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WAUKESHA COUNTY CHRISTMAS CLEARING COUNCIL INC

WAUKESHA COUNTY CHRISTMAS CLEARING COUNCIL INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $191,371 to it, the largest being WAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($78,020). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2026
$267k
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$191k
Net assets
$493k
12/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%
01What it does

What Waukesha County Christmas Clearing Council Inc does

Mission

Serving families in need at christmas time

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.

Program

  1. Giftcards distributed to all children not sponsored

    $191,704 spentof which $98,550 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $191,704.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($493k) Expenses 100 ($412k) Net assets 100 ($355k)2022 Revenue 55 ($271k) Expenses 55 ($225k) Net assets 111 ($396k)2023 Revenue 49 ($242k) Expenses 55 ($224k) Net assets 110 ($392k)2024 Revenue 56 ($277k) Expenses 59 ($242k) Net assets 123 ($437k)2025 Revenue 54 ($269k) Expenses 63 ($260k) Net assets 129 ($458k)2026 Revenue 54 ($267k) Expenses 63 ($261k) Net assets 139 ($493k)
202120222023202420252026
Revenue (54)Expenses (63)Net assets (139)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $389k to $437k (+13%).

$355k
$396k
$389k
$437k
$459k
$494k
202120222023202420252026
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

91% of WAUKESHA COUNTY CHRISTMAS CLEARING COUNCIL INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$81k
’21
$46k
’22
$17k
’23
$35k
’24
$9k
’25
$6k
’26
10
months of
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.

202120222023202420252026
Listed111211141414
Joined·+2+0+4+1+0
No longer listed·11110
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $12k → $24k.

5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 WAUKESHA COUNTY CHRISTMAS CLEARING COUNCIL 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

WAUKESHA COUNTY CHRISTMAS CLEARING COUNCIL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

76% 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 WAUKESHA COUNTY CHRISTMAS CLEARING COUNCIL INC.

41%
largest funder
73%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 51% · 2019 78% · 2020 51% · 2021 59% · 2022 40% · 2023 62% — diversifying over time.

“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

56% of WAUKESHA COUNTY CHRISTMAS CLEARING COUNCIL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

71% of WAUKESHA COUNTY CHRISTMAS CLEARING COUNCIL INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $56k that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from Wisconsin funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’19
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’22
’23
Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $136k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

WAUKESHA COUNTY CHRISTMAS CLEARING COUNCIL INC is better cushioned than half of the 274 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve10.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−12% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 274 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

73% of spending goes to programs.

Program 73%Management 27%Fundraising 0%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds WAUKESHA COUNTY CHRISTMAS CLEARING COUNCIL INC?
WAUKESHA COUNTY CHRISTMAS CLEARING COUNCIL INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $191,371 to it, the largest being WAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($78,020). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does WAUKESHA COUNTY CHRISTMAS CLEARING COUNCIL INC have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $191,371 in grants to WAUKESHA COUNTY CHRISTMAS CLEARING COUNCIL INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WAUKESHA COUNTY CHRISTMAS CLEARING COUNCIL INC?
WAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $78,020 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WAUKESHA COUNTY CHRISTMAS CLEARING COUNCIL 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 FY2026 (financials across 2021–2026), and the filings of 16 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