Wisconsin · Public charity
Wbd Inc
Wbd is a business finance resource that provides the knowledge, services and access to capital needed to create jobs, grow businesses and build communities.
- $569k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 83%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $531k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 6
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $23M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 83% of the organizations Wbd Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 93% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $225k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $531k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $243k | 83% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $400k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $169k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $405k | 80% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $100k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $80k | 0% |
| FY2017 | 3 | $23k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin Women's Business Initiative Corporation | $364,760 | 7 | 1% |
| Wisconsin Economic Development Association Inc | $337,000 | 4 | 36% |
| Northeast Entrepreneur Fund Inc | $300,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Wisconsin Veterans Chamber of Commerce Inc | $250,000 | 2 | 19% |
| New North Inc | $75,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Middleton Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Duluth Area Chamber Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 18% |
| Family Friendly Workplaces Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 26% |
| Shakopee Chamber Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hmong American Partnership | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 17 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin Women's Business Initiative Corporation | $364,760 | 7 | 1% |
| Wisconsin Economic Development Association Inc | $337,000 | 4 | 36% |
| Northeast Entrepreneur Fund Inc | $300,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Wisconsin Veterans Chamber of Commerce Inc | $250,000 | 2 | 19% |
| New North Inc | $75,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Middleton Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Duluth Area Chamber Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 18% |
| Family Friendly Workplaces Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 26% |
| Shakopee Chamber Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hmong American Partnership | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| For-M Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 7% |
| University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Chayil Inc | $45,000 | 1 | 48% |
| University of Wisconsin | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Wisconsin Madison | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wisconsin Bankers Association | $13,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wisconsin Rural Partners Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 27% |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($155k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Wbd Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Otto Bremer Trust · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Wbd Inc
- How much does Wbd Inc give?
- Wbd Inc reported 8 itemized grants totaling $530,760, out of $569,065 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 6 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Wbd Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (77%), Employment (18%), Education (3%).
- Who are Wbd Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Wisconsin Women's Business Initiative Corporation ($365k), Wisconsin Economic Development Association Inc ($337k), Northeast Entrepreneur Fund Inc ($300k).
- Does Wbd Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Wbd Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Otto Bremer Trust, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Wbd Inc based?
- Wbd Inc is based in WI.
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