Wisconsin · Nonprofit
MIDWEST ENERGY RESEARCH CONSORTIUM INC
MIDWEST ENERGY RESEARCH CONSORTIUM INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $75,000 to it, the largest being GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC ($75,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2020
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $75k
- Net assets
- $43k
What Midwest Energy Research Consortium Inc does
Mission
Driving innovation for the energy, power, and controls sector by synchronizing market insights, technology innovation and talent & start-up development into a new innovation engine for economic development and growth.
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990.
Program
The midwest energy research consortium (m-werc), founded in 2009, represents one of america's largest clusters of energy, power and control companies, educational and research institutions, and other key industry stakeholders. Located in the greater wisconsin/midwest region, m-werc acts as a catalyst for the growth of these companies and industries, through technology innovation, advanced research, market development, information sharing, workforce development and strategic collaboration. M-werc connects and synchronizes the region's expansive industry, collaborative and academic assets in a highly synergistic manner. Through its industry and technology road mapping, advanced research and development and public policy efforts, m-werc expects to help the consortium to achieve national leadership in technology, resulting in growth of sales and employment. M-werc consists of over 50 nationally and internationally recognized industrial members who represent over 50% of the region's 100,000-person workforce engaged in energy, power and control. These businesses include industry giants such as johnson controls, schnieder electric, briggs and stratton, american transmission company, and…
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs 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 2019 to 2020, from $1.1M to $2.1M (+88%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 MIDWEST ENERGY RESEARCH CONSORTIUM 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.
Where its funders are
100% of MIDWEST ENERGY RESEARCH CONSORTIUM 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $75k 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.
Government funding MIDWEST ENERGY RESEARCH CONSORTIUM INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $836k on record.
- Department of Commerce$836k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MIDWEST ENERGY RESEARCH CONSORTIUM 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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 MIDWEST ENERGY RESEARCH CONSORTIUM 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 MIDWEST ENERGY RESEARCH CONSORTIUM INC?
- MIDWEST ENERGY RESEARCH CONSORTIUM INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $75,000 to it, the largest being GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC ($75,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MIDWEST ENERGY RESEARCH CONSORTIUM INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $75,000 in grants to MIDWEST ENERGY RESEARCH CONSORTIUM INC.
- Who is the largest funder of MIDWEST ENERGY RESEARCH CONSORTIUM INC?
- GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC 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 MIDWEST ENERGY RESEARCH CONSORTIUM 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 FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), 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