Wisconsin · Nonprofit
Wisconsin Museum of Nature and Culture
Wisconsin Museum of Nature and Culture (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $129,605,045 to it, the largest being Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Inc ($129,605,045). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Wisconsin Museum of Nature and Culture receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $129.6M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 34 arts & culture nonprofits over $100M, 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.
- Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Inclocalportfolio match
- Northwest Side Community Development Corporationlocal
- Barbara Meyer Elsner Foundationportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Wisconsin Museum of Nature and Culture’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 Museum of Nature and Culture's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
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.
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.
- Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Inclocalportfolio matchWI · funds 86 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Northwest Side Community Development CorporationlocalWI · funds 81 organizations near you
- Barbara Meyer Elsner Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- ANTONIA FOUNDATION INCco F MICHAEL ARNOWportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brewers Community Foundation InclocalWI · funds 97 organizations near you
- Laskin Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brookbank Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wisconsin Humanities Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Heil Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nast Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Coles Family Foundation co Peter Colesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hammes Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Organizations like Wisconsin Museum of Nature and Culture
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Hhm Parking Unit LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Wisconsin Museum of Nature and Culture: 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.
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 Museum of Nature and Culture?
- Wisconsin Museum of Nature and Culture (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $129,605,045 to it, the largest being Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Inc ($129,605,045). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Wisconsin Museum of Nature and Culture have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $129,605,045 in grants to Wisconsin Museum of Nature and Culture, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Wisconsin Museum of Nature and Culture?
- Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Inc is the largest funder on record, with $129,605,045 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Wisconsin Museum of Nature and Culture 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 1funders 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