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DESTINATION MADISON FOUNDATION INC

EIN 20-1127385 MADISON, WI

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Revenue 2025
$79,001
Expenses 2025
$78,667

Program services were 100.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
S31
Classification
1200
Street
22 EAST MIFFLIN STREET

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

DESTINATION MADISON FOUNDATION, INC. IS ORGANIZED AND SHALL BE OPERATED EXCLUSIVELY TO FURTHER THE WELL-BEING OF THE GREATER MADISON CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU, INC.IN CONNECTION WITH AND IN FURTHERANCE THEREOF, THE CORPORATION SHALL HAVE THE FOLLOWING PURPOSES:-TO PROVIDE INFORMATION TO THE RESIDENTS OF AND VISITORS TO THE GREATER MADISON/DANE COUNTY AREA REGARDING THE DIVERSE CULTURAL, EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC, CIVIC AND ATHLETIC BENEFITS OF LIVING AND WORKING IN THE GREATER MADISON/DANE COUNTY AREA.-TO PROVIDE RESOURCE SUPPORT FOR EVENTS HOSTED BY THE CITY OF MADISON AND/OR THE GMCVB THAT PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THE GREATER MADISON/DANE COUNTY AREA.-TO CONDUCT RESEARCH AND DISSEMINATE DATA REGARDING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THE GREATER MADISON/DANE COUNTY AREA.-TO RECEIVE, OBTAIN, CONTROL, HOLD, ADMINISTER, INVEST AND REINVEST AND DISBURSE FUNDS AND PROPERTY OF ANY TYPE AS MAY BE RECEIVED BY THE CORPORATION, EITHER ABSOLUTELY OR IN TRUST.

Activities or mission (Part I)

PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND WELL-BEING OF DIVERSE POPULATIONS WITHIN THE GREATER MADISON/DANE COUNTY AREA.

  • ADMINISTER YOUTH SPORT GRANT CONTRIBUTION RECEIPTS AND PROVIDE GRANTS TO AREA CHARITIES SUPPORTING YOUTH SPORTS.

    Expenses $56,380 · Grants $56,380

  • PROVIDE RESOURCE SUPPORT FOR EVENTS HOSTED BY THE CITY OF MADISON AND/OR THE GREATER MADISON CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU, INC. THAT PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THE GREATER MADISON/DANE COUNTY AREA.

    Expenses $22,287 · Grants $15,678

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Ellie Westman Chin

    PRESIDENT/CEO

    Total calculated
    $378,745
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $346,781
    Other
    $31,964
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $269,531 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $68,250 related
    Other
    $0 + $9,000 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $17,715 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $14,249 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $378,745 related
  • Judd Schemmel

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Rob Crain

    IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 2 related
  • Joel Weitz

    IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sandy Morales

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Jim Bradley

    SECRETARY/TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Molly Fish

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Daniel Hance

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Lynn Hobbie

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Jason Ilstrup

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Ranette Maurer

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Mari Olson

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Jason Salus

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Chris Vogel

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Tom Ziarnik

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $79,001
    Expenses
    $78,667
    Contributions
    $71,703
    Grants paid
    $72,058
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $186,465
    Expenses
    $196,295
    Contributions
    $440,763
    Grants paid
    $110,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $53,853
    Expenses
    $147,737
    Contributions
    $51,295
    Grants paid
    $141,303

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $45,548
    Expenses
    $111,784
    Assets (EOY)
    $500,025
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,712
    Expenses
    $71,607
    Assets (EOY)
    $557,911
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,427
    Expenses
    $36,837
    Assets (EOY)
    $640,815
  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $35,439
    Expenses
    $34,808
    Assets (EOY)
    $273,654
  • 2016 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $66,723
    Expenses
    $18,673
    Assets (EOY)
    $287,459
  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $80,131
    Expenses
    $16,145
    Assets (EOY)
    $224,973
  • 2014 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $19,505
    Expenses
    $25,315
    Assets (EOY)
    $160,987
  • 2013 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $65,121
    Expenses
    $17,516
    Assets (EOY)
    $166,797
  • 2012 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $61,690
    Expenses
    $32,111
    Assets (EOY)
    $135,028
  • 2011 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $70,599
    Expenses
    $27,562
    Assets (EOY)
    $121,823

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2025 return

Declared as related by

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Disregarded entities on its 2025 return

  • MADISON EVENTS LLC

    BUCKY ON PARADE · WI · income $0 · assets $0

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility SOUNK.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.