Wisconsin · Nonprofit
WAUPACA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
WAUPACA HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Wisconsin) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,803 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE FOX VALLEY REGION INC ($21,436). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $188k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $27k
- Net assets
- $687k
What Waupaca Historical Society does
Mission
The mission of the Waupaca Historical Society is to preserve the history of the waupaca area and to share that history with others. We do this through our library and artifact collections, special exhibits and programs, and tours of our facilities that we offer to individuals, groups, families and students. Our services are provided free of charge. The Waupaca Historical Society is actively involved with the following project: maintaining and improving our four historic buildings. Developing and offering historical programs on a monthly basis. Offering tours of our historic buildings during the summer months. Creating rotating educational exhibits at the holly history and genealogy center. Actively collecting and cataloging historical documents and artifacts of significance to the waupaca area. Supporting genealogical and local historical research. Serve as a resource and partner for our community, local leadership, businesses and organizations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The mission of the Waupaca Historical Society is to preserve the history of the waupaca area and to share that history with others. We do this through our library and artifact collections, special exhibits and programs, and tours of our facilities that we offer to individuals, groups, families and students. Our services are provided free of charge. The Waupaca Historical Society is actively involved with the following project: maintaining and improving our four historic buildings. Developing and offering historical programs on a monthly basis. Offering tours of our historic buildings during the summer months. Creating rotating educational exhibits at the holly history and genealogy center. Actively collecting and cataloging historical documents and artifacts of significance to the waupaca area. Supporting genealogical and local historical research. Serve as a resource and partner for our community, local leadership, businesses and organizations.
$91,848 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $91,848.
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 2024 to 2025, from $593k to $687k (+16%).
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: 2020 52% · 2021 27% · 2022 79% · 2024 24% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of WAUPACA HISTORICAL SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 2 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
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $6k → $5k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% 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 WAUPACA HISTORICAL SOCIETY’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
WAUPACA HISTORICAL SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 99%; 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 WAUPACA HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — 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
81% of WAUPACA HISTORICAL SOCIETY'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 $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Wisconsin funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $22k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
WAUPACA HISTORICAL SOCIETY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 WAUPACA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: 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 WAUPACA HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- WAUPACA HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Wisconsin) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,803 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE FOX VALLEY REGION INC ($21,436). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WAUPACA HISTORICAL SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $26,803 in grants to WAUPACA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WAUPACA HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE FOX VALLEY REGION INC is the largest funder on record, with $21,436 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WAUPACA HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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 4 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