Wisconsin · Nonprofit
SHAWANO SKI SHARKS
SHAWANO SKI SHARKS (Wisconsin) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $159,087 to it, the largest being Thrivent Financial for Lutherans ($110,573). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $127k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $159k
- Net assets
- $285k
What Shawano Ski Sharks does
Mission
To provide an entertaining Ski Shark show free to the community in a family focused environment. All members, skiers and non skiers work together to increase skills, develope creative shows and home leadership abilities to create the best water ski show in Northeast Wisconsin.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
To Educate participants in proper skiing mechanics and to entertain area community members and tourists. Provide an alternative activity to area youth as a means of promoting a healthy lifestyle and appropriate decision making.
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $271k to $394k (+45%).
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.
98% of SHAWANO SKI SHARKS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $11k → $20k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 SHAWANO SKI SHARKS’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
SHAWANO SKI SHARKS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% 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
84% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund SHAWANO SKI SHARKS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 98% · 2019 66% · 2020 100% · 2021 59% · 2022 94% · 2023 50% — diversifying over time.
“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
SHAWANO SKI SHARKS draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $24k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
SHAWANO SKI SHARKS's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,010 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SHAWANO SKI SHARKS
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
97%
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 SHAWANO SKI SHARKS: 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 SHAWANO SKI SHARKS?
- SHAWANO SKI SHARKS (Wisconsin) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $159,087 to it, the largest being Thrivent Financial for Lutherans ($110,573). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SHAWANO SKI SHARKS have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $159,087 in grants to SHAWANO SKI SHARKS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHAWANO SKI SHARKS?
- Thrivent Financial for Lutherans is the largest funder on record, with $110,573 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHAWANO SKI SHARKS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing