Wisconsin · Nonprofit
WISCONSIN LEADERSHIP SEMINARS INC
WISCONSIN LEADERSHIP SEMINARS INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $70,106 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($35,411). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2020
- $31k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $70k
- Net assets
- $91k
What Wisconsin Leadership Seminars Inc does
Mission
To identify outstanding high school sophomores throughout Wisconsin for being responsible citizens in their community and/or school and provide them with the opportunity and encouragement to recognize their leadership potential.
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990-EZ.
Program
We coordinate an annual 3-day leadership seminar that is provided at no cost to the students or schools. WILS encourages leadership development through emphasis on personal responsibility, service/volunteerism, inclusiveness, and sound decision making. All seminar speakers and staff are unpaid volunteers. Our main seminar costs include lodging, meeting space, meals, printing and postage. Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, no seminar was held during FY2019-2020.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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 2019 to 2020, from $70k to $91k (+29%).
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. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $287 → $17k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 LEADERSHIP SEMINARS 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 LEADERSHIP SEMINARS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 LEADERSHIP SEMINARS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 87% · 2020 94% · 2021 55% · 2022 76% · 2023 98% — 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.
Where its funders are
97% of WISCONSIN LEADERSHIP SEMINARS INC'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. Of the $2k that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $68k 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.
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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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WISCONSIN LEADERSHIP SEMINARS 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 LEADERSHIP SEMINARS INC?
- WISCONSIN LEADERSHIP SEMINARS INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $70,106 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($35,411). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WISCONSIN LEADERSHIP SEMINARS INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $70,106 in grants to WISCONSIN LEADERSHIP SEMINARS INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WISCONSIN LEADERSHIP SEMINARS INC?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $35,411 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WISCONSIN LEADERSHIP SEMINARS 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 FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), and the filings of 5 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