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WISCONSIN CONSERVATION VOICES INC

WISCONSIN CONSERVATION VOICES INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,214,781 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,004,992). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$2.9M
Funders on record
55
Grants received
$10M
Net assets
$2.9M
23/55 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Wisconsin Conservation Voices Inc does

Mission

Wisconsin conervation voices brings people together to protect the wisconsin we love. We connect conservation-minded people with the policy-making process through education, advocacy, public opinion research, and the implementation of nonpartisan voter participation techniques.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Advocacy and education - to connect conservation-minded citizens with the policy making process through education, advocacy, public opinion research, and implementation of voter participation techniques.

    $1,495,374 spentof which $34,234 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,495,374.

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 ($597k) Expenses 100 ($579k) Net assets 100 ($294k)2019 Revenue 150 ($896k) Expenses 123 ($710k) Net assets 174 ($511k)2020 Revenue 258 ($1.5M) Expenses 219 ($1.3M) Net assets 267 ($785k)2021 Revenue 192 ($1.1M) Expenses 152 ($882k) Net assets 358 ($1.1M)2022 Revenue 333 ($2.0M) Expenses 234 ($1.4M) Net assets 574 ($1.7M)2023 Revenue 272 ($1.6M) Expenses 307 ($1.8M) Net assets 522 ($1.5M)2024 Revenue 479 ($2.9M) Expenses 298 ($1.7M) Net assets 976 ($2.9M)
2017201920202021202220232024
Revenue (479)Expenses (298)Net assets (976)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 2023 to 2024, from $1.7M to $3.1M (+77%).

$319k
$602k
$875k
$1.1M
$1.8M
$1.7M
$3.1M
2017201920202021202220232024
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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

97% of WISCONSIN CONSERVATION VOICES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,293 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$18k
’17
$186k
’19
$274k
’20
$267k
’21
$634k
’22
−$152k
’23
$1.1M
’24
20
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

Kerry Schumann

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2017201920202021202220232024
Listed581414121614
Joined··+6+0+0+5+0
No longer listed··00212
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $247k → $1.4M.

15 of 55 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 CONSERVATION VOICES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 55 funders by total. 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 CONSERVATION VOICES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

84% 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 CONSERVATION VOICES INC.

20%
largest funder
42%
top three
~11
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 40% · 2019 55% · 2020 24% · 2021 37% · 2022 23% · 2023 30% — 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

40% of WISCONSIN CONSERVATION VOICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

WISCONSIN CONSERVATION VOICES INC draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 12 states in all.

WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OH
CA
CO
MD
DC
GA

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 CONSERVATION VOICES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin40% · top quartile
Months of reserve19.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)25% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like WISCONSIN CONSERVATION VOICES 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.

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 9%Fundraising 4%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

66%

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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Questions and answers

Who funds WISCONSIN CONSERVATION VOICES INC?
WISCONSIN CONSERVATION VOICES INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,214,781 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,004,992). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WISCONSIN CONSERVATION VOICES INC have?
IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $10,214,781 in grants to WISCONSIN CONSERVATION VOICES INC, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WISCONSIN CONSERVATION VOICES INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,004,992 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WISCONSIN CONSERVATION VOICES 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 55 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