Wisconsin · Nonprofit
WISCONSIN LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC
WISCONSIN LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $500,421 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($300,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $500k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Wisconsin Land and Water Conservation Association Inc does
Mission
To protect, conserve, and enhance wisconsin's natural resources by advocating for and supporting county conservation efforts, for current and future generations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The wisconsin land and water conservation association is focused on the following activities: (1) conservation training - managing the directives of sitcom (county, state, federal and private conservation agencies) to deliver high priority conservation training to resource professionals; (2) standards oversight council coordination - managing the directives of soc (county, state, and federal conservation technical experts) to complete work on technical practice standards development as well as maintain the socwisconsin.org website, and update work plans; (3) advocacy - advancing the interests of county conservation and providing input to agencies on technical issues, (4) pprofessional development - facilitating conservation training and outreach materials, convening annual conference of over 500 professionals; and (5) youth conservation education - conducting poster and speaking programs, the wisconsin envirothon, and middle school and high school camps.
$647,724 spentof which $2,818 as grants$292,096 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $647,724.
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 2021 to 2022, from $660k to $1.1M (+61%).
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: 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2021 57% · 2022 52% · 2023 45% · 2024 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of WISCONSIN LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Matthew Krueger
Executive director
Board chair
Monte Osterman
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $3k → $137k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $466k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United States Energy Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money WISCONSIN LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of WISCONSIN LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION 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.
How concentrated its funding is
WISCONSIN LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
39% 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 LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2022 71% · 2023 73% — 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.
Where its funders are
WISCONSIN LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $177k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
WISCONSIN LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding WISCONSIN LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.6M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$1.6M
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 LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION 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.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WISCONSIN LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION 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 LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC?
- WISCONSIN LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $500,421 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($300,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WISCONSIN LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $500,421 in grants to WISCONSIN LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WISCONSIN LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC?
- The McKnight Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WISCONSIN LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION 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 6 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