· Public charity
Together Wisconsin Inc
TOGETHER WISCONSIN 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
- $10k–50k3 grants · $73k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE WISCO PROJECT | $500,000 |
| ORGANIZING EMPOWERMENT FUND | $410,000 |
| LAW FORWARD | $300,000 |
| WI PROGRESS INSTITUTE INC | $150,000 |
| BADGER STATE RESEARCH | $100,000 |
| FAIR ELECTIONS CENTER | $30,000 |
| WISCONSIN FOR ALL | $25,000 |
| A BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER | $18,000 |
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 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 50% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 4 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, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $975k 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
- OEORGANIZING EMPOWERMENT FUND INC2× · 2023–2024 · $660k · revenue +171%
PASTORS UNITED COMMUNITY ADVOCACY INC2× · 2021–2023 · $75k · revenue +60%- FEFair Elections Center2× · 2019–2024 · $50k · revenue +269%
Funded once
- FOFOR OUR FUTURE ACTION FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $190k · revenue +86%
CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +41%- HGHigher Ground Action Fundone grant, 2019 · $75k
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 recruits, trains, elects, and develops progressive candidates and leaders at the local and state legislative levels.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
To advance progressive values, ideas and policies through research, policy, networking, advocacy and public education.
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…
Power to the polls, inc.'s mission is to educate people in wisconsin about the election process, to help people to register to vote, advocate on public policies including those that ensure fair and secure election procedures and support…
We are organized to support public policy that protects public education, the environment, the rights of all citizens and expands economic opportunity and fairness for everyone.
The organization's mission is to leverage web-technologies to improve civic engagement and voter education.
Nonpartisan political watchdog group dedicated to clean government that advocates for a real democracy that allows the common good to prevail over narrow interests by reinforcing and protecting the values of honesty, fairness,…
We seek, discover, and disclose true and accurate information to enhance the effectiveness of government and public policy in southeastern Wisconsin; and we facilitate public policy discussion and action.
The jobs first coalition (jfc) works to make the creation and retention of family-supporting jobs the top priority of policymakers and community leaders in wisconsin.
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 - an issue-focused coalition of individuals and organizations committed to achieving racial, social, economic, and environmental justice
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Organizing Empowerment Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pastors United Community Advocacy 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, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 19 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 ORGANIZING EMPOWERMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FOR OUR FUTURE EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds WISCO PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN VOICES INC ↗
- Who funds LAW FORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds FOR OUR FUTURE ACTION FUND ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN PROGRESS INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC ↗
- Who funds PASTORS UNITED COMMUNITY ADVOCACY INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING ↗
- Who funds TESSERACT RESEARCH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Fair Elections Center ↗
- Who funds VOTEAMERICA ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN FOR ALL INC ↗
- Who funds THE WISCONSIN INITIATIVE 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: Hopewell Fund · Together Wisconsin Acts Inc · America Votes · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Tides Foundation · New Venture Fund · The Leonard & Sophie Davis Fund · American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Sixteen Thirty Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc
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 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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Find your warmest path to Together Wisconsin 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.