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WAUSAU AND MARATHON COUNTY PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION INC

WAUSAU AND MARATHON COUNTY PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $79,300 to it, the largest being JUDD S ALEXANDER FOUNDATION ($39,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$29k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$79k
Net assets
$135k
0/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 98%
01What it does

What Wausau and Marathon County Parks and Recreation Foundation Inc does

Mission

Promote the common good and general welfare of the people of marathon county, wisconsin, by lessening the burdens of government by protecting the natural resources and combating deterioration of public buildings, monuments, or works in the communities within marathon county and bringing about civic betterments and social improvements within marathon county.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Funding for various local park and outdoor recreation projects

    $82,514 spentof which $70,864 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $82,514.

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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($292k) Expenses 100 ($559k) Net assets -22 ($-29030)2022 Revenue 86 ($251k) Expenses 12 ($65k) Net assets 100 ($134k)2023 Revenue 1 ($4k) Expenses 2 ($12k) Net assets 101 ($136k)2024 Revenue 11 ($32k) Expenses 10 ($58k) Net assets 145 ($195k)2025 Revenue 10 ($29k) Expenses 16 ($89k) Net assets 100 ($135k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (10)Expenses (16)Net assets (100)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $218k to $134k (−38%).

$218k
$134k
$136k
$195k
$135k
20212022202320242025
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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$267k
’21
$185k
’22
−$8k
’23
−$26k
’24
−$60k
’25
0.1
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.

20212022
Listed413
Joined·+9
No longer listed·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $70k → $4k.

1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 WAUSAU AND MARATHON COUNTY PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION 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

WAUSAU AND MARATHON COUNTY PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

50%
largest funder
95%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 57% · 2023 71% — 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.

Where its funders are

100% of WAUSAU AND MARATHON COUNTY PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.

WI

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

’22
’23
Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like WAUSAU AND MARATHON COUNTY PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION 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

05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WAUSAU AND MARATHON COUNTY PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION 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 WAUSAU AND MARATHON COUNTY PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION INC?
WAUSAU AND MARATHON COUNTY PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $79,300 to it, the largest being JUDD S ALEXANDER FOUNDATION ($39,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WAUSAU AND MARATHON COUNTY PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $79,300 in grants to WAUSAU AND MARATHON COUNTY PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION INC.
Who is the largest funder of WAUSAU AND MARATHON COUNTY PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION INC?
JUDD S ALEXANDER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $39,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WAUSAU AND MARATHON COUNTY PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 6 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