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Badger Advocates Inc

Develop, amplify, and advocate for policy ideas that would strengthen the effectiveness, efficiency, and accountability of uw-madison and enhance its economic impact on the state. Creating lobbying and grassroots public relations efforts designed to impact elected, appointed, corporate, and community leaders.

$25k
Granted FY2021
2
Itemized grants FY2021
2
Organizations funded FY2021
100%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Itemized, FY2021
$24k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2021
$12,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$12,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2018 to FY2021
Total assets, FY2021
$185k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 100% of the organizations Badger Advocates Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20212$24k100%
FY20181$20kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2021.

Public Benefit$24kCommunity Improvement$20k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Midwest Growth Inc$20,000110%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($24k), not named here.

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About Badger Advocates Inc

How much does Badger Advocates Inc give?
Badger Advocates Inc reported 2 itemized grants totaling $24,000, out of $25,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2021.
What does Badger Advocates Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2021, its largest causes are Public Benefit (55%), Community Improvement (45%).
Who are Badger Advocates Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2021: Midwest Growth Inc ($20k).
Does Badger Advocates Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Badger Advocates Inc based?
Badger Advocates Inc is based in WI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 3 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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