Wisconsin · Nonprofit
ASPIRO INC
ASPIRO INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,792,529 to it, the largest being RICHARD J RESCH FOUNDATION LTD ($1,000,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $23M
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $35M
What Aspiro Inc does
Mission
Create opportunities for people experiencing disabilities to live their best lives by reaching their goals, connecting to their community, and achieving their independence.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Day services (including recreation) are designed to enhance communication, social development, skills in performing activities of daily living and community living, health, fitness, leisure-time, and well-being.
$2,472,456 spent$2,303,247 earned by the program39% of program spendingEmployment services assists individuals with disabilities in obtaining and retaining employment with area businesses. There are two ways this can be accomplished: supported employment and job placement, both are in partnership with the wisconsin department of workforce development - division of vocational rehabilitation (dvr). Project search is a program that assists with employment training for students with disabilities in their last year of school. Students are immersed in a business environment where they learn a variety of job skills and employability skills through classroom training. Group supported employment also assists individuals with disabilities in obtaining and retaining employment. Workers with disabilities are accompanied by an aspiro staff member to a job site, and the staff member will provide job coaching, prompting, and cues if needed.
$1,483,164 spent$1,323,857 earned by the program23% of program spendingEarly intervention birth to 3 program provides services to strengthen parent confidence and competence in promoting their child's learning and development during the first three years of life in the following areas: physical, cognitive, communication, social/emotional, self-help. Aspiro is the lead agency providing birth to 3 services to brown county families and provides the following services through a primary coach approach: child and family education, developmental evaluations, occupational therapy, physical therapy, service coordination, special educators and speech therapy.
$1,226,408 spent$149,363 earned by the program19% of program spendingOther programs of the organization include prevocational services, building full lives, production and respite care.
$1,138,520 spent$2,038,827 earned by the program18% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,320,548.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $21M to $37M (+83%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 11% · 2018 10% · 2019 14% · 2020 42% · 2021 38% · 2022 14% · 2023 13% · 2024 14% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of ASPIRO INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Linda Negratti
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $173k → $342k.
9 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ASPIRO INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ASPIRO INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 36% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
35% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ASPIRO INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 52% · 2019 45% · 2020 38% · 2021 16% · 2022 24% · 2023 16% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
57% of ASPIRO INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
90% of ASPIRO INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $384k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ASPIRO INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding ASPIRO INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $14.0M on record — $14.0M federal, $1k state.
- Department of Defense$14.0M
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $1k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ASPIRO INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ASPIRO INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ASPIRO INC?
- ASPIRO INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,792,529 to it, the largest being RICHARD J RESCH FOUNDATION LTD ($1,000,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASPIRO INC have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $2,792,529 in grants to ASPIRO INC, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASPIRO INC?
- RICHARD J RESCH FOUNDATION LTD is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASPIRO INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 46 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing