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Wisconsin Insurance Alliance

The WISCONSIN INSURANCE ALLIANCE (wia) is a state trade association of property and casualty insurance companies.

$262k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Benefit$896kEmployment$650kYouth Development$35kHuman Services$25kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kCivil Rights$20kCommunity Improvement$10k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $252,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $261,817 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $9,817 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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $62k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
$12,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JOBS FIRST COALITION INC$125,000
WISCONSIN OPPORTUNITY COALITION$50,000
REPUBLICAN STATE LEADERSHIP COMMITTEE$15,000
REPUBLICAN ASSEMBLY CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE$12,000
DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF WISCONSIN$12,000
REPUBLICAN PARTY OF WISCONSIN$12,000
COMMITTEE TO ELECT A REPUBLICAN SENATE$11,000
ASSEMBLY DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE$8,000
STATE SENATE DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE$7,000
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 (FY17–20, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 56% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%RULE OF LAW DEFENSE FUND: $25k → 14%PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS OF WISCONSIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS OF WISCONSIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS OF WISCONSIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS OF WISCONSIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 9 repeat orgs$247k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
9

Total granted

$1.4M
$185k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+29%

Still filing today

33%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Public BenefitHuman ServicesCivil RightsEmploymentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • TJ
    THE JOBS FIRST COALITION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $650k · revenue +36%
  • CI
    COMMUNITY INSURANCE INFORMATION CENTER INC
    3× · 2017–2021 · $276k
  • RS
    Republican State Leadership
    5× · 2018–2024 · $187k

Funded once

  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF METRO MILWAUKEEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $35k · revenue +29%
  • PS
    PROGRESSIVE STATE LEADERS COMMITTEE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +391%
  • RO
    RULE OF LAW DEFENSE FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +83%
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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
Wisconsin Progress Inc

Wisconsin progress recruits, trains, elects, and develops progressive candidates and leaders at the local and state legislative levels.

Civil Rights
3
Law Forward Inc

To preserve fundamental democratic principles, support wisconsin's commitment to clean and open government, and promote a progressive vision through impact litigation, administrative processes and public education.

Crime & Legal
4
One Wisconsin Now Inc

To advance progressive values, ideas and policies through research, policy, networking, advocacy and public education.

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5
Wisconsin Principles Inc

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…

Civil Rights
6
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
7
Public Policy Forum Inc Researching Community Issues

We seek, discover, and disclose true and accurate information to enhance the effectiveness of government and public policy in southeastern Wisconsin; and we facilitate public policy discussion and action.

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8
Legal Action of Wisconsin Inc

Legal action exists to provide creative, effective, and high-quality legal representation in order to achieve justice for low-income people and others to whom it would otherwise be denied. we advocate for empowerment and systemic change to…

Crime & Legal
9
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 by reinforcing and protecting the values of honesty, fairness,…

Health
10
Wisconsineye Public Affairs Network Inc

To keep state residents educated and informed, in a nonpartisan manner, on a broad range of wisconsin public issues and policy matters.

Arts & Culture
11
Wisconsin Equal Justice Fund Inc

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

Crime & Legal
12
Wisconsin Bankers Association

We actively advocate, educate and support our members to help them positively impact the wisconsin communities they serve.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wisconsin Opportunity Coalition Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rule of Law Defense Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE JOBS FIRST COALITION INC: $650,000 · EmploymentTHE JOBS FIRST COALITION INCRepublican State Leadership: $187,000 · OtherRepublican State LeadershipREPUBLICAN PARTY OF WISCONSIN: $84,000 · OtherREPUBLICAN PARTY OF WISCONSINCERS: $72,000 · OtherCERSSTATE SENATE DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE: $49,000 · OtherSTATE SENATE DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEEASSEMBLY DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE: $47,500 · OtherASSEMBLY DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN COMMITTEEBIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF METRO MILWAUKEE: $35,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF METRO MIL…PROGRESSIVE STATE LEADERS COMMITTEE INC: $25,000 · OtherDEMOCRATIC ATTORNEYS GENERAL ASSOCIATION: $25,000 · OtherWISCONSIN VALUES INC: $25,000 · OtherRepublican Party of Wisconsin - segregated fund: $24,000 · Other+2 more: $27,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY INSURANCE INFORMATION CENTER INC: $275,761 · Public BenefitCOMMUNITY INSURANCE…+1 more: $5,000 · Public BenefitWISCONSIN OPPORTUNITY COALITION INC: $50,000 · Civil RightsForever Wisconsin Inc: $20,000 · Civil RightsRULE OF LAW DEFENSE FUND: $25,000 · Human ServicesPROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS OF WISCONSIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesLEADERS FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY INC: $10,000 · Community Improvement
Employment$650,000Other$600,500Public Benefit$280,761Civil Rights$70,000Human Services$45,000Community Improvement$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE JOBS FIRST COALITION INC: $650,000 over 8y, 7.5% of budgetWISCONSIN OPPORTUNITY COALITION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetPROGRESSIVE STATE LEADERS COMMITTEE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetWISCONSIN VALUES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetForever Wisconsin Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetPROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS OF WISCONSIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetLEADERS FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetNCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES: $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 THE JOBS FIRST COALITION INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY INSURANCE INFORMATION CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds WISCONSIN OPPORTUNITY COALITION INC ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF METRO MILWAUKEE ↗
  • Who funds PROGRESSIVE STATE LEADERS COMMITTEE INC ↗
  • Who funds RULE OF LAW DEFENSE FUND ↗
  • Who funds WISCONSIN VALUES INC ↗
  • Who funds Forever Wisconsin Inc ↗
  • Who funds PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS OF WISCONSIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LEADERS FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY INC ↗
  • Who funds NCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES ↗

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.

Wisconsin Bankers AssociationWI28.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wisconsin Bankers Association · Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America · Dairy Business Association Inc · Alliance of Health Insurers Ua · Wisconsin Beer Distributors Association Inc C/O the Kammer Gr · Water Sports Industry Association Inc · Wisconsin Association of Health Plans Inc · Pharmaceutical Care Management Association · The American Council of Engineering Companies of Wisconsin Inc · Wisconsin Transportation Builders Association Inc · Wmc Issues Mobilization Council Inc · Motion Picture Association Inc

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 Insurance Alliance funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wisconsin Insurance Alliance. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 20 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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