Wisconsin Craft Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
863186271
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Brown Deer, WI, USA
Phone
9202296585
Rating
69
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose

Reported finances

Revenue
$90,328
Expenses
$105,359
Assets
$66,254
Liabilities
$55

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • KATE MAROTZ (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • KATE MAROTZ (PRESIDENT)
  • MIKAELA NUMMERDOR (TREASURER)
  • KATE SALAS (EXECUTIVE DI)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To encourage, develop and support traditional and contemporary crafts.

What it reported doing in 2025

A portion of Wisconsin craft inc's resources and time go into organizing and putting on the morning glory fine craft fair that is held on the second weekend in august each year. The fair is free and open to the public for the viewing and sale of approximately 130 artists' work from around the united states. Wisconsin craft inc also organizes workshops for artists to focus on learning new jewelry, fiber, clay techniques, etc. Along with business and social media workshops. Once a year wisconsn craft organizes studio visits that, in the fall of 2025 will include 21 locations with 53 fine craft artists. Studio locations include the artist along with several guest artists. Ncluded will be ceramics, woodworking, iron working, quilting, photograph and jewelry among other fine arts. Visitors get to see working studios and ask questions of the artists. Wisconsin craft organized the 2025 member biennial exhibition with community programming that ran from march through may in plymouth, wi

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 60% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 64
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 32
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 67.8%; rating input score 68
  • Program expense ratio: 57.5%; rating input score 58

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -16.6%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.63; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -1.6% per year; rating input score 0; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 8.5% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 67.8% of revenue deployed · 57.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $61K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 58/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.