Wisconsin · Nonprofit
SIMPSON STREET FREE PRESS INC
SIMPSON STREET FREE PRESS INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,743,336 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC ($353,113). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $447k
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $288k
What Simpson Street Free Press Inc does
Mission
Simpson street free press (ssfp) delivers high-impact academic instruction during after-school and summer hours. We publish newspapers. Our writers are kids. Students explore the core subject areas, then they write and publish. Our mission is to spark academic success and bridge achievement gaps.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Simpson street free press (ssfp) delivers high-impact academic instruction during after-school and summer hours. Ssfp uses extended-day academics to build permanent community assets. We sustain impact over time. Our student-written newspaper content focuses on the core subject areas -- science, history, social studies, and book reviews. Ssfp enrolls students in grades 2-12. Student writers learn the ropes, polish academic skills, and get promoted up the newsroom ranks. Older, more experienced students assist younger, less experienced peers. We also provide math tutoring and operate a network of youth book clubs. School grades, reading and math scores, and school-day attendance are measured. Student work is published and distributed, which inspires young readers across wisconsin.
$338,866 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $338,866.
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 2019 to 2020, from $70k to $325k (+362%).
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 7% · 2018 14% · 2019 16% · 2020 18% · 2021 18% · 2022 25% · 2023 22% · 2024 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of SIMPSON STREET FREE PRESS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
James Kramer
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $79k → $269k.
5 of 26 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 SIMPSON STREET FREE PRESS 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
SIMPSON STREET FREE PRESS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
54% 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 SIMPSON STREET FREE PRESS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 32% · 2019 35% · 2020 18% · 2021 18% · 2022 29% · 2023 19% — 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.
How long its funders stay
37% of SIMPSON STREET FREE PRESS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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
89% of SIMPSON STREET FREE PRESS 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. $262k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
SIMPSON STREET FREE PRESS INC is better cushioned than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SIMPSON STREET FREE PRESS INC
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In Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SIMPSON STREET FREE PRESS 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 SIMPSON STREET FREE PRESS INC?
- SIMPSON STREET FREE PRESS INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,743,336 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC ($353,113). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SIMPSON STREET FREE PRESS INC have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $1,743,336 in grants to SIMPSON STREET FREE PRESS INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SIMPSON STREET FREE PRESS INC?
- UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $353,113 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SIMPSON STREET FREE PRESS 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.
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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 26 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