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Wmc Issues Mobilization Council Inc

To promote the social welfare of the citizens of wisconsin by promoting, developing, defining and encouraging distribution of information about wisconsin's economic climate and the importance of job creation to the general public of wisconsin; to foster, encourage and coordinate the development of public policies that will lead to…

$59k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$32k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Employment$3.0MPublic Benefit$693kCrime & Legal$39k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $55,900, the rows itemized in this filing. The $58,900 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $3,000 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.
$12,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$10k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WMC JOBS FUND$31,900
REPUBLICAN ASSEMBLY CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE$12,000
COMMITTEE TO ELECT A REPUBLICAN SENATE$12,000
02The need
03

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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 5%HUNTER NATION: $100k → 5%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 99% of Wmc Issues Mobilization Council Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in WI; by stated purpose, 5%.

Wmc Issues Mobilization Council 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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.5M · 6 repeat orgs$353k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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8

Total granted

$3.5M
$353k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-5%
+25%

Still filing today

50%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Public BenefitHuman ServicesEmploymentCrime & LegalEducationOther
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

  • WJ
    WMC JOBS FUND
    9× · 2017–2025 · $3.1M
  • WA
    Wisconsin Alliance for Reform Inc
    3× · 2018–2020 · $160k · revenue -57%
  • RP
    REPUBLICAN PARTY OF WISCONSIN
    8× · 2018–2025 · $88k

Funded once

  • WF
    Wisconsin Family Actiongraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $150k · revenue +25% · 37% of their budget
  • HN
    HUNTER NATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +330%
  • PP
    PERSUASION PARTNERS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $26k
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.

1
Empower Wisconsin Foundation Inc

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…

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2
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
3
Wisconsin Principles Inc

Wisconsin principles (wp) is a 501(c)(4) non-profit organization dedicated to preserving conservative values in the state of wisconsin. committed to fiscal conservatism, educational choice, and individual liberty, we strive to empower…

Civil Rights
4
Wisconsin Strong Inc

Mission Statement: To experience the fullness of our freedom and liberty and to enjoy a thriving economy first requires strong public moral values that encourage the growth of strong traditional families.

Public Benefit
5
Our Wisconsin Revolution Inc

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

Civil Rights
6
Together Wisconsin Acts Inc

Together wisconsin acts, inc. (twa) advocates for legislation, regulations and government programs to maintain and improve the common good, quality of life, and social welfare of the people in the state of wisconsin. twa activities include…

Health
7
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
8
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
9
Citizen Action of Wisconsin Inc

Citizen action of wisconsin - an issue-focused coalition of individuals and organizations committed to achieving racial, social, economic, and environmental justice

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10
Working for Wisconsin Inc

To promote social welfare including but not limited to informing the public and policymakers on the importance of wisconsin's construction work to the state's economy, the vitality of its communities, and the lives of its citizens.

Employment
11
Wmc Issues Mobilization Council Inc

To promote the social welfare of the citizens of wisconsin by promoting, developing, defining and encouraging distribution of information about wisconsin's economic climate and the importance of job creation to the general public of…

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12
Wisconsin Voter Alliance Inc

Work to Facilitate and Coordinate Restoration of Voting Integrity in the State of Wisconsin. Wisconsin Voter Alliance mission is to effect change in laws and policies through public education and legal action to restore voter confidence

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wisconsin Civil Justice Council; the most unlike its peers is Hunter Nation Inc. 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

8 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. 8 of the 14 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)
7/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WMC JOBS FUND: $3,054,100 · OtherWMC JOBS FUNDWisconsin Alliance for Reform Inc: $159,500 · Other+7 more: $260,127 · Other+7 moreWisconsin Family Action: $150,000 · Public BenefitHUNTER NATION INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesTHE JOBS FIRST COALITION INC: $72,000 · EmploymentWISCONSIN CIVIL JUSTICE COUNCIL: $9,000 · Crime & LegalWMC LITIGATION CENTER INC: $5,000 · Education
Other$3,473,727Public Benefit$150,000Human Services$100,000Employment$72,000Crime & Legal$9,000Education$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWisconsin Alliance for Reform Inc: $159,500 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetWisconsin Family Action: $150,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetHUNTER NATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTHE JOBS FIRST COALITION INC: $72,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetUS Chamber Institute for Legal Reform: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEmpower Wisconsin Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetWISCONSIN CIVIL JUSTICE COUNCIL: $9,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetWMC LITIGATION CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 10.0% 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.

  • 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 US Chamber Institute for Legal Reform ↗
  • Who funds Empower Wisconsin Inc ↗
  • Who funds WISCONSIN CIVIL JUSTICE COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds WMC LITIGATION CENTER INC ↗

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.

Wisconsin Homeowners Alliance IncWI15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wisconsin Homeowners Alliance Inc · Wisconsin Bankers Association · Dairy Business Association Inc · Wisconsin Insurance Alliance · Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America

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 Wmc Issues Mobilization Council Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wmc Issues Mobilization Council Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%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
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.
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    How do I get to Wmc Issues Mobilization Council Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Wmc Issues Mobilization Council 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 14 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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