· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 17 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Wisdom Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wisdom Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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