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WISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD KINGDOM WORKERS INC

WISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD KINGDOM WORKERS INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,590,848 to it, the largest being THE MARVIN M SCHWAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($6,906,750). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$6.3M
Revenue FY2025
41
Funders on record
$13M
Grants received
$4.4M
Net assets
31/41 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 50%

Against its field

WISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD KINGDOM WORKERS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,036 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin19% · above the median
Months of reserve3.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,036 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($2.9M) Expenses 100 ($2.7M) Net assets 100 ($2.0M)2018 Revenue 113 ($3.3M) Expenses 111 ($2.9M) Net assets 109 ($2.1M)2019 Revenue 99 ($2.8M) Expenses 122 ($3.2M) Net assets 96 ($1.9M)2020 Revenue 112 ($3.2M) Expenses 109 ($2.9M) Net assets 120 ($2.4M)2021 Revenue 162 ($4.7M) Expenses 124 ($3.3M) Net assets 193 ($3.8M)2022 Revenue 148 ($4.3M) Expenses 170 ($4.5M) Net assets 165 ($3.2M)2023 Revenue 170 ($4.9M) Expenses 172 ($4.5M) Net assets 193 ($3.8M)2024 Revenue 138 ($4.0M) Expenses 184 ($4.9M) Net assets 154 ($3.0M)2025 Revenue 218 ($6.3M) Expenses 193 ($5.1M) Net assets 223 ($4.4M)
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Revenue (218)Expenses (193)Net assets (223)Peer revenue range

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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 10% · 2021 7% · 2022 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

97% of WISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD KINGDOM WORKERS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,725 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$238k
17
$336k
18
$385k
19
$331k
20
$1.4M
21
$256k
22
$354k
23
$893k
24
$1.2M
25
3.2
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $366k → $1.9M.

12 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)10% 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 EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD KINGDOM WORKERS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 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 EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD KINGDOM WORKERS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

67% 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 EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD KINGDOM WORKERS INC.

55%
largest funder
78%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 64% · 2019 61% · 2020 56% · 2021 51% · 2022 61% · 2023 58%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.

How long its funders stay

73% of WISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD KINGDOM WORKERS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 76% 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 EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD KINGDOM WORKERS INC draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 9 states in all.

MN
WI
MI
OH
CA
MO
MD
AZ
TX

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

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18
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20
21
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23
Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 41 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding WISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD KINGDOM WORKERS INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $217k on record.

Federal$217k
grants $217kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$217k

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 EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD KINGDOM WORKERS INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Wisconsin

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

72% of spending goes to programs.

Program 72%Management 10%Fundraising 18%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

74%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 28 states

AK
NH
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
MA
OR
PA
NJ
RI
CA
UT
KY
WV
VA
MD
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
HI
AL
GA
FL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD KINGDOM WORKERS 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds WISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD KINGDOM WORKERS INC?
WISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD KINGDOM WORKERS INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,590,848 to it, the largest being THE MARVIN M SCHWAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($6,906,750). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD KINGDOM WORKERS INC have?
IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $12,590,848 in grants to WISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD KINGDOM WORKERS INC, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD KINGDOM WORKERS INC?
THE MARVIN M SCHWAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,906,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD KINGDOM WORKERS 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 41funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing