- Revenue 2024
- $2,306,991
- Expenses 2024
- $2,420,130
Program services were 76.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- A20Z
- Classification
- 2000
- Street
- 750 N LINCOLN MEMORIAL DR
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
MILWAUKEE COUNTY WAR MEMORIAL, INC. (WMC) IMPROVES THE LOCAL QUALITY OF LIFE AS WISCONSIN'S MOST VISIBLE MEMORIAL TO ALL WHO HAVE SERVED IN THE US ARMED SERVICES, AND IS COMMITTED TO FURTHERING A SINGLE, SOLEMN MISSION: "HONOR THE DEAD. SERVE THE LIVING." LOCATED ON THE SHORES OF LAKE MICHIGAN AND DESIGNED BY PRE-EMINENT ARCHITECT EERO SAARINEN, THIS LIVING MEMORIAL SERVES VETERANS AND THEIR FAMILIES, AND EDUCATES THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE PRICE THAT OUR BRAVE AMERICANS IN UNIFORM HAVE PAID TO ENSURE OUR FREEDOM. WMC WAS ENVISIONED IN 1944, AND OPENED ON VETERANS DAY IN 1957, IN DEDICATION TO THE LEGACY OF SERVICE AND SACRIFICE.
Activities or mission (Part I)
TO ESTABLISH & MAINTAIN A PERMANENT MEMORIAL FOR THE RESIDENTS OF MILWAUKEE COUNTY WHO WERE OR ARE MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PARTICIPATING, OR WHO PARTICIPATED, IN ANY WAR, INCLUDING THE STUDY & ADOPTION OF PLANS THEREFORE, THE ERECTION & OPERATION & MAINTENANCE OF MONUMENTS, SUITABLE BUILDINGS, EDIFICES & GROUNDS AS MEMORIALS.
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THE WAR MEMORIAL CENTER IS WISCONSIN'S MOST VISIBLE AND ENDURING TRIBUTE TO THE STATE'S VETERANS. BEYOND ITS ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (DESIGNED BY WORLD RENOWNED ARCHITECT EERO SAARINEN), IT HAS GROWN INTO A STATEWIDE HUB FOR VETERAN SERVICES AND REMEMBRANCE. IT IS A PLACE TO EDUCATE OUR YOUTH AND ADULTS ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF SERVICE AND PROVIDE AN OASIS FOR VETERANS IN NEED OF SUPPORT.200,000+ SERVED THROUGH EDUCATIONAL AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS DELIVERED ANNUALLY ON-SITE, ACROSS THE COMMUNITY, AND ONLINE.50,000 VETERANS AND THEIR FAMILIES SERVED EACH YEAR THROUGH PUBLIC MESSAGING CAMPAIGNS LAUNCHED TO REDUCE THE NUMBER OF VETERAN SUICIDES AND PROMOTE VETERAN MENTAL HEALTH.$580,000 OF IN-KIND SERVICES PROVIDED EACH YEAR TO SUPPORT VETERAN-SERVING AND AREA NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS.
Expenses $1,847,074
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.
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CHARLES A GORDON
CHAIRMAN
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 8
-
MARY B READ
VICE-CHAIRMAN
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
MICHAEL B KOSZUTA
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
MICHAEL C GIBSON
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
MICHAEL W GREBE
IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIRMAN
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 8
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CANDEE S ARNDT
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
BERDIE COWSER
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JOSHUA DAVIS
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
ROBERT M GARVIN
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
GEORGE J GASPAR
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1.2
-
EUGENE MANZANET
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JEFFREY MARKS
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.1
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CO NGUYEN
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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RAY PASBRIG
TRUSTEE (THRU MAR 2024)
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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JEAN RUKA
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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JOHN WEISHAN JR
TRUSTEE (THRU JULY 2024)
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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LAURIEANN KILDEGAARD
VP OF FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION
- Total calculated
- $142,937
- From this org
- $114,540
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $28,397
- Hours/week
- 45
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DANIEL W BUTTERY
PRESIDENT & CEO (THRU NOV 2024)
- Total calculated
- $109,010
- From this org
- $103,505
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $5,505
- Hours/week
- 35
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VICKI CHAPPELL
VP OF PHILANTHROPY
- Total calculated
- $145,062
- From this org
- $106,970
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $38,092
- 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
- $2,306,991
- Expenses
- $2,420,130
- Contributions
- $1,264,540
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2023
- Revenue
- $2,521,383
- Expenses
- $2,252,154
- Contributions
- $1,598,896
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2022
- Revenue
- $2,438,185
- Expenses
- $2,490,190
- Contributions
- $1,668,972
- Grants paid
- $0
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
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2024 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
-
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
-
2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,963,801
- Expenses
- $2,156,778
- Assets (EOY)
- $13,376,717
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2021 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
-
2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,406,675
- Expenses
- $2,769,152
- Assets (EOY)
- $14,315,972
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2020 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
-
2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,039,522
- Expenses
- $2,136,722
- Assets (EOY)
- $14,019,306
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,902,400
- Expenses
- $2,072,075
- Assets (EOY)
- $14,080,613
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $13,938,766
- Expenses
- $1,579,432
- Assets (EOY)
- $14,427,407
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
No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.
Grants received
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2024 ADVANCE HEALTH WI
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2022 ADVANCE HEALTH WI
-
$64,000
2022 GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES
-
2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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2023 GENERAL SUPPORT
-
2024 GENERAL SUPPORT
-
$15,000
2024 OTHER POW/MIA EXHIBIIT
-
2022 GENERAL SUPPORT
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DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING
$10,500
2024 ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES
-
2022 SPONSORSHIPS
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
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 13 October 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 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.