Wisconsin · Nonprofit
FAIR WISCONSIN INC
FAIR WISCONSIN INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $184,500 to it, the largest being ALL HANDS ON DECK NETWORK INC ($115,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $221k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $185k
- Net assets
- $38k
What Fair Wisconsin Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to protect and advance the civil rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (lgbtq+) people through community organizing, promoting electoral participation by lgbtq+ wisconsinites, and direct legislative advocacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Our program services include the costs of education, grassroots organizing, coalition building, and electoral involvement in wisconsin to protect, achieve, and advance the civil rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (lgbtq+) wisconsinites. During the year these efforts were focused on engaging a coalition of lgbtq+ and allied community organizations in wisconsin, and working to engage the lgbtq+ community in elections. Our program services also include legislative work such as the costs of directly lobbying elected officials to support or oppose legislation related to the lgbtq+ community. During the year these efforts focused on defending past legislative gains and supporting local/municipal advances in lgbtq+ civil rights.
$116,862 spentof which $40,240 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $116,862.
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.
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 $23k to $63k (+175%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Abigail Swetz
Executive director
Board chair
Laurie Guilbault
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $25k → $20k.
From the IRS filings of FAIR WISCONSIN INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
FAIR WISCONSIN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 FAIR WISCONSIN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 69% · 2022 93% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
FAIR WISCONSIN INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like FAIR WISCONSIN 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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Fair Wisconsin Political Action Committee · exempt
- Fair Wisconsin Federal Political Action Committee · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FAIR WISCONSIN 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 FAIR WISCONSIN INC?
- FAIR WISCONSIN INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $184,500 to it, the largest being ALL HANDS ON DECK NETWORK INC ($115,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FAIR WISCONSIN INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $184,500 in grants to FAIR WISCONSIN INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAIR WISCONSIN INC?
- ALL HANDS ON DECK NETWORK INC is the largest funder on record, with $115,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAIR WISCONSIN 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.
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 4 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing