· Public charity
Together Wisconsin Acts Inc
Together wisconsin acts, inc.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $250k+6 grants · $5.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PROJECT 72 WI INC | $1,644,000 |
| THE WISCO PROJECT | $1,390,000 |
| BADGER STATE RESEARCH | $967,000 |
| A BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER POLITICAL FUND | $500,000 |
| A BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER ACTION | $500,000 |
| A BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER INC | $325,000 |
| CIVITAS PUBLIC AFFAIRS GROUP | $7,200 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 36% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +154% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- ABA BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER INC6× · 2019–2024 · $9.2M · revenue +366% · 57% of their budget
- FOFOR OUR FUTURE ACTION FUND2× · 2021–2022 · $424k · revenue +154%
- WPWISCONSIN PROGRESS INC2× · 2018–2021 · $65k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- AFALLIANCE FOR COMMON SENSEone grant, 2022 · $1.8M
- FOFOR OUR FUTUREone grant, 2018 · $500k
- TWTHE WISCONSIN INITIATIVE INCone grant, 2022 · $360k · revenue -22%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Wisconsin progress institute exists to empower wisconsin's locally elected leaders with the tools, training, and support they need to be effective, values-driven public servants.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
Wisconsin principles (wp) is a 501(c)(4) non-profit organization dedicated to preserving conservative values in the state of wisconsin. committed to fiscal conservatism, educational choice, and individual liberty, we strive to empower…
To promote the common good and general welfare of the people of wisconsin.
To promote social welfare including but not limited to informing the public and policymakers on the importance of wisconsin's construction work to the state's economy, the vitality of its communities, and the lives of its citizens.
Together wisconsin acts, inc. (twa) advocates for legislation, regulations and government programs to maintain and improve the common good, quality of life, and social welfare of the people in the state of wisconsin. twa activities include…
350 Wisconsin Action mobilizes concerned climate voters to push for bold climate action from government and elected officials. We keep the climate crisis at the center of the political conversation, and push for progressive policies that…
Citizen action of wisconsin - an issue-focused coalition of individuals and organizations committed to achieving racial, social, economic, and environmental justice
To preserve fundamental democratic principles, support wisconsin's commitment to clean and open government, and promote a progressive vision through impact litigation, administrative processes and public education.
See schedule o.to build power together to create the change need for everyone in the communities to make ends meet, live with dignity, and have a voice in shaping the decisions that impaction.
To keep state residents educated and informed, in a nonpartisan manner, on a broad range of wisconsin public issues and policy matters.
Citizen action of wisconsin education fund is an issue-focusedgrassroots organization committed to achieving social, racial,economic and environmental justice and works on developing a moreinformed, engaged and empowered public.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is One Wisconsin Now Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rise Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds A BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT 72 WI INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WISCONSIN COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds WISCO PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH GROUND ACTION FUND ↗
- Who funds FOR OUR FUTURE ACTION FUND ↗
- Who funds THE WISCONSIN INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN PROGRESS INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD ADVOCATES OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds LEADERS IGNITING TRANSFORMATION ACTION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds A BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ONE WISCONSIN NOW INC ↗
- Who funds POWER TO THE POLLS INC ↗
- Who funds WISDOM ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds RISE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: America Votes · Sixteen Thirty Fund · Strategic Victory Fund · Wisconsin Laborers' District Council · Together Wisconsin Inc · Wisconsin Opportunity Coalition Inc · Planned Parenthood Action Fund Inc · American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees · Open Society Action Fund Inc · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Tides Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Together Wisconsin Acts Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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