Wisconsin · Nonprofit
TOPS CLUB INC
TOPS CLUB INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,587 to it, the largest being THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE EXCHANGE OF INDUSTRIAL RESOURCES INC ($5,587). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $8k
- Net assets
- $-1506976
What Tops Club Inc does
Mission
The tops mission is to provide an affordable and evidence-based approach to help and support our members as they take off and keep off pounds sensibly. Our vision is to be the best weight-loss support choice for people who want an active and healthy life.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Membership activities: tops members meet weekly in thousands of local weight-loss support chapters across the united states and canada to weigh-in, learn ways to become healthier (through professionally prepared programs about nutrition, proper portion sizes, fitness, self-care, and behavior modification) and to support and recognize one another as they make healthy lifestyle changes together. Tops' goal is to ensure people are at their healthiest at every weight. This is accomplished through several member programs such as retreats, international recognition day, and recognition awards.
$2,869,613 spent$2,425,670 earned by the program79% of program spendingEducation activities: as an approved provider for support services funded by the centers for disease control and prevention, tops continues to expand its joint efforts with local and state health departments to reach underserved, low-income communities through wisewoman and similar programs. Tops is cooperating with an independent researcher investigating the efficacy of our program in a targeted study of african-american breast cancer survivors funded over a multi-year grant from the national institutes of health. Tops continues its decades-long relationships with university reasearchers investigating the disease of obesity and its comorbidities.
$314,838 spent9% of program spendingField staff activities: tops has nearly 400 field staff, all of whom are members and many of whom are volunteers. Tops has an agreement with these dedicated men and women to provide support and service to chapters in their local areas. They organize volunteer training sessions for leaders and chapter officers to help them continuously improve the experience the volunteers in their weight-loss and healthy lifestyle efforts. Tops headquarters makes available numerous tools for field staff support, including free retreats, best practices webinars, and the like.
$436,034 spent$85,322 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,620,485.
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 2021 to 2022, from $2.2M to $1.5M (−31%).
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: 2021 11% · 2022 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of TOPS CLUB INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $500 → $6k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $4.5M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Foundation for Tops Club Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money TOPS CLUB INC raised.
From the IRS filings of TOPS CLUB 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
TOPS CLUB INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
74% 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 TOPS CLUB INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 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
TOPS CLUB INC draws 100% 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. 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
TOPS CLUB INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like TOPS CLUB 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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Foundation for Tops Club Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TOPS CLUB 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 TOPS CLUB INC?
- TOPS CLUB INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,587 to it, the largest being THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE EXCHANGE OF INDUSTRIAL RESOURCES INC ($5,587). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TOPS CLUB INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $7,587 in grants to TOPS CLUB INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TOPS CLUB INC?
- THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE EXCHANGE OF INDUSTRIAL RESOURCES INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,587 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TOPS CLUB 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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