Wisconsin · Nonprofit
METROPOLITAN MILWAUKEE ASSOCIATION OF COMMERCE
METROPOLITAN MILWAUKEE ASSOCIATION OF COMMERCE (Wisconsin) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,259,000 to it, the largest being NATURAL RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION INC ($950,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $18M
What Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce does
Mission
Improve metro milwaukee as a place to create jobs, invest capital and grow business.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The milwaukee 7 project creates a regional cooperative economic development platform for the seven counties of southeastern wisconsin: kenosha, milwaukee, ozaukee, racine, walworth, washington and waukesha.council of small business executives helps successful businesses improve through ceo rountables, cosbe management center, congressional forums and the future 50.
Business performance network establishes milwaukee as an internationally recognized center of quality improvement, activity and success.
Council of small business executives helps successful businesses improve through ceo rountables, cosbe management center, congressional forums and the future 50.
Governmental affairs advocates for business through communication with government officials at the local, state and federal level.
Education helps insure a quality workforce today and tomorrow by providing information and training to the present workforce and support and financial opportunities to our youth
Business development/economic research keeps members informed on the state of the metropolitan milwaukee economy
Communications keeps membership and the public informed about issues that affect business growth in the metropolitan milwaukee area
Membership services provides top quality benefits through leveraging the buying power represented by the association membership
The 8 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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 2022 to 2023, from $14M to $18M (+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: 2022 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Gina Balke
Executive director of fab
Board chair
Austin Ramirez
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $29k → $1.1M.
Left out of every figure on this page: $75k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Mmac Community Support Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money METROPOLITAN MILWAUKEE ASSOCIATION OF COMMERCE raised.
From the IRS filings of METROPOLITAN MILWAUKEE ASSOCIATION OF COMMERCE’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
METROPOLITAN MILWAUKEE ASSOCIATION OF COMMERCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% 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 METROPOLITAN MILWAUKEE ASSOCIATION OF COMMERCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 88% · 2022 84% — 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
98% of METROPOLITAN MILWAUKEE ASSOCIATION OF COMMERCE's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
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 METROPOLITAN MILWAUKEE ASSOCIATION OF COMMERCE
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.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce Regional Center LLC · disregarded
- Milwaukee Development Corporation Inc · exempt
- Mmac Community Support Foundation Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for METROPOLITAN MILWAUKEE ASSOCIATION OF COMMERCE: 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 METROPOLITAN MILWAUKEE ASSOCIATION OF COMMERCE?
- METROPOLITAN MILWAUKEE ASSOCIATION OF COMMERCE (Wisconsin) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,259,000 to it, the largest being NATURAL RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION INC ($950,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does METROPOLITAN MILWAUKEE ASSOCIATION OF COMMERCE have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $1,259,000 in grants to METROPOLITAN MILWAUKEE ASSOCIATION OF COMMERCE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of METROPOLITAN MILWAUKEE ASSOCIATION OF COMMERCE?
- NATURAL RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $950,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like METROPOLITAN MILWAUKEE ASSOCIATION OF COMMERCE 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 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing