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WISCONSIN 4-H FOUNDATION INC

EIN 39-0914868 MADISON, WI

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Revenue 2024
$1,182,622
Expenses 2024
$1,317,964

Program services were 84.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
O52Z
Classification
2000
Street
702 LANGDON ST

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).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE WISCONSIN 4-H FOUNDATION GENERATES RESOURCES TO INVEST IN THE POSITIVE DEVELOPMENT OF 4-H YOUTH.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO FURTHER THE NEEDS, DEVELOP THE ACTIVITIES AND AUGMENT AND ADVANCE THE PROGRAMS AND INTERESTS OF 4-H YOUTH DEVELOPMENT THROUGHOUT THE STATE OF WISCONSIN.

  • THE FOUNDATION PROVIDES RESOURCES TO WISCONSIN 4-H YOUTH DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS THROUGH GRANTS, SUPPORTING WORK OF STATE AND COUNTY LEVEL UW-EXTENSION 4-H PROGRAMS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AWARDS, ADMINISTRATION OF COUNTY LIVESTOCK AUCTIONS, AND WISCONSIN 4-H MISSION-FOCUSED ENDOWMENTS MANAGED BY THE FOUNDATION.THE WISCONSIN 4-H FOUNDATION ANNUALLY PROVIDES MORE THAN $350,000 TO THE WISCONSIN 4-H PROGRAM. THIS SUPPORT HELPS 4-H CREATE CUTTING-EDGE, RELEVANT PROGRAMS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE TO LEARN REAL-WORLD SKILLS THAT WILL PREPARE THEM FOR THE CHALLENGES OF TODAY AND TOMORROW, MOVING COMMUNITIES, THE STATE, OUR COUNTRY AND THE WORLD FORWARD IN WAYS NO OTHER YOUTH ORGANIZATION CAN. THE WISCONSIN 4-H FOUNDATION ALSO ADMINISTERS TWO LIVESTOCK AUCTIONS IN THE WAUSHARA AND WAUPACA COUNTIES.

    Expenses $1,110,858 · Grants $961,765 · Revenue $8,937

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Charles Crave

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Brian Peter

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Nancy Bilz

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Deb Ivey

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ron Gerrits

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Pam Jahnke

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Brian Preder

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Brenda Scheider

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (THRU NOV)

    Total calculated
    $122,646
    From this org
    $119,885
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,761
    Hours/week
    45

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,182,622
    Expenses
    $1,317,964
    Contributions
    $1,186,674
    Grants paid
    $961,765
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,313,598
    Expenses
    $1,520,413
    Contributions
    $1,140,737
    Grants paid
    $1,150,152
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $564,835
    Expenses
    $685,114
    Contributions
    $584,484
    Grants paid
    $363,116

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
    $529,277
    Expenses
    $758,397
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,255,333
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $300,243
    Expenses
    $399,371
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,722,677
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $627,267
    Expenses
    $525,473
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,611,718
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $440,222
    Expenses
    $413,349
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,773,392
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $487,493
    Expenses
    $550,779
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,043,695
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $502,785
    Expenses
    $505,368
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,507,279
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $417,813
    Expenses
    $345,499
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,355,373
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $308,302
    Expenses
    $335,272
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,153,040
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,846,804
    Expenses
    $385,633
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,767,640
  • 2011 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $157,031
    Expenses
    $167,971
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,744

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2014

Tax period
1 January 2014 to 31 December 2014
Principal officer
Ian Meeker
Mailing address
117 E 5thWashburn WI 54891

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 9 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

  • EQUITY COOPERATIVE LIVESTOCK ASSOCIATION

    $757,026

    2023 LIVESTOCK AUCTION PROCEEDS TO BE DISTRIBUTED TO THE CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF THE SOLD ANIMALS

  • EQUITY COOPERATIVE LIVESTOCK ASSOCIATION

    $628,178

    2024 LIVESTOCK AUCTION PROCEEDS TO BE DISTRIBUTED TO THE CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF THE SOLD ANIMALS

  • UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-EXTENSION

    $232,657

    2023 SUPPORT 4-H ACTIVITIES

  • UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-EXTENSION

    $221,320

    2022 SUPPORT 4-H ACTIVITIES

  • UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-EXTENSION

    $201,990

    2024 SUPPORT 4-H ACTIVITIES

  • WI ASSOC OF EXTENSION 4-H YOUTH DEVELOPMENT PROFESSIONALS (WAE4-HYDP)

    $27,000

    2022 SUPPORT 4-H ACTIVITIES

  • 2023 LIVESTOCK AUCTION PROCEEDS TO BE DISTRIBUTED TO THE CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF THE SOLD ANIMALS

  • 2023 SUPPORT 4-H ACTIVITIES

  • 2024 SUPPORT 4-H ACTIVITIES

  • WAUPACA COUNTY LARGE MARKET ANIMAL SALE COMMITTEE DBA UW-EXTENSION WAUPACA

    $18,134

    2023 LIVESTOCK AUCTION PROCEEDS TO BE DISTRIBUTED TO THE CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF THE SOLD ANIMALS

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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 PC.

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.