Wisconsin · Nonprofit
FIX THE SYSTEM - WISCONSIN INC
FIX THE SYSTEM - WISCONSIN INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,452,450 to it, the largest being THE BESSEMER NATIONAL GIFT FUND ($1,000,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
FIX THE SYSTEM - WISCONSIN INC's revenue fell 95% between 2019 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 647 civil rights nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Incshared funders
- Together Wisconsin Acts Incportfolio match
- Wisconsin Bankers Associationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.
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.
17% of FIX THE SYSTEM - WISCONSIN INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $12k → $133k.
11 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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 FIX THE SYSTEM - 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
FIX THE SYSTEM - WISCONSIN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
97% 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 FIX THE SYSTEM - WISCONSIN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 52% · 2020 52% · 2021 35% · 2022 26% · 2023 57% — 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
40% of FIX THE SYSTEM - WISCONSIN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 28% 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
77% of FIX THE SYSTEM - WISCONSIN INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $781k that is directly attributable, 79% of it comes from funders outside Wisconsin, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 18 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Incshared fundersWI · backs 50 organizations that share your funders
- Together Wisconsin Acts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wisconsin Bankers Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wisconsin Infrastructure Investment Now Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wisconsin Voices Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Together Wisconsin Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Shares of Wisconsin Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for Accountability Integrity & Research in Elections Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ba & Esther Greenheck Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Article IVportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- State Government Leadership Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Federation for Children Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like FIX THE SYSTEM - WISCONSIN INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FIX THE SYSTEM - 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 FIX THE SYSTEM - WISCONSIN INC?
- FIX THE SYSTEM - WISCONSIN INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,452,450 to it, the largest being THE BESSEMER NATIONAL GIFT FUND ($1,000,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FIX THE SYSTEM - WISCONSIN INC have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $3,452,450 in grants to FIX THE SYSTEM - WISCONSIN INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FIX THE SYSTEM - WISCONSIN INC?
- THE BESSEMER NATIONAL GIFT FUND 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 FIX THE SYSTEM - 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 18funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing