Wisconsin · Nonprofit
WISCONSIN VFW FOUNDATION INC
WISCONSIN VFW FOUNDATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,498,495 to it, the largest being BIERMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($2,700,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
WISCONSIN VFW FOUNDATION INC's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 10 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,762 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.
- Brewers Community Foundation Incshared funderslocal
- Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United Statesportfolio match
- Wisconsin Infrastructure Investment Now Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.
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: 2023 1% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of WISCONSIN VFW FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $21k → $141k.
7 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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: $236k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Department of Wisconsin). These are real filings, and they are not money WISCONSIN VFW FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of WISCONSIN VFW FOUNDATION 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 VFW FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 97% · 2019 90% · 2020 95% · 2021 74% · 2022 47% · 2023 34% — 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.
How long its funders stay
30% of WISCONSIN VFW FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
100% of WISCONSIN VFW FOUNDATION 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. $460k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
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. Your 23 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Brewers Community Foundation Incshared funderslocalWI · backs 48 organizations that share your funders · funds 99 organizations near you
- Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United Statesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wisconsin Infrastructure Investment Now Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Disabled American Veterans of Minnesota Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Intl Union of Operating Engin Local 139portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Legion Post #580portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- James & Leigh Peterson Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kikkoman Foods Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fritz Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fotsch Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jerome J and Dorothy H Holz Family Foundation C/O Donald Tushausshared fundersWI · backs 35 organizations that share your funders
- Nicholas Family Foundation Trustshared fundersWI · backs 25 organizations that share your funders
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 VFW FOUNDATION INC
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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
59%
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
- Department of Wisconsin of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United State · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WISCONSIN VFW FOUNDATION 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.
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 VFW FOUNDATION INC?
- WISCONSIN VFW FOUNDATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,498,495 to it, the largest being BIERMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($2,700,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WISCONSIN VFW FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $3,498,495 in grants to WISCONSIN VFW FOUNDATION INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WISCONSIN VFW FOUNDATION INC?
- BIERMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,700,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WISCONSIN VFW FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 23funders 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