Wisconsin · Nonprofit
WATERFEST INC
WATERFEST INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $76,300 to it, the largest being OSHKOSH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC ($70,850). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $547k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $76k
- Net assets
- $7k
What Waterfest Inc does
Mission
Promote and draw attention to downtown oshkosh.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The objective of the organization is to promote and draw attention to the downtown area of oshkosh by hiring bands to perform concerts at the leach amphitheater. The activity is open to the public. A nominal fee is charged for adults. The waterfest program runs for approximately 9 evenings during summer months. The estimated attendance for the summer activity is 30,000 to 35,000. The organization obtains sponsorship fees from area businesses as a means of financial support. Also, the organization receives royalties from other nonprofit organizations that run concession stands at the concerts.
$580,267 spent$301,834 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $580,267.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $38k to $381k (+911%).
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 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $150 → $13k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 WATERFEST 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
WATERFEST INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% 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
99% 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 WATERFEST INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 97% · 2019 100% · 2021 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
100% of WATERFEST 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. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like WATERFEST 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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WATERFEST 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 WATERFEST INC?
- WATERFEST INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $76,300 to it, the largest being OSHKOSH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC ($70,850). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WATERFEST INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $76,300 in grants to WATERFEST INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WATERFEST INC?
- OSHKOSH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $70,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WATERFEST 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 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