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MERITER FOUNDATION INC

EIN 23-7098688 MADISON, WI

Revenue 2024
$6,564,063
Expenses 2024
$2,138,701

Program services were 20.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T30
Classification
1000
Street
202 S PARK 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).

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.

  • JAMES ARNETT

    BOARD MEMBER & MARKET PRESIDENT/CEO

    Total calculated
    $707,912
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $616,026
    Other
    $91,886
    Hours/week
    1 + 49 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $435,082 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $171,471 related
    Other
    $0 + $9,473 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $58,729 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $33,157 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $707,912 related

  • BOBBY ADAMOV

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JEFFREY BECKMANN TO 524

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • HOLLY CREMER BERKENSTADT

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SHERRY CASALI

    BOARD MEMBER & MARKET CNO

    Total calculated
    $512,494
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $448,831
    Other
    $63,663
    Hours/week
    1 + 49 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $286,363 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $151,417 related
    Other
    $0 + $11,051 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $48,968 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $14,695 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $512,494 related

  • MARY CULLEN

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BALTAZAR DE ANDA SANTANA

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • REBECCA MADSON

    PRESIDENT, FOUNDATION

    Total calculated
    $294,927
    From this org
    $250,849
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $44,078
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $213,791
    Bonus
    $36,741
    Other
    $317
    Deferred
    $10,317
    Nontaxable benefits
    $33,761
    Filer's total
    $294,927

  • DENA FRISCH

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • VIRGINIA GRAVES

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • THOMAS KEENEY

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JEFFREY LEVY

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHAS MARTIN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TINA NOEL

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JULIE OLSON DNP

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CESAR PINZON

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ELIZABETH PRILLER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KATIE SCHMITT MD

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $507,688
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $453,174
    Other
    $54,514
    Hours/week
    1 + 49 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $432,510 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $19,953 related
    Other
    $0 + $711 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $17,250 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $37,264 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $507,688 related

  • JOHN SIMS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TONY SULLIVAN

    BOARD VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MATT VANDERLOO

    BOARD TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PAM WETZEL MD

    BOARD MEMBER & MARKET CMO

    Total calculated
    $665,360
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $627,345
    Other
    $38,015
    Hours/week
    1 + 49 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $451,528 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $160,864 related
    Other
    $0 + $14,953 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $13,800 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $24,215 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $665,360 related

  • BETH ERDMAN

    MARKET CFO

    Total calculated
    $559,430
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $506,881
    Other
    $52,549
    Hours/week
    1 + 49 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $330,770 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $168,571 related
    Other
    $0 + $7,540 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $13,800 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $38,749 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $559,430 related

  • LISA URBAN

    DIR PHILANTHROPY - GRANTS & PROGRAMS

    Total calculated
    $117,632
    From this org
    $102,613
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,019
    Hours/week
    45

  • BRIANNA YANKE

    SR DIRECTOR DEVELOPMENT

    Total calculated
    $137,626
    From this org
    $126,827
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,799
    Hours/week
    45

The first 25 listed. 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 — 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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $6,564,063
    Expenses
    $2,138,701
    Contributions
    $3,617,423
    Grants paid
    $330,176
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,471,043
    Expenses
    $3,207,715
    Contributions
    $1,790,154
    Grants paid
    $1,401,718
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $5,684,080
    Expenses
    $2,541,048
    Contributions
    $3,391,312
    Grants paid
    $679,440

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.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

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 2024 return

The first 25 as filed. The return lists every one.

Declared as related by

The most recent declarers. The API serves every row.

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 10 September 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.