· Public charity
Wisconsin Trust Account Foundation Inc
The wisconsin trust account foundation works with civil legal aid organizations in wisconsin to increase access to justice.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k8 grants · $191k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $999k
- $250k+7 grants · $7.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEGAL ACTION OF WISCONSIN | $4,720,823 |
| WISCONSIN JUDICARE INC DBA JUDICARE LEGAL AID | $985,320 |
| LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE | $540,729 |
| ABC FOR HEALTH | $420,509 |
| KIDS MATTER INC | $334,788 |
| DISABILITY RIGHTS WISCONSIN | $304,479 |
| ECONOMIC JUSTICE INSTITUTE INC | $297,384 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE | $196,850 |
| CENTRO LEGAL POR DERECHOS HUMANOS | $128,872 |
| OUR LADY QUEEN OF PEACE PARISH DBA CATHOLIC MULTICULTURAL CENTER | $128,399 |
| VIVENT HEALTH | $101,307 |
| CENTER AGAINST SEXUAL & DOMESTIC ABUSE | $90,907 |
| WORLD RELIEF FOX VALLEY | $87,577 |
| INDIANHEAD COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY | $87,465 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESCE OF GREEN BAY | $72,325 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
29 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
LEGAL ACTION OF WISCONSIN INC8× · 2017–2024 · $17M · revenue +53% · 28% of their budget- WJWISCONSIN JUDICARE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $5.3M · revenue +43% · 30% of their budget
LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +65%
Funded once
- MBMILWAUKEE BAR ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $112k · revenue +66%
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.
Legal representation of dakota county residents with financial need.
Central Wisconsin Community Law is a nonprofit law firm which represents indigent people mostly in criminal cases.
The survivor justice center secures justice for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault and empowers them to create their own future.
The mission of central minnesota legal services is to advocate for access to the civil justice system for low income people by providing high quality legal services and to improve the lives of people living in poverty by empowering…
To break the cycle of abuse and violence - domestic, sexual and child by providing services that create hope, restore lives and drive social change through education and community collaboration
Promote safety, stability and self-sufficiency for low income families and individuals, as well as victims of domestic violence, through effective, efficient legal advocacy and assistance.
Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.
Legal aid of wyoming is a statewide non-profit organization providing high quality civil legal services to eligible people to facilitate and encourage a just legal system.
The wisconsin trust account foundation works with civil legal aid organizations in wisconsin to increase access to justice. we oversee funds and invest in services and projects to help people resolve legal problems.
To provide civil legal services to women in crisis.
Legal aid of manasota provides legal services at no or low cost to those in need by partnering with local lawyers.
At legal aid chicago, we work together to provide high quality civil legal aid to people living in poverty and other vulnerable groups.through advocacy, education, collaboration, and litigation we empower individuals, protect fundamental…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Green Bay Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rainbow House Domestic Abuse Services Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 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. 28 of the 30 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 LEGAL ACTION OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN JUDICARE INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY RIGHTS WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds ABC FOR HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS MATTER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRO LEGAL POR DERECHOS HUMANOS INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER AGAINST SEXUAL AND DOMESTIC ABUSE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY JUSTICE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds INDIANHEAD COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds ECONOMIC JUSTICE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds VIVENT HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds END DOMESTIC ABUSE WISCONSIN THE WI COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PORTAGE COUNTY LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN AND NORTHERN ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds LOTUS LEGAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW HOUSE DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF GREEN BAY INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS ↗
- Who funds HOUSEHOLD ABUSE VICTIMS EMERGENCY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of the Diocese ↗
- Who funds Resolution Center Inc ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE BAR ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Metro Milwaukee Mediation Services Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMEN AND CHILDREN'S HORIZONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S CENTER 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: Green Bay Packers Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · The Roots and Wings Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Wisconsin Balance of State Continuum of Care Inc · Community Shares of Wisconsin Inc · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · Madison Community 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 Trust Account Foundation 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.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% of income from government
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.