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Together Wisconsin Acts Inc

Together wisconsin acts, inc.

$5.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$1.6M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Civil Rights$12MPublic Benefit$7.8MScience & Tech$2.3MCommunity Improvement$433kEmployment$360kHealth$155kEnvironment$125kPhilanthropy$125kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $250k+6 grants · $5.3M
$500,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$443k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 36% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY: $200k → 20%POWER TO THE POLLS ACTION FUND: $30k → 14%BADGER STATE RESEARCH: $967k → 10%PLANNED PARENTHOOD ADVOCATES OF WISCONSIN: $54k → 17%ALLIANCE FOR COMMON SENSE: $1.8M → 14%BADGER STATE RESEARCH: $753k → 10%HIGH GROUND ACTION FUND: $435k → 17%FOR OUR FUTURE: $500k → 14%BADGER STATE RESEARCH: $550k → 10%HIGH GROUND ACTION FUND: $6k → 17%FOR OUR FUTURE ACTION FUND: $400k → 14%A BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER INC: $5.9M → 10%WAVECREST CONSULTING AND ANALYTICS LLC: $34k → 17%PROJECT DEMOCRACY: $150k → 14%A BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER INC: $1.6M → 10%PROJECT 72 WI INC: $1.6M → 17%CFFE PAC: $125k → 14%A BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER INC: $557k → 10%THE WISCO PROJECT: $1.4M → 17%PROJECT DEMOCRACY: $50k → 14%A BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER POLITICAL FUND: $517k → 10%PROJECT 72 WI INC: $510k → 17%FOR OUR FUTURE ACTION FUND: $24k → 14%A BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER POLITICAL FUND: $500k → 10%CITIZEN ACTION OF WI: $30k → 17%CIVITAS PUBLIC AFFAIRS GROUP: $96k → 14%A BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER INC: $500k → 10%WISCONSIN PROGRESS: $15k → 17%CIVITAS PUBLIC AFFAIRS GROUP: $71k → 14%A BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER ACTION: $500k → 10%LEADERS IGNITING TRANSFORMATION ACTION FUND: $38k → 17%CIVITAS PUBLIC AFFAIRS GROUP: $7k → 14%A BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER POLITICAL FUND: $350k → 10%WISDOM ACTION NETWORK: $10k → 17%RISE INC: $9k → 14%WI LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOT: $125k → 10%A BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER INC: $325k → 10%PLANNED PARENTHOOD ADVOCATES: $101k → 10%A BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER: $250k → 10%ONE WISCONSIN NOW: $30k → 10%A BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER INITIATIVE: $34k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$18M · 10 repeat orgs$5.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +154% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
16

Total granted

$18M
$3.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+154%
0%

Still filing today

40%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsPublic BenefitHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AB
    A BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $9.2M · revenue +932% · 57% of their budget
  • FO
    FOR OUR FUTURE ACTION FUND
    2× · 2021–2022 · $424k · revenue +154%
  • WP
    WISCONSIN PROGRESS INC
    2× · 2018–2021 · $65k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR COMMON SENSE
    one grant, 2022 · $1.8M
  • FO
    FOR OUR FUTURE
    one grant, 2018 · $500k
  • TW
    THE WISCONSIN INITIATIVE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $360k · revenue -22%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Wisconsin Progress Institute Inc

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.

Education
2
Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit
3
Wisconsin Principles Inc

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…

Civil Rights
4
Our Wisconsin Revolution Inc

To promote the common good and general welfare of the people of wisconsin.

Civil Rights
5
Working for Wisconsin Inc

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.

Employment
6
Together Wisconsin Acts Inc

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…

Health
7
350 Wisconsin Action Inc

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…

Environment
8
Citizen Action of Wisconsin Inc

Citizen action of wisconsin - an issue-focused coalition of individuals and organizations committed to achieving racial, social, economic, and environmental justice

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9
Law Forward Inc

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.

Crime & Legal
10
Grassroots Organizing Western Wisconsin

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.

Public Benefit
11
Wisconsineye Public Affairs Network Inc

To keep state residents educated and informed, in a nonpartisan manner, on a broad range of wisconsin public issues and policy matters.

Arts & Culture
12
Citizen Action of Wisconsin Education Fund Inc

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.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is One Wisconsin Now Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/16
Grantees still filing
7/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BADGER STATE RESEARCH: $2,269,500 · OtherBADGER STATE RESEARCHALLIANCE FOR COMMON SENSE: $1,750,000 · OtherALLIANCE FOR COMMON SENSEGREATER WISCONSIN COMMITTEE INC: $1,658,000 · OtherGREATER WISCONSIN COMMITTEE INCWISCO PROJECT INC: $1,390,000 · OtherWISCO PROJECT INCA BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER POLITICAL FUND: $1,367,000 · OtherA BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER POLITICAL FUNDA BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER ACTION: $500,000 · OtherFOR OUR FUTURE: $500,000 · OtherHIGH GROUND ACTION FUND: $441,418 · OtherFOR OUR FUTURE ACTION FUND: $424,000 · Other+10 more: $1,216,246 · Other+10 moreA BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER INC: $9,157,000 · Civil RightsA BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER INCPROJECT 72 WI INC: $2,154,000 · Civil RightsPROJECT 72 WI INC+4 more: $113,500 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC: $200,000 · Public BenefitA BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER INSTITUTE INC: $33,858 · Public BenefitPLANNED PARENTHOOD ADVOCATES OF WISCONSIN INC: $54,000 · Health
Other$11,516,164Civil Rights$11,424,500Public Benefit$233,858Health$54,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetA BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER INC: $9,157,000 over 6y, 57% of budgetPROJECT 72 WI INC: $2,154,000 over 2y, 58% of budgetWISCO PROJECT INC: $1,390,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetHIGH GROUND ACTION FUND: $441,418 over 2y, 14% of budgetFOR OUR FUTURE ACTION FUND: $424,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetTHE WISCONSIN INITIATIVE INC: $360,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWISCONSIN PROGRESS INC: $65,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ADVOCATES OF WISCONSIN INC: $54,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLEADERS IGNITING TRANSFORMATION ACTION FUND INC: $37,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetA BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER INSTITUTE INC: $33,858 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetPOWER TO THE POLLS INC: $30,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetONE WISCONSIN NOW INC: $30,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetRISE INC: $8,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

America VotesSixteen Thirty FundStrategic Victory FundWisconsin Laborers' D…Together Wisconsin IncWisconsin Opportunity…Planned Parenthood Ac…American Federation o…Open Society Action F…All Hands on Deck Net…Tides Foundation
America VotesDC23.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Together Wisconsin Acts Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Together Wisconsin Acts Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Together Wisconsin Acts Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Together Wisconsin Acts Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 28 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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