Wisconsin · Nonprofit
MIDWEST URBAN STRATEGIES
MIDWEST URBAN STRATEGIES (Wisconsin) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $357,500 to it, the largest being JPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION ($250,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $358k
- Net assets
- $60k
What Midwest Urban Strategies does
Mission
Improve the economic conditions of the midwest region, with targeted focus on urban areas, to serve and advance the needs and interests of the region's diverse populations, employers, workers, job seekers and workforce development professionals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Improve the economic conditions of the midwest region, with targeted focus on urban areas, to serve and advance the needs and interests of the region's diverse populations, employers, workers, job seekers and workforce development professionals.
$2,458,453 spentof which $1,419,169 as grants$457,742 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,458,453.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2024 to 2025, from $497k to $825k (+66%).
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: 2021 37% · 2022 87% · 2023 94% · 2024 86% · 2025 85%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of MIDWEST URBAN STRATEGIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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
Tracey Carey
Executive director
Board chair
Clyde Mcqueen
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $125k → $58k.
From the IRS filings of MIDWEST URBAN STRATEGIES’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 URBAN STRATEGIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
30% 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 URBAN STRATEGIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 87% — 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
MIDWEST URBAN STRATEGIES draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 3 states in all.
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.
Against its field
MIDWEST URBAN STRATEGIES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,012 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,012 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding MIDWEST URBAN STRATEGIES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $19.6M on record.
- Department of Labor$19.6M
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 URBAN STRATEGIES
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 MIDWEST URBAN STRATEGIES: 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 URBAN STRATEGIES?
- MIDWEST URBAN STRATEGIES (Wisconsin) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $357,500 to it, the largest being JPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION ($250,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MIDWEST URBAN STRATEGIES have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $357,500 in grants to MIDWEST URBAN STRATEGIES, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MIDWEST URBAN STRATEGIES?
- JPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MIDWEST URBAN STRATEGIES 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 3 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