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UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION

EIN 39-0743975 MADISON, WI

Revenue 2024
$680,868,045
Expenses 2024
$658,424,352

Program services were 88.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B110
Classification
1000
Street
1848 UNIVERSITY AVE

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.

  • MICHAEL M KNETTER

    CEO (UNTIL 12/31/24)

    Total calculated
    $955,787
    From this org
    $820,496
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $135,291
    Hours/week
    60

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $635,852
    Bonus
    $174,466
    Other
    $10,178
    Deferred
    $121,520
    Nontaxable benefits
    $13,771
    Filer's total
    $955,787

  • ALISA A ROBERTSON

    PRESIDENT/CEO (AS OF 1/1/25)

    Total calculated
    $598,520
    From this org
    $537,702
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $60,818
    Hours/week
    55

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $401,412
    Bonus
    $114,342
    Other
    $21,948
    Deferred
    $40,120
    Nontaxable benefits
    $20,698
    Filer's total
    $598,520

  • PAUL S SHAIN

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LOUIS A HOLLAND

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LINDA L AHLERS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • RAJIV BATRA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MICHELLE A BEHNKE

    DIRECTOR (UNTIL 6/30/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SUSAN J CELLMER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SUZANNE N DEWOLF

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JEFFREY J DIERMEIER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SONNET C EDMONDS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SUSAN S ENGELEITER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MICHAEL B FERDMAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • COLLEEN A GOGGINS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ELIZABETH M QUADRACCI HARNED

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ELZIE L HIGGINBOTTOM

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • WILLIAM P HSU

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CYNTHIA A IHLENFELD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • PETER S KIES

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • VALARIE KING-BAILEY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JUN W LEE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ROGER M MANSUKHANI

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ALICE D MORTENSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LORNA E NAGLER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DAVID O NICHOLAS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
    $680,868,045
    Expenses
    $658,424,352
    Contributions
    $347,553,672
    Grants paid
    $548,751,779
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $776,771,718
    Expenses
    $564,023,383
    Contributions
    $474,785,518
    Grants paid
    $456,253,257
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $490,458,457
    Expenses
    $435,563,925
    Contributions
    $351,294,100
    Grants paid
    $339,979,657

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

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

Nonprofiteer parses the Form 990 only. 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.

Grants made

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

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

Declared as related by

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

  • LFR LLC

    $149,613 raised

    2024 Commercial Fundraiser

    -$250,336 to charity

  • LFR LLC

    $435,483 raised

    2023 Commercial Fundraiser

    $169,676 to charity

  • LFR LLC

    $0 raised

    2022 Commercial Fundraiser

    $0 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

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.