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Wisconsin · Nonprofit
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN (Wisconsin) is funded by 232 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $25,985,236 in grants to it, the largest being HELEN D SCHULTE TRUST ($3,518,143). 94 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN is better cushioned than half of the 12,343 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,343 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2020
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
63% of UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (68% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
$1.4M from 14 funders in 2025, up from $1.7M and 36 in 2017.
1 of 232 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 232 funders by total. Association, not causation.
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 25% · 2019 21% · 2020 18% · 2021 35% · 2022 18% · 2023 33% · 2024 36% · 2025 44% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
21% of UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% 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.
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin — its reputation reaches beyond the state, across 36 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 232 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
53% of spending goes to programs.
Operates in 1 state
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2020 (financials across 2018–2020), and the filings of 232funders 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. view filing