Wisconsin Humanities Council

Analysis

Wisconsin Humanities Council is a registered charity in United States, based in Middleton, WI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1976, 50 years ago. Its declared purposes cover arts, culture and humanities, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending October 2023, Wisconsin Humanities Council reported income of $2.0m and spending of $1.9m, spending 92% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from October 2019 to October 2023, income grew from $967k to $2.0m (+110%), an average of +20% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to October 2022, when income rose by 53%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Wisconsin Humanities Council sits at the 92nd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 86th percentile, and in the 87th percentile within WI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Metro Theater Company ($2.0m), Early Childhood Connections ($2.0m) and Rhinebeck Aerodrome Museum ($2.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending October 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. It paid $16k in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $403k against liabilities of $18k, net assets of $385k.