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Wisconsin Bankers Association
We actively advocate, educate and support our members to help them positively impact the wisconsin communities they serve.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k17 grants · $227k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $167k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOBS FIRST COALITION | $100,000 |
| WISCONSIN PRINCIPLES INC | $67,000 |
| WISCONSIN MANUFACTURERS AND COMMERCE-ISSUES MOBILIZATION FUND | $25,000 |
| CENTER FOR INNOVATIVE POLICY | $20,000 |
| STATE GOVERNNMENT LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF WISCONSIN | $17,000 |
| EMPLOY MILWAUKEE INC | $15,000 |
| COMMITTEE TO ELECT A REPUBLICAN SENATE | $12,000 |
| REPUBLICAN PARTY OF WISCONSIN | $12,000 |
| ASSEMBLY DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE | $12,000 |
| STATE SENATE DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE | $12,000 |
| REPUBLICAN ASSEMBLY CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE | $12,000 |
| THE BANK OF NEW GLARUS | $10,000 |
| BANK OF PRAIRIE DU SAC | $10,000 |
| PREMIER BANK | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +36% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k 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
- TJTHE JOBS FIRST COALITION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $505k · revenue +36%
- WAWisconsin Alliance for Reform Inc5× · 2019–2023 · $361k · revenue +196% · 41% of their budget
- WIWMC ISSUES MOBILIZATION COUNCIL INC6× · 2017–2025 · $200k · revenue +372%
Funded once
- PGPLATFORM GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS AND MARKETING INCone grant, 2021 · $40k
- RSRepublican State Leadershipone grant, 2018 · $25k
- BBBIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF METRO MILWAUKEEone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +8%
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.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
Wisconsin progress recruits, trains, elects, and develops progressive candidates and leaders at the local and state legislative levels.
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.
To advance progressive values, ideas and policies through research, policy, networking, advocacy and public education.
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 wcmp will grow and nurture the mep's impact in the state of wisconsin by engaging and aligning the best possible resources to help small and medium-sized manufacturers reach their potential.
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.
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.
Founded in 1911, our mission is to make wisconsin the most competitive state in the nation to do business. we are wisconsin's business voice.
To keep state residents educated and informed, in a nonpartisan manner, on a broad range of wisconsin public issues and policy matters.
Wwbic opens the doors of opportunity by providing any individuals who are interested in starting, strengthening, or expanding businesses with access to resources such as financial products and quality business and personal financial…
Wisconsin voices provides technical assistance and resources to build capacity and leadership to 501(c)(3) organizations in support of commonly held values of equal opportunity, freedom, progress, and a government that works for all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wisconsin Principles Inc and the most unlike its peers is 1848 Project 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 36 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 THE JOBS FIRST COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR SOUND TAX POLICY INC ↗
- Who funds Wisconsin Alliance for Reform Inc ↗
- Who funds WMC ISSUES MOBILIZATION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN PRINCIPLES INC ↗
- Who funds STATE GOVERNMENT LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EMPLOY MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR INNOVATIVE POLICY ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF METRO MILWAUKEE ↗
- Who funds GREATER WISCONSIN COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST GROWTH INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN VALUES INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF SHEBOYGAN INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BANKERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds 1848 PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds NCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES ↗
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: Wisconsin Insurance Alliance · Wisconsin Beer Distributors Association Inc C/O the Kammer Gr · Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America · Water Sports Industry Association Inc · Dairy Business Association Inc · Alliance of Health Insurers Ua · Wisconsin Homeowners Alliance Inc · Wmc Issues Mobilization Council Inc · Pharmaceutical Care Management Association · The American Council of Engineering Companies of Wisconsin Inc · Wisconsin Association of Health Plans Inc · The Jobs First Coalition 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 Wisconsin Bankers Association 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.