· Public charity
Wmc Issues Mobilization Council Inc
To promote the social welfare of the residents of wisconsin by promoting, developing, and encouraging distribution of information about wisconsin's economic climate and the importance of job creation and to foster and coordinate the development of public policies that will lead to greater economic opportunity.
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 6 grants below total $438,127 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $451,127 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $13,000 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–50k5 grants · $82k
- $250k+1 grant · $356k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WMC JOBS FUND | $356,000 |
| PERSUASION PARTNERS INC | $26,127 |
| JOBS FIRST COALITION | $22,000 |
| COMMITTEE TO ELECT A REPUBLICAN (CERS) | $12,000 |
| REPUBLICAN ASSEMBLY CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE | $12,000 |
| FAIR COURTS AMERICA | $10,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 99% of Wmc Issues Mobilization Council 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, 96% of the giving stays in WI; read by stated purpose it is 5% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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.
6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- WJWMC JOBS FUND8× · 2017–2024 · $3.0M
- WAWisconsin Alliance for Reform Inc3× · 2018–2020 · $160k · revenue -57%
- RPREPUBLICAN PARTY OF WISCONSIN7× · 2018–2024 · $76k
Funded once
- WFWisconsin Family Actiongraduatedone grant, 2018 · $150k · revenue +25% · 37% of their budget
- HNHUNTER NATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +330%
- EWEmpower Wisconsin Incone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -85%
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.
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To promote the common good and general welfare of the people of wisconsin.
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Wisconsin progress recruits, trains, elects, and develops progressive candidates and leaders at the local and state legislative levels.
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wisconsin Civil Justice Council and the most unlike its peers is Wmc Litigation Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 14 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 Wisconsin Alliance for Reform Inc ↗
- Who funds Wisconsin Family Action ↗
- Who funds HUNTER NATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOBS FIRST COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds Empower Wisconsin Inc ↗
- Who funds US Chamber Institute for Legal Reform ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN CIVIL JUSTICE COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds WMC LITIGATION CENTER INC ↗
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: Wisconsin Homeowners Alliance Inc · Wisconsin Bankers Association · Dairy Business Association Inc · Wisconsin Insurance Alliance · Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America
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 Wmc Issues Mobilization Council 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.
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