Wisconsin · Nonprofit
WISCONSIN BROADCASTERS ASSOCIATION INC
WISCONSIN BROADCASTERS ASSOCIATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,000 to it, the largest being Brewers Community Foundation Inc ($6,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $6k
- Net assets
- $3.4M
What Wisconsin Broadcasters Association Inc does
Mission
The purpose of the wisconsin broadcasters association shall be to foster and promote the development of the arts of aural and visual broadcasting in all its forms; to protect its members in every lawful and proper manner from injustices and unjust exactions; to do all things necessary and proper to encourage and promote customs and practices which will strengthen and maintain the broadcast industry to the end that it may best serve the public.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Ncsa/public education program - coordinated effort to encourage broadcasters to air high quality informational announcements on public service commission lung health, construction zone safety, drunk driving, and winter driving advisories. Nearly 300,000 announcements aired statewide under the programs, which are aimed at helping broadcasters be more responsible to their communities.
Summer convention, legislative awareness visits, and broadcasters clinic - provides broadcasters, students, and legislators with information on the broadcast industry and developments.
Awards and contributions - awards and various contributions to organizations promoting and serving the broadcast industry. Awards are for achievement in the broadcast industry.
Wba newsletters - newsletters to members informing them of trends and developments affecting them and their broadcasting community.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.8M to $2.7M (+51%).
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: 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of WISCONSIN BROADCASTERS ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Michelle Vetterkind
President and CEO
Board chair
Aleese Fielder
Chairman of the board
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 BROADCASTERS ASSOCIATION 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.
Where its funders are
100% of WISCONSIN BROADCASTERS ASSOCIATION 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
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.
Against its field
WISCONSIN BROADCASTERS ASSOCIATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding WISCONSIN BROADCASTERS ASSOCIATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $975k on record.
- Department of Defense$975k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like WISCONSIN BROADCASTERS ASSOCIATION 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.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Wisconsin Broadcasters Association Foundation Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WISCONSIN BROADCASTERS ASSOCIATION 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 BROADCASTERS ASSOCIATION INC?
- WISCONSIN BROADCASTERS ASSOCIATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,000 to it, the largest being Brewers Community Foundation Inc ($6,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WISCONSIN BROADCASTERS ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $6,000 in grants to WISCONSIN BROADCASTERS ASSOCIATION INC.
- Who is the largest funder of WISCONSIN BROADCASTERS ASSOCIATION INC?
- Brewers Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $6,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WISCONSIN BROADCASTERS ASSOCIATION 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 1 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