Wisconsin · Public charity
Wisconsin Voices Inc
Wisconsin voices provides technical assistance and resources to build capacity and leadership to 501(c)(3) organizations in support of commonly held values of equal opportunity, freedom, progress, and a government that works for all.
- $288k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2024
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $35,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $72,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 25
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.1M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Wisconsin Voices Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 9 | $288k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $10k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $535k | 65% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $100k | 63% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $2.4M | 56% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $466k | 21% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $377k | 87% |
| FY2017 | 3 | $25k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wisdom Inc | $487,400 | 3 | 9% |
| Voces de la Frontera Inc | $444,850 | 6 | 10% |
| Metcalfe Park Community Bridges Inc | $276,110 | 5 | 48% |
| Southside Organizing Committee Inc | $213,750 | 4 | 17% |
| Goodpower Education Fund Inc | $196,000 | 3 | 4% |
| 9to5 National Association of Working Women Inc | $176,141 | 3 | 2% |
| Citizen Action of Wisconsin Inc | $162,600 | 1 | 5% |
| Freedom Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Wave Educational Fund Inc | $140,000 | 3 | 15% |
| Layton Boulevard West Neighbors Inc Dba via CDC | $139,000 | 4 | 6% |
Show all 52 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Wisconsin Voices Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 41 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · State Voices · State Power Fund · Tides Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · New Venture Fund · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Windward Fund · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Wisconsin Voices Inc
- How much does Wisconsin Voices Inc give?
- Wisconsin Voices Inc reported 9 grants totaling $288,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Wisconsin Voices Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (63%), Community Improvement (7%), Philanthropy (6%).
- Who are Wisconsin Voices Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Wisdom Inc ($487k), Voces de la Frontera Inc ($445k), Metcalfe Park Community Bridges Inc ($276k).
- Does Wisconsin Voices Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Wisconsin Voices Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, State Voices, State Power Fund.
- Where is Wisconsin Voices Inc based?
- Wisconsin Voices Inc is based in WI.
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