Wisconsin · Nonprofit
WISCONSIN ACADEMY FOR GRADUATE SERVICE DOGS INC
WISCONSIN ACADEMY FOR GRADUATE SERVICE DOGS INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $462,145 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($185,447). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $321k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $462k
- Net assets
- $141k
What Wisconsin Academy for Graduate Service Dogs Inc does
Mission
WAGS mission is to promote functional independence and improved quality of life for persons with physical mobility impairments through partnerships with highly skilled service dogs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Wisconsin Academy for Graduate Service Dogs (WAGS) raises and trains service dogs to increase the ability of people with disabilities to independently execute functional, daily living skills, increase attendance in daily life events and improve outlook on life with the aid and support of a highly trained service dog. WAGS has facilitated the partnership of more than 150 service dogs with people with disabilities of movement such as multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injuries, neuromuscular disease and cerebral palsy.
$201,187 spent100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $201,187.
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 2023 to 2024, from $160k to $215k (+34%).
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: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 12% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $37k → $57k.
3 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 WISCONSIN ACADEMY FOR GRADUATE SERVICE DOGS 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 ACADEMY FOR GRADUATE SERVICE DOGS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
80% 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 ACADEMY FOR GRADUATE SERVICE DOGS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 48% · 2019 49% · 2020 47% · 2021 55% · 2022 48% · 2023 50% — 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
33% of WISCONSIN ACADEMY FOR GRADUATE SERVICE DOGS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.
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
99% of WISCONSIN ACADEMY FOR GRADUATE SERVICE DOGS 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. $201k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like WISCONSIN ACADEMY FOR GRADUATE SERVICE DOGS 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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WISCONSIN ACADEMY FOR GRADUATE SERVICE DOGS 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 ACADEMY FOR GRADUATE SERVICE DOGS INC?
- WISCONSIN ACADEMY FOR GRADUATE SERVICE DOGS INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $462,145 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($185,447). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WISCONSIN ACADEMY FOR GRADUATE SERVICE DOGS INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $462,145 in grants to WISCONSIN ACADEMY FOR GRADUATE SERVICE DOGS INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WISCONSIN ACADEMY FOR GRADUATE SERVICE DOGS INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $185,447 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WISCONSIN ACADEMY FOR GRADUATE SERVICE DOGS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 15 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