Wisconsin · Nonprofit
UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF GREATER DANE COUNTY INC
UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF GREATER DANE COUNTY INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $153,650 to it, the largest being CHC CREATING HEALTHIER COMMUNITIES ($85,689). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.9M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $154k
- Net assets
- $3.3M
What United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Dane County Inc does
Mission
To enrich the quality of life for people with disabilities and their families in their homes, in the communities and in their lives.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Youth resources provides support and services that play a direct role in assisting families with maintaining inclusive childcare for children with disabilities or providing after school and summer care for teens with disabilities. Respite services provide care for children, teenagers, and adults with developmental disabilities.
$1,633,660 spent$1,857,348 earned by the program31% of program spendingUcp administers two birth to three programs. Birth to three connections services dane county (outside of the madison school district) and birth to three rock county services all of rock county. These programs provide information and early intervention services for families with young children with developmental disabilities or delays.
$3,572,849 spent$3,927,126 earned by the program69% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,206,509.
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 $1.9M to $3.2M (+69%).
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 4% · 2022 13% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF GREATER DANE COUNTY 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. 1 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
Ginger Schwahn
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $33k → $11k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF GREATER DANE COUNTY 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
UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF GREATER DANE COUNTY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
91% 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 UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF GREATER DANE COUNTY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 54% · 2019 41% · 2020 99% · 2021 98% · 2022 61% · 2023 89% — growing more concentrated.
“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
14% of UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF GREATER DANE COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF GREATER DANE COUNTY INC draws 66% 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 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
UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF GREATER DANE COUNTY INC is better cushioned than half of the 8,121 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF GREATER DANE COUNTY 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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
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 UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF GREATER DANE COUNTY 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 UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF GREATER DANE COUNTY INC?
- UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF GREATER DANE COUNTY INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $153,650 to it, the largest being CHC CREATING HEALTHIER COMMUNITIES ($85,689). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF GREATER DANE COUNTY INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $153,650 in grants to UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF GREATER DANE COUNTY INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF GREATER DANE COUNTY INC?
- CHC CREATING HEALTHIER COMMUNITIES is the largest funder on record, with $85,689 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF GREATER DANE COUNTY 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 8 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