Wisconsin · Nonprofit
GPS EDUCATION PARTNERS INC
GPS EDUCATION PARTNERS INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,058,080 to it, the largest being TABAT FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($1,000,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.1M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $4.1M
- Net assets
- $4.7M
What Gps Education Partners Inc does
Mission
Gps education partners is a non-profit work-based learning solutions provider and advocate, representing our students, businesses, and communities, focusing on access and equity for all students to succeed in the jobs of the future.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Gps ed continues to provide a transformational alternative education and youth apprenticeship program through our eight education centers located throughout southeast and northeast wisconsin. With an average annual enrollment of 230 students, this immersive program enables students to earn their high school diploma from their home high school while also earning stackable and transferable credentials aligned with technical career pathways. The class of 2025 had 95 senior graduates and boasts a 97% graduation rate, with 91% earning their national career readiness certification, 96% earning the full certified production technician (cpt) certificate from the manufacturing skill standards council (mssc), and 77% hired full-time at a gps ed business partner or within an adjacent industry. Many graduates who plan to pursue post-secondary education also earn college credits. Notably, most of our students overcome severe academic deficiencies and gain valuable soft skills needed for gainful employment. The organization continues to expand its portfolio of school and business partners, providing more career pathways to more students.gps ed's wbl program is a capacity-building intermediary…
$4,547,350 spent$1,965,145 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,547,350.
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 2023 to 2024, from $4.3M to $5.6M (+31%).
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 7% · 2018 5% · 2019 5% · 2020 6% · 2021 24% · 2022 14% · 2023 6% · 2024 17% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of GPS EDUCATION PARTNERS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Stephanie Reisner
President, chief executive
Board chair
Rebekah Kowalski
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $197k → $743k.
7 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 GPS EDUCATION PARTNERS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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
GPS EDUCATION PARTNERS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
43% 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 GPS EDUCATION PARTNERS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 78% · 2019 70% · 2020 45% · 2021 26% · 2022 34% · 2023 40% — 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
50% of GPS EDUCATION PARTNERS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
70% of GPS EDUCATION PARTNERS 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. $241k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
GPS EDUCATION PARTNERS INC has grown faster than half of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like GPS EDUCATION PARTNERS 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
Public support
70%
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 GPS EDUCATION PARTNERS 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 GPS EDUCATION PARTNERS INC?
- GPS EDUCATION PARTNERS INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,058,080 to it, the largest being TABAT FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($1,000,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GPS EDUCATION PARTNERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $4,058,080 in grants to GPS EDUCATION PARTNERS INC, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GPS EDUCATION PARTNERS INC?
- TABAT FAMILY FOUNDATION INC 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 GPS EDUCATION PARTNERS 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 39 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