· Public charity
Wisconsin Bankers Association
We actively advocate, educate and support our members to help them positively impact the wisconsin communities they serve.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 ASSEMBLY CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE | $12,000 |
| REPUBLICAN PARTY OF WISCONSIN | $12,000 |
| ASSEMBLY DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE | $12,000 |
| STATE SENATE DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE | $12,000 |
| BAY BANK | $10,000 |
| PREMIER BANK | $10,000 |
| THE BANK OF NEW GLARUS | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +506%
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
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 36 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Wisconsin Bankers Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wisconsin Bankers Association. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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