· Public charity
Wisdom Inc
Wisdom works with congregation-based community organizations to create understanding and build relationships across boundaries, to train leaders, and to organize people to advocate for social change that is in accord with their values.
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.
The 10 grants below total $297,681 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $379,606 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $81,925 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k9 grants · $233k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MENIKANAEHKEM | $65,000 |
| RACINE INTERFAITH COALITION | $40,000 |
| JOSHUA | $40,000 |
| JONAH | $27,000 |
| MICAH | $25,000 |
| SOPHIA | $25,000 |
| ESTHER | $20,000 |
| CUSH | $20,000 |
| MOSES | $20,000 |
| FREE | $15,681 |
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, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
15 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- EOEXPO of Wisconsin Inc3× · 2020–2022 · $231k · revenue +41% · 31% of their budget
- MIMILWAUKEE INNERCITY CONGREGATIONS ALLIED FOR HOPE INC4× · 2020–2024 · $151k · revenue +9% · 36% of their budget
- JIJONAH INC7× · 2017–2024 · $129k · revenue +321%
Funded once
- DADEMOCRACY ALLIANCEone grant, 2021 · $44k
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.
Empower Wisconsin Foundation's mission is to educate both the public and leaders of grassroots initiatives on criminal justice reform, educational choice, limited government, freedom of speech, transparency in government and private…
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…
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…
Empower Wisconsin, Inc. is a government watchdog whose primary purpose is to educate and mobilize activists to support reforms in areas like criminal justice, education, taxation and government regulation.
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.
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.
We work to develop self-sustaining women's circles.
Cafha provides training and technical assistance to a wide array of stakeholders combating housing discrimination and promoting equitable place-based opportunity through education, advocacy, and collaborative action.
Ending impunity for conflict related sexual violence
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Congregations United to Serve Humanity Inc and the most unlike its peers is Free Movement Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 17 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 EXPO of Wisconsin Inc ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE INNERCITY CONGREGATIONS ALLIED FOR HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds JONAH INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZEN ACTION OF WISCONSIN EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ESTHER INC ↗
- Who funds JOSHUA ↗
- Who funds CONGREGATIONS UNITED TO SERVE HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds EMBOLDEN WI INC ↗
- Who funds RACINE INTERFAITH COALITION ↗
- Who funds SOPHIA OF WAUKESHA INC ↗
- Who funds MOSES - WISDOM OF MADISON INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS FORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds WISDOM INC DBA NAOMI INC ↗
- Who funds FREE MOVEMENT INCORPORATED ↗
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: Wisdom Action Network Inc · Basic Needs Giving Partnership Inc · The Roots and Wings Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Wisdom 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.
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.