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WISCONSIN HISTORY FOUNDATION INC

EIN 39-0921093 MADISON, WI

Revenue 2024
$35,049,150
Expenses 2024
$14,747,525

Program services were 69.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A118
Classification
2300
Street
816 STATE 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.

  • GARY PESICKA

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JASON ADAMANY

    VICE CHAIR/TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SANDRA ANDERSON

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DIANE DEI ROSSI

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOAN BACHLEITNER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KATHLEEN BURKE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CONRAD GOODKIND

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KARLA ASHENHURST

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PAUL COVALESKI

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JAY ELLINGSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KARL ROBE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAVID RYDER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JEROME JANISZEWSKI

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JANE VILLA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • REED HALL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • WILLIAM KRAEMER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ANGELA BARTELL

    EX-OFFICIO VOTING MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DONALD SCHOTT

    EX-OFFICIO VOTING MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOSHUA JEFFERS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ANDREA RUIZ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SANDRA CLEARY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DANIEL PFEIFFER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DANNY TANG

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JULIE LUSSIER

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $188,681
    From this org
    $170,290
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $18,391
    Hours/week
    39 + 1 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $148,570
    Bonus
    $21,720
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $17,017
    Nontaxable benefits
    $1,374
    Filer's total
    $188,681

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
    $35,049,150
    Expenses
    $14,747,525
    Contributions
    $30,072,466
    Grants paid
    $9,359,586
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $19,561,127
    Expenses
    $14,522,621
    Contributions
    $15,355,611
    Grants paid
    $9,411,559
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $8,488,313
    Expenses
    $7,733,852
    Contributions
    $4,793,974
    Grants paid
    $3,016,386

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

Declared as related by

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.