Wisconsin · Nonprofit
MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,845,233 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ($2,132,155). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 75
- Grants received
- $9.8M
- Net assets
- $45M
What Milwaukee Area Technical College Foundation Inc does
Mission
As the college's philanthropic partner, milwaukee area technical college (matc) foundation's mission is to build donor relationships to facilitate private investments that remove barriers to education, accelerate careers, and deliver skilled talent to the milwaukee area. The foundation also serves as the financial steward of private donations to milwaukee pbs, a viewer-supported service of matc.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Milwaukee area technical college foundation, inc. Secures community involvement with, including financial support of, milwaukee area technical college (matc). The specific purposes of the foundation are to solicit, hold, manage, invest, and expend contributions, grants, and bequests (including endowment gifts) exclusively for the maintenance, support, and benefit of matc.the foundation is the fiscal sponsor for milwaukee pbs (mpbs), a program of matc. Mpbs consists of two traditional television stations, wmvs and wmvt, which are licensed to matc; four digital television services; a state-of-the-art production facility; the website mpbs.org; and the monthly magazine fine tuning. Mpbs also serves as the hands-on training facility for matc students enrolled in the television and video production program. During the 2024/25 academic year, the foundation supported student success through the awarding of $5,408,778 in scholarships and emergency assistance grants. With an emphasis on supporting student persistence and graduation, awards were designed to remove financial barriers and, when possible, eliminate the need for student loans, positioning students for economic mobility. The…
$13,578,034 spentof which $13,481,670 as grants$60,380 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $13,578,034.
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 2020 to 2021, from $20M to $31M (+53%).
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: 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Laura Bray
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $492k → $1.3M.
20 of 75 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 75 funders by total. 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
MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
76% 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 MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 31% · 2019 48% · 2020 45% · 2021 21% · 2022 27% · 2023 26% — 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
40% of MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
78% of MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $70.7M on record.
- Department of Education$69.2M
- National Science Foundation$939k
- Department of Health and Human Services$569k
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 MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION 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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
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 MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION 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 MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC?
- MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,845,233 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ($2,132,155). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 75 organizations giving $9,845,233 in grants to MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC, 43 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,132,155 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION 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 75 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