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Wisdom Action Network Inc

Educating the public on issues of pressing public concern, developing and advocating for legislation, regulations, and government programs to address issues that relate to racial and social justice, conducting research and publicizing the positions of elected officials to the general public.

$377k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$341k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$1.3MCivil Rights$70kReligion$70kEmployment$45kCrime & Legal$35kCommunity Improvement$16k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $341,353, the rows itemized in this filing. The $376,852 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $35,499 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.
$341,353
Median grant
1
States reached
$225k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WISDOM$341,353
02The need
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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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SOPHIA of Waukesha Inc: $16k → 5%Racine Interfaith Coalition Inc: $25k → 10%CUSH: $25k → 10%Justice Organization Sharing Hope for United Action Inc: $25k → 10%NAOMI Inc: $57k → 11%ESTHER: $20k → 11%JONAH: $67k → 12%WISDOM: $371k → 17%Menominee Menikanaehkem: $45k → 24%RACINE INTERFAITH COALITION: $20k → 10%JOSHUA: $23k → 10%JONAH Inc: $27k → 12%WISDOM: $341k → 17%JOSHUA: $20k → 10%WISDOM of Wisconsin Inc: $209k → 17%WISDOM: $160k → 17%Milwaukee Innercity Congregations Allied for Hope Inc: $25k → 17%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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 59% of Wisdom Action Network Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in WI; by stated purpose, 43%.

Wisdom Action Network Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 6 repeat orgs$168k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against -58% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
5

Total granted

$1.4M
$168k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
-58%

Still filing today

100%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’22’23’24
PhilanthropyEducationReligionOther
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

  • WI
    WISDOM INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +19%
  • JI
    JONAH INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $94k · revenue +47% · 51% of their budget
  • J
    JOSHUA
    3× · 2020–2023 · $68k · revenue +62% · 33% of their budget

Funded once

  • WI
    WISDOM INC DBA NAOMI INC
    one grant, 2020 · $57k · revenue -82% · 74% of their budget
  • MI
    MENIKANAEHKEM INC
    one grant, 2020 · $45k
  • MI
    MILWAUKEE INNERCITY CONGREGATIONS ALLIED FOR HOPE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +9%
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.

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Interfaith Strategy for Advocacy and Action in the Community

Isaac is a faith-based community organizing group made up of congregations and organizations that unite in order to accomplish what cannot be done as individuals or single congregations. together, we focus our collectively formed…

Religion
2
Fighting Against Injustice Towards Harmony Faith

We are an interfaith, Congregation-based Community Organization. Our member Congregations pledge to build powerful Justice Ministries within their own congregations and to work together to address the root causes of issues of injustice in…

Education
3
Josephs House International Organization
Human Services
4
Church of Justice
Human Services
5
Isaiah

Isaiah is a state-wide coalition of congregations and allies. we are a vehicle for people of faith to work for racial and economic justice in minnesota.

Religion
6
Wisconsin Faith Voices for Justice

The mission of wisconsin faith voices for justice is to connect and empower faith communities and individuals to work for the common good and a life of dignity for everyone. we advocate for change so that all individuals and families can…

Religion
7
Wisdom Islamic Studies and Education Inc
Religion
8
St Joseph Conference - Marinette Wi of the Society of St Vincent Depaul

Provide its members with spiritual growth, fellowship and to serve people in need.

Human Services
9
Faith Moving Forward
Public Benefit
10
Washington Interfaith Network

To train leaders to address issues affecting public safety schools housing and jobs in their communities especially disadvantaged neighborhoods affordable housing and supportive housing.

Employment
11
Women's Ordination Conference

Our mission is to advocate and pray for womens ordination as deacons, priests, and bishops into an inclusive and accountable roman catholic church.

Religion
12
Transformative Justice of Williamson County
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Joshua; the most unlike its peers is Racine Interfaith Coalition. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 11 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WISDOM INC: $1,080,353 · PhilanthropyWISDOM INCJONAH INC: $94,000 · PhilanthropyJONAH INCJOSHUA: $68,000 · PhilanthropyWISDOM INC DBA NAOMI INC: $57,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $76,000 · Philanthropy+3 moreMENIKANAEHKEM INC: $45,000 · OtherMOSES - WISDOM OF MADISON INC: $45,000 · OtherRACINE INTERFAITH COALITION: $45,000 · EducationMILWAUKEE INNERCITY CONGREGATIONS ALLIED FOR HOPE INC: $25,000 · Religion
Philanthropy$1,375,353Other$90,000Education$45,000Religion$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWISDOM INC: $1,080,353 over 4y, 12% of budgetJONAH INC: $94,000 over 2y, 51% of budgetJOSHUA: $68,000 over 3y, 33% of budgetWISDOM INC DBA NAOMI INC: $57,000 over 1y, 74% of budgetRACINE INTERFAITH COALITION: $45,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetMOSES - WISDOM OF MADISON INC: $45,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetESTHER INC: $35,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetMILWAUKEE INNERCITY CONGREGATIONS ALLIED FOR HOPE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetCONGREGATIONS UNITED TO SERVE HUMANITY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetSOPHIA OF WAUKESHA INC: $16,000 over 1y, 12% 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Wisdom Action Network Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wisdom Action Network Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Wisdom Action Network Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Wisdom Action Network Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 11 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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