Wisconsin · Nonprofit
MIDWEST ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES INC
MIDWEST ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,062,927 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,201,525). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $4.1M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Midwest Environmental Advocates Inc does
Mission
Midwest environmental advocates is a nonprofit law center that combines the power of law with the resolve of communities facing environmental injustice to secure and protect the rights of all people to healthy water, land, and air.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Activities related to combining the power of law with the resolve of communities facing environmental injustice to secure and protect the rights of all people to healthy water, land, and air. $0 for amicus briefing and participation for a non-profit organizations in a case that will determine the effectiveness of wisconsin's toxic spills law to protect water quality and public health.$0 for litigation related to enforcement of wisconsin's public records law, which advances the public's right to transparency in the operations of government.$0 for litigation to defend permitting requirements for facilities that discharge pollutants to surface water and groundwater, which protect water quality and public health.$0 for representation of community members in an administrative proceeding related to a pollution discharge permit to advocate for conditions that protect water quality and public health.$14,997 for representation of a non-profit organization to contest the issuance of wetland and waterways permits in order to protect water quality and natural resources.$0 for amicus briefing to support separation of powers and faithful implementation of state environmental laws.$0 for…
$873,211 spentof which $1,705 as grants$30,936 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $873,211.
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 $1.4M to $1.9M (+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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 11% · 2021 16% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of MIDWEST ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Anthony Wilkin Gibart
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $85k → $638k.
11 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES 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.
How concentrated its funding is
MIDWEST ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% 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
59% 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 MIDWEST ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 41% · 2019 35% · 2020 29% · 2021 28% · 2022 29% · 2023 30% — 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
47% of MIDWEST ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
MIDWEST ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES INC draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
MIDWEST ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MIDWEST ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES 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
76%
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 ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES 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 ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES INC?
- MIDWEST ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,062,927 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,201,525). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MIDWEST ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES INC have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $4,062,927 in grants to MIDWEST ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MIDWEST ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,201,525 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MIDWEST ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 29 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