Arts & Culture Funding in Wisconsin
Total granted
$536.2M
Funders
378
Grants
5,312
Organizations funded
534
Wisconsin · Grantmakers
Foundations That Fund Arts & Culture in Wisconsin
Imperigo has identified 378 funders that made 5,312 grants totaling $536.2M to 534 arts & culture organizations in Wisconsin, with a median grant of $15K. Every figure below is drawn from IRS Form 990 filings through 2025.
Top Funders — page 1 of 4
$129.6M
$35.8M
$29.9M
$26.1M
$29.4M
$9.7M
$8.5M
$4.0M
$2.9M
$2.8M
$4.9M
$2.2M
$1.9M
$1.6M
$1.4M
$1.6M
Funders are ordered by how much of their overall giving goes to arts & culture work in Wisconsin, not by dollar totals alone — a foundation that concentrates its giving here is usually a better prospect than a larger one for which this is a rounding error. 14 of the funders counted here are donor-advised fund sponsors, which grant on behalf of individual donors and accept no applications; they are marked and ranked last.
Other Causes Funded in Wisconsin
About This Data
A grant appears here when a funder reported it on its IRS Form 990 and the recipient organization is classified under the NTEE group covering arts & culture work, with an address in Wisconsin. Grants are counted from the 2025 filing year backward.
Some 990 grant schedules list a recipient by name and address without an EIN, and those grants cannot be matched to a classification — so the totals above represent identifiable arts & culture funding in Wisconsin, not every dollar that reached the sector. Figures are a floor, not a ceiling.
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