Wisconsin · Nonprofit
Madison Workers Cooperative
Madison Workers Cooperative (Wisconsin) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $231,501 to it, the largest being CENTER FOR COMMUNITY STEWARDSHIP ($129,930). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $172k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $232k
- Net assets
- $80k
What Madison Workers Cooperative does
Mission
To expand the promise of worker ownership to marginalized communities, and to ensure that cooperative development in those communities is strategic, effective, and adequately resourced. A Wisconsin only version of the Democracy at Work Institute.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Capacity support: contracting with other cooperative organizations to meet their mission, serving as a fiscal sponsors for cooperatives and solidarity economy projects operating cooperatively
$109,416 spentof which $45,415 as grants87% of program spendingOutreach including tabling at events, publishing a newsletter, education about and promotion of cooperatives to the general public, and attending/presenting at conferences and trainings
$9,051 spent7% of program spendingEducational training: educational programs and trainings, including semi-annual Regional Rendezvous conference, class for trade school students, and trainings for existing cooperatives
$5,731 spent5% of program spendingTechnical assistance: peer networking, new cooperative development, and focused support for cooperatives
$2,189 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $126,387.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $84k to $88k (+6%).
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.
88% of Madison Workers Cooperative’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (55% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $30k → $60k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 Madison Workers Cooperative’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
Madison Workers Cooperative leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 Madison Workers Cooperative.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 66% — 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.
Where its funders are
73% of Madison Workers Cooperative's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $54k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Madison Workers Cooperative runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,278 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,278 employment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Madison Workers Cooperative
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Madison Workers Cooperative: 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 Madison Workers Cooperative?
- Madison Workers Cooperative (Wisconsin) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $231,501 to it, the largest being CENTER FOR COMMUNITY STEWARDSHIP ($129,930). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Madison Workers Cooperative have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $231,501 in grants to Madison Workers Cooperative, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Madison Workers Cooperative?
- CENTER FOR COMMUNITY STEWARDSHIP is the largest funder on record, with $129,930 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Madison Workers Cooperative 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 5 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