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Wisconsin Early Childhood Association Inc at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

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Wisconsin Early Childhood Association Inc

Advancing comprehensive and transformational support of the early childhood workforce.

$10M
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $45,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $10,413,242 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $10,368,242 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$45,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE$45,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.

area typical 9%4C WONDER OF LEARNING: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$963k · 7 repeat orgs$471k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +83% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
8

Total granted

$963k
$471k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+83%
+13%

Still filing today

29%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesPublic 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN
    4× · 2018–2024 · $222k
  • MA
    MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $165k
  • MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2018–2021 · $156k · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • DC
    DANE COUNTY PARENT COUNCIL INC
    one grant, 2019 · $135k · revenue +18%
  • CO
    COLLEGE OF THE MENOMINEE NATION
    one grant, 2024 · $111k · revenue +13%
  • TA
    TOTAL ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE CORPORATION
    one grant, 2019 · $75k
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.

04Its field
04the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
4/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: $221,729 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSINMILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $165,000 · OtherMILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGEMadison Area Technical College: $147,027 · OtherMadison Area Technical CollegeGATEWAY TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $114,977 · OtherGATEWAY TECHNICAL COLLEGECOLLEGE OF THE MENOMINEE NATION: $111,300 · OtherCOLLEGE OF THE MENOMINEE NATIONUniversity of Wisconsin Madison: $101,546 · OtherUniversity of Wisconsin MadisonTOTAL ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE CORPORATION: $75,000 · OtherTOTAL ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE CORPORATIONWESTERN TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $60,000 · OtherWESTERN TECHNICAL COLLEGE+2 more: $55,000 · OtherMILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $156,030 · EducationMILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL CO…DANE COUNTY PARENT COUNCIL INC: $135,000 · EducationDANE COUNTY PARENT COUNCIL …NORTHEAST WISCONSIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $56,207 · EducationNORTHEAST WISCONSIN TECHNIC…NORTHWEST WISCONSIN WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARD INC: $29,950 · Public BenefitCOMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE INC: $5,000 · Human Services
Other$1,051,579Education$347,237Public Benefit$29,950Human Services$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $156,030 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetDANE COUNTY PARENT COUNCIL INC: $135,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCOLLEGE OF THE MENOMINEE NATION: $111,300 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNORTHEAST WISCONSIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $56,207 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetNORTHWEST WISCONSIN WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARD INC: $29,950 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DANE COUNTY PARENT COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE OF THE MENOMINEE NATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST WISCONSIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST WISCONSIN WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARD INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE INC ↗

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 S…Delta Dental of Wisco…American Association …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Wisconsin Early Childhood Association Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wisconsin Early Childhood Association Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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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