Wisconsin · Nonprofit
WISCONSIN INTERSCHOLASTIC SPEECH & DRAMATIC ARTS ASSOCIATION
WISCONSIN INTERSCHOLASTIC SPEECH & DRAMATIC ARTS ASSOCIATION (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $130 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($130). 1 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 FY2025
- $277k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $130
- Net assets
- $620k
What Wisconsin Interscholastic Speech & Dramatic Arts Association does
Mission
Organization's mission: Wisconsin Interscholastic Speech & Dramatic Arts Association (wisdaa) provides an inclusive platform that welcomes all middle and high school students to enhance and refine communication skills, to foster creativity, and to share perspectives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The wisconsin high school forensic association offers opportunities for students at 500 middle and high schools to enhance communication and performance skills through participation in theatre, debate, and speech activities; provides teaching resources; and operates interscholastic contests with multi-institutional assessment of skill mastery. Participation includes-theatre festival: 1,240 students and educators from 70 schools; speech festival: 4,300 students and educators from 341 schools; speech adjudicator professional development: 429 educators.
$197,330 spent$261,604 earned by the program93% of program spendingThe wisconsin high school forensic association offers opportunities for students at 500 middle and high schools to enhance communication and performance skills through participation in theatre, debate, and speech activities; provides teaching resources; and operates interscholastic contests with multi-institutional assessment of skill mastery. Participation includes-theatre festival: 1,240 students and educators from 70 schools; speech festival: 4,300 students and educators from 341 schools; speech adjudicator professional development: 429 educators.
$14,348 spent7% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $211,678.
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 2023 to 2024, from $530k to $586k (+11%).
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.
0% of WISCONSIN INTERSCHOLASTIC SPEECH & DRAMATIC ARTS ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Pam Belden
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $37 → $32.
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 INTERSCHOLASTIC SPEECH & DRAMATIC ARTS ASSOCIATION’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 INTERSCHOLASTIC SPEECH & DRAMATIC ARTS ASSOCIATION'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. $130 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 INTERSCHOLASTIC SPEECH & DRAMATIC ARTS ASSOCIATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like WISCONSIN INTERSCHOLASTIC SPEECH & DRAMATIC ARTS ASSOCIATION
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 INTERSCHOLASTIC SPEECH & DRAMATIC ARTS ASSOCIATION: 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 INTERSCHOLASTIC SPEECH & DRAMATIC ARTS ASSOCIATION?
- WISCONSIN INTERSCHOLASTIC SPEECH & DRAMATIC ARTS ASSOCIATION (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $130 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($130). 1 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 INTERSCHOLASTIC SPEECH & DRAMATIC ARTS ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $130 in grants to WISCONSIN INTERSCHOLASTIC SPEECH & DRAMATIC ARTS ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WISCONSIN INTERSCHOLASTIC SPEECH & DRAMATIC ARTS ASSOCIATION?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $130 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WISCONSIN INTERSCHOLASTIC SPEECH & DRAMATIC ARTS ASSOCIATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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