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Wisconsin World Affairs Council Inc
Wisconsin World Affairs Council Inc (Wisconsin) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $167,195 to it, the largest being JOSEPH AND VERA ZILBER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($77,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $202k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $167k
- Net assets
- $-18409
What Wisconsin World Affairs Council Inc does
Program
One-week seminar for high school students from throughout the US and other countries to teach global issues. Our mission is to build strong international leaders and foster peace and understanding among participants staff and speakers in an environment of open dialogue where innovative rigorous academics are offered through programs that focus on global issues.
$219,263 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $47k to $9k (−82%).
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
Linda Farkas
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $18k → $31k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 World Affairs Council 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 World Affairs Council Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
38% 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 World Affairs Council Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 71% · 2019 48% · 2020 42% · 2021 47% · 2022 58% · 2023 65% — 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
100% of Wisconsin World Affairs Council 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. $64k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like Wisconsin World Affairs Council 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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Wisconsin World Affairs Council 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 World Affairs Council Inc?
- Wisconsin World Affairs Council Inc (Wisconsin) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $167,195 to it, the largest being JOSEPH AND VERA ZILBER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($77,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Wisconsin World Affairs Council Inc have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $167,195 in grants to Wisconsin World Affairs Council Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Wisconsin World Affairs Council Inc?
- JOSEPH AND VERA ZILBER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $77,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Wisconsin World Affairs Council 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), 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