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WISCONSIN 4-H FOUNDATION INC

WISCONSIN 4-H FOUNDATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $273,376 to it, the largest being Kalscheur Family Foundation ($69,750). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.2M
Funders on record
24
Grants received
$273k
Net assets
$4.3M
12/24 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%
01What it does

What Wisconsin 4-H Foundation Inc does

Mission

The wisconsin 4-h foundation generates resources to invest in the positive development of 4-h youth.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The foundation provides resources to wisconsin 4-h youth development programs through grants, supporting work of state and county level uw-extension 4-h programs, scholarships, awards, administration of county livestock auctions, and wisconsin 4-h mission-focused endowments managed by the foundation.the wisconsin 4-h foundation annually provides more than $350,000 to the wisconsin 4-h program. This support helps 4-h create cutting-edge, relevant programs for young people to learn real-world skills that will prepare them for the challenges of today and tomorrow, moving communities, the state, our country and the world forward in ways no other youth organization can. The wisconsin 4-h foundation also administers two livestock auctions in the waushara and waupaca counties.

    $1,110,858 spentof which $961,765 as grants$8,937 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,110,858.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($487k) Expenses 100 ($551k) Net assets 100 ($3.3M)2018 Revenue 90 ($440k) Expenses 75 ($413k) Net assets 97 ($3.2M)2019 Revenue 129 ($627k) Expenses 95 ($525k) Net assets 115 ($3.7M)2020 Revenue 62 ($300k) Expenses 73 ($399k) Net assets 122 ($4.0M)2021 Revenue 109 ($529k) Expenses 138 ($758k) Net assets 136 ($4.5M)2022 Revenue 116 ($565k) Expenses 124 ($685k) Net assets 113 ($3.7M)2023 Revenue 269 ($1.3M) Expenses 276 ($1.5M) Net assets 119 ($3.9M)2024 Revenue 243 ($1.2M) Expenses 239 ($1.3M) Net assets 132 ($4.3M)
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Revenue (243)Expenses (239)Net assets (132)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 2018 to 2019, from $3.8M to $4.6M (+22%).

$4.0M
$3.8M
$4.6M
$4.7M
$5.3M
$4.6M
$4.8M
$4.9M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 20% · 2021 11% · 2022 4% · 2023 1% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of WISCONSIN 4-H FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,035 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$63k
’17
$27k
’18
$102k
’19
−$99k
’20
−$229k
’21
−$120k
’22
−$207k
’23
−$135k
’24
0.7
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.

Chief executive

Brenda Scheider

Executive director (thru nov)

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed18181816111098
Joined·+3+0+3+2+3+1+1
No longer listed·3057422
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $3k → $52k.

4 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $150k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest National 4-H Council). These are real filings, and they are not money WISCONSIN 4-H FOUNDATION INC raised.

From the IRS filings of WISCONSIN 4-H 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

WISCONSIN 4-H FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

38% 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 WISCONSIN 4-H FOUNDATION INC.

26%
largest funder
59%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 80% · 2019 68% · 2020 41% · 2021 51% · 2022 42% · 2023 38% — 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

50% of WISCONSIN 4-H FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

52% of WISCONSIN 4-H FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.

MN
WI
MO
DE
TN
FL

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

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Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $72k 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

WISCONSIN 4-H FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than half of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−11% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.7mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 10%Fundraising 6%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

95%

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

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WISCONSIN 4-H 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 WISCONSIN 4-H FOUNDATION INC?
WISCONSIN 4-H FOUNDATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $273,376 to it, the largest being Kalscheur Family Foundation ($69,750). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WISCONSIN 4-H FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $273,376 in grants to WISCONSIN 4-H FOUNDATION INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WISCONSIN 4-H FOUNDATION INC?
Kalscheur Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $69,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WISCONSIN 4-H 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 24 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