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GROW NORTH REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

GROW NORTH REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $75,000 to it, the largest being FIRST CHILDREN'S FINANCE ($75,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$104k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$75k
Net assets
$109k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 58%
01What it does

What Grow North Regional Economic Development Corporation does

Mission

Assist in economic development in northern wisconsin

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Supporting entrepreneurship - hold educational functions and seminars to encourage and empower entrepreneurs

  2. Workforce development - our goal is to stimulate business in the northwoods by partnering with other agencies with the same end goal.

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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.

100 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($190k) Expenses 100 ($188k) Net assets 100 ($101k)2023 Revenue 68 ($128k) Expenses 43 ($80k) Net assets 147 ($149k)2024 Revenue 54 ($103k) Expenses 65 ($122k) Net assets 128 ($130k)2025 Revenue 55 ($104k) Expenses 67 ($125k) Net assets 107 ($109k)
2022202320242025
Revenue (55)Expenses (67)Net assets (107)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $103k to $197k (+90%).

$103k
$197k
$134k
$130k
2022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

96% of GROW NORTH REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,439 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$2k
’22
$49k
’23
−$19k
’24
−$21k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
total
$75k
funders
1

From the IRS filings of GROW NORTH REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’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.

Where its funders are

GROW NORTH REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 1 state in all.

MN

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

GROW NORTH REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION's revenue fell 45% between 2022 and 2025.

Operating margin−21% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−18% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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Questions and answers

Who funds GROW NORTH REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION?
GROW NORTH REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $75,000 to it, the largest being FIRST CHILDREN'S FINANCE ($75,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GROW NORTH REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $75,000 in grants to GROW NORTH REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION.
Who is the largest funder of GROW NORTH REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION?
FIRST CHILDREN'S FINANCE is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GROW NORTH REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 1 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