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WISCONSIN INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT NOW
To educate the public, elected officials and regulators on the societal and economic benefits of the responsible investment in, expansion of, transportation facilities, renewable and traditional engergy projects, mining and other infrastructure projects and to promote governmental policies that support such infrastructre investment and…
$119k
Granted FY2024
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Grants
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Communities
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of WISCONSIN INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT NOW’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
advocates similarsimilar issuesissues filing
2020
advocates similarsimilar issuesissues filing
2021
advocates similarsimilar issuesissues filing
2023
advocates similarsimilar issuesissues filing
2024
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2025
issue advocacyadvocacy educational
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 1 grant
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$609k
Total assets
Largest grants
- Americans 4 Seccurity Inc$100,000
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 9%. 50% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 5 repeat orgs$430k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +3112% since the first grant, against +182% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
5
11
Total granted
$1.6M
$430k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+3112%
+182%
Still filing today
60%
55%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Civil RightsCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentHealthCrime & LegalOther
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- MGMidwest Growth Inc3× · 2018–2023 · $615k · revenue +155776% · 57% of their budget
- ABA BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER INC3× · 2020–2023 · $330k · revenue +366%
- A4Americans 4 Seccurity Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $250k · revenue +3112%
Funded once
- WOWisconsin Opportunity Coalitiongraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +386%
- AWAMERICA WORKS USAgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +96%
- WFWISCONSIN FIRST INCone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -94% · 61% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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Wisconsin World Affairs Council Inc
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Fix the System-Wisconsin Action Inc
Promote & support nonpartisan political innovation in wisconsin by engaging in legislative and outreach activity to implement a strategy of innovations and reforms to open up competition in the politics industry.
Membership Benefit
3
Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
Public Benefit
4
Our Wisconsin Revolution Inc
To promote the common good and general welfare of the people of wisconsin.
Civil Rights
5
Wisconsin Alliance for Reform Inc
Informing and educating Wisconsin citizens about public policies that promote strong families, create jobs and economic opportunity, limit government, reduce the tax burden on citizens and provide safe communities for every Wisconsin…
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6
Wisconsin Progress Inc
Wisconsin progress is a state-based candidate recruitment and training program, responsible for building a progressive network of elected leaders at the local and state level. our candidates represent the next generation of progressive…
Civil Rights
7
350 Wisconsin Action Inc
350 Wisconsin Action mobilizes concerned climate voters to push for bold climate action from government and elected officials. We keep the climate crisis at the center of the political conversation, and push for progressive policies that…
Environment
8
Wisconsin Progress Institute Inc
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.
Education
9
Wmc Issues Mobilization Council Inc
Educate and inform the general public and the business community regarding public policy issues that affect the economic climate in wisconsin.
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10
Wisconsin Values Inc
At the core of any functioning representative government are fair and equitable democratic processes and access to one's elected and appointed government officials. wisconsin values, inc. is committed to lifting up and promoting these…
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Wisconsin Broadcasters Association
Encompasses a strategic, long-term vision for enhancing, promoting, and supporting the broadcast industry by encouraging the preservation of broadcast history, participating in public affairs activities in wisconsin, and providing…
Arts & Culture
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Wisconsin Democracy Campaign Inc
Nonpartisan political watchdog group dedicated to clean government that advocates for a real democracy that allows the common good to prevail over narrow interests.
Health
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wisconsin Opportunity Coalition Inc and the most unlike its peers is Badger Air Community Council Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
9/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$927,500Community Improvement$625,000Civil Rights$440,000Crime & Legal$50,000Environment$25,000Health$10,000
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Midwest Growth Inc ↗
- Who funds A BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WISCONSIN COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds Americans 4 Seccurity Inc ↗
- Who funds Wisconsin Opportunity Coalition ↗
- Who funds AMERICA WORKS USA ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN FREEDOM ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds LAW FORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER WISCONSIN ACTS INC ↗
- Who funds ONE WISCONSIN NOW INC ↗
- Who funds Forever Wisconsin Inc ↗
- Who funds BADGER AIR COMMUNITY COUNCIL ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Sixteen Thirty FundDC13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation WISCONSIN INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT NOW funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: WISCONSIN FREEDOM ALLIANCE.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
high risk
2 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing; revenue up 5984.3× since.
Legal standing
medium risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 813229845 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on WISCONSIN FREEDOM ALLIANCE, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 93% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Wisconsin Infrastructure Investment Now?
Find your warmest path to Wisconsin Infrastructure Investment Now through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines