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Wisconsin Early Childhood Association Inc

Advancing comprehensive and transformational support of the early childhood workforce.

$10M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Itemized grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$45k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$45,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$45,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 8
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$14M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Wisconsin Early Childhood Association Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 66% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $171k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPublic BenefitOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving1$45k0%
FY20246$261k50%
FY20231$45k0%
FY20221$45k100%
FY20213$95k33%
FY20205$124k0%
FY20195$263k40%
FY20188$555kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$1.3MHuman Services$75kEmployment$30k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Wisconsin$221,7294n/a
Milwaukee Area Technical College$165,0004n/a
Milwaukee Area Technical College Foundation Inc$156,03021%
Madison Area Technical College$147,0273n/a
Dane County Parent Council Inc$135,00011%
Gateway Technical College$114,9772n/a
College of the Menominee Nation$111,30011%
University of Wisconsin Madison$101,5464n/a
Total Administrative Service Corporation$75,0001n/a
Western Technical College$60,0001n/a
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All grantees of Wisconsin Early Childhood Association Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Wisconsin$221,7294n/a
Milwaukee Area Technical College$165,0004n/a
Milwaukee Area Technical College Foundation Inc$156,03021%
Madison Area Technical College$147,0273n/a
Dane County Parent Council Inc$135,00011%
Gateway Technical College$114,9772n/a
College of the Menominee Nation$111,30011%
University of Wisconsin Madison$101,5464n/a
Total Administrative Service Corporation$75,0001n/a
Western Technical College$60,0001n/a
Northeast Wisconsin Technical College Education Foundation Inc$56,20732%
Mid-State Technical College$30,0001n/a
Northwest Wisconsin Workforce Investment Board Inc$29,95011%
Milwaukee Community Service Corps Inc$25,0001n/a
Community Coordinated Child Care Inc$5,00010%

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.

Ascendium Education Solutions IncWI15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · Delta Dental of Wisconsin Foundation Inc · American Association of Community Colleges · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Wisconsin Early Childhood Association Inc

How much does Wisconsin Early Childhood Association Inc give?
Wisconsin Early Childhood Association Inc reported 1 itemized grants totaling $45,000, out of $10,413,242 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Wisconsin Early Childhood Association Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (93%), Human Services (5%), Employment (2%).
Who are Wisconsin Early Childhood Association Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: University of Wisconsin ($222k), Milwaukee Area Technical College ($165k), Milwaukee Area Technical College Foundation Inc ($156k).
Does Wisconsin Early Childhood Association Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Wisconsin Early Childhood Association Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ascendium Education Solutions Inc, Delta Dental of Wisconsin Foundation Inc, American Association of Community Colleges.
Where is Wisconsin Early Childhood Association Inc based?
Wisconsin Early Childhood Association Inc is based in WI.

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 15 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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