Wisconsin · Nonprofit
WISCONSIN INNOVATION AWARDS INC
WISCONSIN INNOVATION AWARDS INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being MADISON GAS AND ELECTRIC FOUNDATION INC ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $59k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $0
What Wisconsin Innovation Awards Inc does
Mission
Wisconsin innovation awards seek to celebrate and inspire innovation accoss the state by highlighting and honoring the development of groundbreaking and innovative ideas.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
To promote and inspire innovation. The organization highlights and honors the development of ground breaking and innovative ideas. The organization strives to facilitate innovation by bringing innovators together from various business sectors adn from throughout the state.
$36,782 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $36,782.
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 $19k to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $3k.
From the IRS filings of WISCONSIN INNOVATION AWARDS 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 INNOVATION AWARDS 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. 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 INNOVATION AWARDS 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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WISCONSIN INNOVATION AWARDS 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 INNOVATION AWARDS INC?
- WISCONSIN INNOVATION AWARDS INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being MADISON GAS AND ELECTRIC FOUNDATION INC ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WISCONSIN INNOVATION AWARDS INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,000 in grants to WISCONSIN INNOVATION AWARDS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WISCONSIN INNOVATION AWARDS INC?
- MADISON GAS AND ELECTRIC FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WISCONSIN INNOVATION AWARDS 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 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