at McPike Park Inc have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $45,743 in grants to Sessions at McPike Park Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Sessions at McPike Park Inc?
- SHELDON L AND PEARL R LEIBOWITZ DALE LEIBOWITZ LEGACY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Sessions at McPike Park 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 5 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