· Public charity
Wisconsin Infrastructure Investment Now Inc
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…
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 51% of WISCONSIN INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT NOW INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k3 grants · $86k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $435k
- $250k+2 grants · $914k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| America Works USA | $500,000 |
| Wisconsin Opportunity Coalition Inc | $413,500 |
| A Better Wisconsin Together | $100,000 |
| Fight Back Fund | $100,000 |
| Wisconsin Workers United | $100,000 |
| Midwest Growth Inc | $70,000 |
| Organizing Empowerment Project | $65,000 |
| Fair Rates for Wisconsin's Dairyland | $46,000 |
| GOPAC Educational Fund Inc | $25,000 |
| CDE Leadership Fund | $15,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 23% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +604% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $351k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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 INC4× · 2018–2025 · $685k · revenue +604% · 57% of their budget
- AWAMERICA WORKS USA2× · 2019–2025 · $600k · revenue +661%
- WOWISCONSIN OPPORTUNITY COALITION INC2× · 2023–2025 · $514k · revenue ×419,585
Funded once
- PFPROSPERITY FOR EVERYDAY PEOPLE INCone grant, 2017 · $150k
- SWSKILLED WISCONSIN INCone grant, 2017 · $135k · revenue -76% · 93% of their budget
- LFLAW FORWARD INCone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -36%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
Wisconsin progress recruits, trains, elects, and develops progressive candidates and leaders at the local and state legislative levels.
To promote social welfare including but not limited to informing the public and policymakers on the importance of wisconsin's construction work to the state's economy, the vitality of its communities, and the lives of its citizens.
Wisconsin principles (wp) is a 501(c)(4) non-profit organization dedicated to preserving conservative values in the state of wisconsin. committed to fiscal conservatism, educational choice, and individual liberty, we strive to empower…
To promote the common good and general welfare of the people of wisconsin.
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…
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.
The jobs first coalition (jfc) works to make the creation and retention of family-supporting jobs the top priority of policymakers and community leaders in wisconsin.
Founded in 1911, our mission is to make wisconsin the most competitive state in the nation to do business. we are wisconsin's business voice.
The wisconsin wildlife federation has a dual mission to engage in conservation education and to advocate for sound conservation policy.
United way of wisconsin is dedicated to supporting and enriching a strong statewide united way network that maximizes the capacity of local united ways to address human needs, improve lives and create lasting positive change across…
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…
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.
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 AMERICA WORKS USA ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN OPPORTUNITY COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds A BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WISCONSIN COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS 4 SECURITY INC ↗
- Who funds PROSPERITY FOR EVERYDAY PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds SKILLED WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds FIGHT BACK FUND ↗
- Who funds ORGANIZING EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Wisconsin First Inc ↗
- Who funds LAW FORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds The American Legion Department of Wisconsin ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN FREEDOM ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds FAIR RATES FOR WISCONSIN'S DAIRYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST OPERATING ENGINEERS CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY & SERVICE TRUST FUND ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOPAC EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE WISCONSIN AMERICAN LEGION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BADGER AIR COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Forever Wisconsin Inc ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER WISCONSIN ACTS INC ↗
- Who funds ONE WISCONSIN NOW INC ↗
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Wisconsin Laborers' District Council · North Central States Regional Council of Carpenters · Strategic Victory Fund · American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees · America Votes · Sixteen Thirty Fund · Tides Foundation
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 organization Wisconsin Infrastructure Investment Now Inc 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.
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 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.
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