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Wisconsin Equal Justice Fund Inc

The mission of wisconsin equal justice fund, inc. Is to raise funds to support pro bono civil legal services.

$205k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2025
3
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$41,239
Largest grant, FY2025
$123,742
Organizations funded a year
1 to 3
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$2.2M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Wisconsin Equal Justice Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Crime & LegalOther
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 arriving3$205k0%
FY20243$321k0%
FY20233$390k0%
FY20223$312k0%
FY20213$162k0%
FY20203$161k0%
FY20193$314k100%
FY20171$132kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Crime & Legal$2.0M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Legal Action of Wisconsin Inc$1,110,80172%
Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc$393,51171%
Wisconsin Judicare Inc$361,34373%
Wisconsin Trust Account Foundation Inc$131,50016%

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA3.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover 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 Equal Justice Fund Inc

How much does Wisconsin Equal Justice Fund Inc give?
Wisconsin Equal Justice Fund Inc reported 3 grants totaling $204,794 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Wisconsin Equal Justice Fund Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (100%).
Who are Wisconsin Equal Justice Fund Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Legal Action of Wisconsin Inc ($1.1M), Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc ($394k), Wisconsin Judicare Inc ($361k).
Does Wisconsin Equal Justice Fund Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Wisconsin Equal Justice Fund Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Wisconsin Equal Justice Fund Inc based?
Wisconsin Equal Justice Fund 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 4 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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