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 4 of 4
$629K
$2.1M
116.
Tides Foundation
$1.1M
$521K
$755K
$474K
$449K
$38.9M
$5.3M
$13.5M
$610K
$5.3M
$1.5M
$2.9M
$832K
$1.2M
$2.4M
$702K
$34.6M
$10.6M
$1.6M
$1.0M
$850K
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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