How much does Wisconsin Education Association Council give?

Wisconsin Education Association Council reported 6 itemized grants totaling $158,000, out of $259,485 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Wisconsin Education Association Council fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (26%), Education (25%), Civil Rights (19%).

Who are Wisconsin Education Association Council's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Law Forward Inc ($300k), A Better Wisconsin Together Inc ($200k), Milwaukee Teachers' Education Association ($144k).

Does Wisconsin Education Association Council fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Wisconsin Education Association Council?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Education Association of the United States, Our Children Our Future.

Where is Wisconsin Education Association Council based?

Wisconsin Education Association Council is based in WI.

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Wisconsin · Public charity

Wisconsin Education Association Council

Advocate for great public education for the common good.

$259k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 6
Itemized grants FY2025: 9
Organizations funded FY2024: 22%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $158k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $100,000
Organizations funded a year: 5 to 12; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $11M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Wisconsin Education Association Council funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EmploymentCrime & LegalCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementEducationOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	6	$158k	0%
FY2024	9	$192k	22%
FY2023	5	$93k	0%
FY2022	7	$140k	43%
FY2021	7	$224k	14%
FY2020	9	$233k	22%
FY2019	9	$149k	11%
FY2018	12	$303k	33%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Public Benefit$439kEducation$423kCivil Rights$333kEmployment$176kArts & Culture$176kCommunity Improvement$135kMembership Benefit$30k

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
Law Forward Inc	$300,000	4	3%
A Better Wisconsin Together Inc	$200,000	2	2%
Milwaukee Teachers' Education Association	$144,004	6	2%
Citizen Action of Wisconsin Inc	$133,000	8	4%
Weac Region 7	$104,221	3	4%
Eau Claire Association of Educators	$99,983	9	12%
Democratic Party of Wi-Segregated Fund	$84,470	5	n/a
For Our Future Action Fund	$72,000	1	0%
Wisconsin Infrastructure Investment Now Inc	$62,500	2	12%
Wisconsin Alliance for Excellent Schools Inc	$60,000	6	2%

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All grantees of Wisconsin Education Association Council by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Law Forward Inc	$300,000	4	3%
A Better Wisconsin Together Inc	$200,000	2	2%
Milwaukee Teachers' Education Association	$144,004	6	2%
Citizen Action of Wisconsin Inc	$133,000	8	4%
Weac Region 7	$104,221	3	4%
Eau Claire Association of Educators	$99,983	9	12%
Democratic Party of Wi-Segregated Fund	$84,470	5	n/a
For Our Future Action Fund	$72,000	1	0%
Wisconsin Infrastructure Investment Now Inc	$62,500	2	12%
Wisconsin Alliance for Excellent Schools Inc	$60,000	6	2%
Great Lakes Center for Education Research and Practice	$60,000	6	3%
Kenosha Education Association	$55,833	2	6%
Racine Education Association Ua	$33,000	1	19%
Weac Region 6	$32,451	3	1%
Crueweac Region 4	$32,139	1	6%
Madison Teachers Inc	$30,000	1	2%
Racine Education Uniserv Council Inc	$29,347	3	3%
Weac Region 1	$26,132	2	5%
State Senate Democratic Committee	$24,000	2	n/a
Assembly Democratic Campaign Committee	$24,000	2	n/a
Wea Member Benefits Foundation Inc	$24,000	2	21%
Racine Educational Assistants Association	$21,691	2	n/a
Weac Region 2	$19,820	1	n/a
Wisconsin Progress Inc	$15,000	1	4%
Milwaukee Center for Teaching Learning and Public Education Inc	$10,800	1	n/a
Weac Region 3	$7,009	1	1%
National Public Pension Coalition	$7,000	1	1%

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wisconsin Education Association Council supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 21.

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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.

National Education Association of the United StatesDC21.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Education Association Council

How much does Wisconsin Education Association Council give?: Wisconsin Education Association Council reported 6 itemized grants totaling $158,000, out of $259,485 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Wisconsin Education Association Council fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (26%), Education (25%), Civil Rights (19%).
Who are Wisconsin Education Association Council's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Law Forward Inc ($300k), A Better Wisconsin Together Inc ($200k), Milwaukee Teachers' Education Association ($144k).
Does Wisconsin Education Association Council fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Wisconsin Education Association Council?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Education Association of the United States, Our Children Our Future.
Where is Wisconsin Education Association Council based?: Wisconsin Education Association Council is based in WI.