Wisconsin · Nonprofit
UMOJA MAGAZINE - MADISON INC
UMOJA MAGAZINE - MADISON INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $8,000 to it, the largest being THE EVJUE FOUNDATION INC ($8,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $107k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $8k
- Net assets
- $40k
What Umoja Magazine - Madison Inc does
Mission
The mission of umoja magazine is to empower the african american community in madison and beyond to tell its own story of history, culture, art, and other positive news.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Umoja magazine's signature activity is the annual publication of 11 print magazines that feature positive stories and community service messages by and about the black community in madison, wisconsin and beyond. The stories in each issue are supplemented by extensive photography and original artwork. Each issue of the magazine is themed around an important public service message. In addition to these ongoing topics, occasional special issues are produced to focus on timely topics such as covid-19 in the black community, black excellence in our schools, and others. To further our reach and mission, umoja launched an online version of the magazine in early 2021. This will allow our important educational content to reach more people. It will also allow us the opportunity to deliver important educational content and public service messages in between issues of the print publication. The umoja magazine youth voices project is a new program that provides middle and high school youth with a series of creative writing and media arts workshops that culminate in a special black excellence youth voices issues of umoja magazine. The program teaches youth writing and media arts skills, exposes…
$162,583 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $162,583.
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 $181k to $110k (−39%).
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.
19% of UMOJA MAGAZINE - MADISON INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Ruben Anthony Jr
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of UMOJA MAGAZINE - MADISON 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.
Where its funders are
100% of UMOJA MAGAZINE - MADISON INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
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
UMOJA MAGAZINE - MADISON INC has grown faster 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 UMOJA MAGAZINE - MADISON 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
40%
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 UMOJA MAGAZINE - MADISON 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 UMOJA MAGAZINE - MADISON INC?
- UMOJA MAGAZINE - MADISON INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $8,000 to it, the largest being THE EVJUE FOUNDATION INC ($8,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UMOJA MAGAZINE - MADISON INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $8,000 in grants to UMOJA MAGAZINE - MADISON INC.
- Who is the largest funder of UMOJA MAGAZINE - MADISON INC?
- THE EVJUE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $8,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UMOJA MAGAZINE - MADISON 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 1 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