How much did WISCONSIN VOICES INC grant in FY2024?

WISCONSIN VOICES INC reported 9 grants totaling $288,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is WISCONSIN VOICES INC based?

WISCONSIN VOICES INC is based in WI.

WISCONSIN VOICES INC

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· 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

Grants

Communities

$72k

Largest

01What you fund

0166% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Human Services$1.1MPhilanthropy$606kEnvironment$333kCrime & Legal$198kCivil Rights$152kEducation$119kPublic Benefit$114kCommunity Improvement$91kReligion$35kOther$1.6M

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

2018

engagejusticededicatedchangeworkingsocialcreate

2019

justiceworkingcdcengageorganizingcreatemovement

2020

voter registrationdefending democracydigital organizeryrcedigital slushdigital gotvorganizer digital

2021

civic engagement

2022

civic engagement

2023

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2024

civic engagement

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k2 grants · $13k
$10k–50k5 grants · $149k
$50k–250k2 grants · $126k

$35,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.1M

Total assets

Largest grants

SHARE THE LOVE INC$72,000
METCALFE PARK COMMUNITY BRIDGES$54,000
SHERMAN PARK COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION$45,000
VIA CDC$36,000
VOCES DE LA FRONTERA$35,000
UNITING GARDEN HOMES INCORPORATION$23,000
CITIZEN ACTION OF WISCONSIN EDUCATION FUND INC$10,000
MKE BLACK INC$6,500
MILWAUKEE TURNERS$6,000

02The need

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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 12%. 87% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 12% of WISCONSIN VOICES INC’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in WI; read by stated purpose it is 81% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

WISCONSIN VOICES INClessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$3.2M · 22 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +192% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.2M

$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+192%

+38%

Still filing today

95%

70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesPublic BenefitEnvironmentCrime & LegalCivil RightsEducationOther

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

WI
WISDOM INC
3× · 2018–2020 · $487k · revenue +237%
VOCES DE LA FRONTERA
6× · 2018–2024 · $445k · revenue +341%
METCALFE PARK COMMUNITY BRIDGES
5× · 2019–2024 · $276k · revenue +496% · 48% of their budget

Funded once

CA
CITIZEN ACTION OF WI EDUCATION FUNDgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $163k · revenue +104%
WP
WI PUBLIC EDUCATION NETWORK
one grant, 2020 · $125k
WL
WI LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS
one grant, 2020 · $123k

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.

Freedom Action Now Inc

Freedom Action Now Inc. FAN is a Radical Queer Black and Southeast Asian Feminist Organization creating change for most impacted communities in Wisconsin through voter education leadership development community organizing and policy…

Civil Rights

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

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

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

Milwaukee Women Inc

Milwaukee women inc. is dedicated to promoting and providing research and education concerning the value of diversity in corporate governance and management and eliminating barriers to full inclusion of women in leadership positions.

Education

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

Wisconsin Dairy Products Association Inc

Statewide trade association representing the interests of the dairy processing industry through advocacy and education

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Groundwork Milwaukee Inc

Develop partnerships to promote environmental, economic and social well being

Environment

League of Women Voters of Milwaukee Co

The league of women voters is a nonpartisan organization that empowers voters and defends democracy by supporting and educating voters and promoting active civic engagement.

Civil Rights

Wisconsin Justice Initiative Inc

To advocate for progressive change in the wisconsin justice system by educating the public about its real-life impacts and partnering with other organizations to achieve more just outcomes.

Crime & Legal

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

Our Wisconsin Revolution Inc

To promote the common good and general welfare of the people of wisconsin.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wisconsin Voices Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tides Foundation. 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 24 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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

4%2/53

the rest of the field

906/9,865

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.

06the grantee network

45 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

43/45

Grantees still filing

39/45

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,807,286Human Services$1,144,460Philanthropy$606,150Environment$333,020Crime & Legal$197,500Civil Rights$151,870Education$119,000

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.

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.

Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI54× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · State Voices · State Power Fund · Tides Foundation · Windward Fund · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · New Venture Fund · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc

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 VOICES 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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: MILWAUKEE BLOCK (THE BELIEVERS FOR CHANGE).

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 871781002 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 MILWAUKEE BLOCK (THE BELIEVERS FOR CHANGE), 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.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 84% 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 Voices Inc?

Find your warmest path to Wisconsin Voices Inc 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.

WISCONSIN VOICES INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

45 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Wisconsin Voices Inc?

More from the funding graph

WISCONSIN VOICES INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

45 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Wisconsin Voices Inc?

More from the funding graph