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MILWAUKEE COMMUNITY CROSSROADS INC

MILWAUKEE COMMUNITY CROSSROADS INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,092,841 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ($2,111,920). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$6.4M
Funders on record
44
Grants received
$8.1M
Net assets
$2.2M
28/44 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 40%
01What it does

What Milwaukee Community Crossroads Inc does

Mission

The milwaukee community crossroads (mcc) cultivates a vibrant milwaukee community by helping individuals, families and neighborhoods access basic needs, overcome barriers and connect to opportunities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Housing and youthbuild: mcc makes homeownership possible by building new homes, making needed repairs for low income homeowners and training young adults in the trades. The youthbuild program from milwaukee community crossroads is free to join and offers career, learning and life skills in carpentry and construction for milwaukee residents, aged 18 to 24. Through teaching skills in the trades, we build up young people to go onto lucrative careers, pursue their passions and thrive with the knowledge to support themselves, loved ones and their communities.

    $1,350,941 spent$59,989 earned by the program
    26% of program spending
  2. Violence prevention: mcc takes a holistic, long-term approach to inhibit violence in our community that prevents and mediates conflicts while offering support to youth both in schools and out in the community. We strive to not just interrupt violence but also help young people thrive with safe, healthy, and hopeful futures.

    $2,131,715 spent
    40% of program spending
  3. Older adults: mcc feeds both the physical and mental growth of older adults through healthy meals and a variety of activities. They remain healthy, in their homes and vitally connected to the communities that rely on their wisdom and experience.

    $524,389 spent
    10% of program spending
  4. Emergency food pantry: mcc is full-choice pantry, where community members can choose foods to meet their dietary needs and tastes. We feed over 500 adults and children each month while teaching families to become self-sufficient. We provide a 3 - 5 day supply of culturally appropriate emergency food, offering a holistic approach to health, wellness and nutrition. We also offer commodity supplemental food program and farmer's market vouchers, and communicate in spanish, hmong and laotian.

    $1,258,501 spent$30,276 earned by the program
    24% of program spending
  5. Community building - muskego way forwardmuskego way is a block of neighborhoods between the historic old south side neighborhood that spans from 16th street to 27th street and greenfield ave to becher street. But it's much more than just a grid on a map. It's a collection of families, homes and businesses that inspire and create a community. It's a program connecting residents, partners and resources through asset-based development, a resident-driven advisory team, block watch groups and other organizations to advance revitalization of the community.

The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,265,546.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($4.3M) Expenses 100 ($4.1M) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2018 Revenue 90 ($3.8M) Expenses 95 ($3.9M) Net assets 97 ($1.3M)2019 Revenue 101 ($4.3M) Expenses 106 ($4.3M) Net assets 96 ($1.3M)2020 Revenue 98 ($4.2M) Expenses 94 ($3.8M) Net assets 121 ($1.6M)2021 Revenue 108 ($4.6M) Expenses 100 ($4.1M) Net assets 162 ($2.1M)2022 Revenue 105 ($4.5M) Expenses 113 ($4.6M) Net assets 153 ($2.0M)2023 Revenue 124 ($5.3M) Expenses 125 ($5.1M) Net assets 170 ($2.2M)2024 Revenue 129 ($5.5M) Expenses 140 ($5.7M) Net assets 153 ($2.0M)2025 Revenue 151 ($6.4M) Expenses 154 ($6.3M) Net assets 165 ($2.2M)
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Revenue (151)Expenses (154)Net assets (165)Peer revenue range

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 $3.5M to $4.1M (+17%).

$2.4M
$2.3M
$2.4M
$2.9M
$3.3M
$3.3M
$3.3M
$3.5M
$4.1M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 42% · 2018 22% · 2019 46% · 2020 66% · 2021 64% · 2022 61% · 2023 70% · 2024 72% · 2025 69%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of MILWAUKEE COMMUNITY CROSSROADS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,214 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$187k
’17
−$42k
’18
−$5k
’19
$320k
’20
$539k
’21
−$113k
’22
$213k
’23
−$226k
’24
$168k
’25
1.9
months of
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.

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Listed151613171414141616
Joined·+5+0+6+4+0+2+3+0
No longer listed·43270210
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 18 funders, grant income fell $1.7M → $997k.

10 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 COMMUNITY CROSSROADS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 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 COMMUNITY CROSSROADS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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

82% 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 COMMUNITY CROSSROADS INC.

26%
largest funder
60%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 37% · 2019 53% · 2020 39% · 2021 34% · 2022 26% · 2023 38% — 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

45% of MILWAUKEE COMMUNITY CROSSROADS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

74% of MILWAUKEE COMMUNITY CROSSROADS INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.

MN
IL
WI
NY
OH
PA
CA
CO
TN
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $803k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MILWAUKEE COMMUNITY CROSSROADS INC's revenue grew 51% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve1.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 11%Fundraising 5%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Hand in Glove LLC · disregarded
  • McC Chdo LLC · disregarded
  • McC Youthbuild LLC · disregarded

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Questions and answers

Who funds MILWAUKEE COMMUNITY CROSSROADS INC?
MILWAUKEE COMMUNITY CROSSROADS INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,092,841 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ($2,111,920). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MILWAUKEE COMMUNITY CROSSROADS INC have?
IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $8,092,841 in grants to MILWAUKEE COMMUNITY CROSSROADS INC, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MILWAUKEE COMMUNITY CROSSROADS INC?
UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,111,920 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MILWAUKEE COMMUNITY CROSSROADS INC find more funders?
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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 44 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