Wisconsin · Nonprofit
Milwaukee Excellence Inc
Milwaukee Excellence Inc (Wisconsin) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,271,694 to it, the largest being HERBERT H KOHL CHARITIES INC ($492,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $0
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $0
What Milwaukee Excellence Inc does
Mission
The mission of the organization is to provide a high quality education for all students with choices after graduation that will provide financial stability, inspire personal freedom to builda legacy.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Milwaukee Excellence Inc program ceased business operations.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Milwaukee Excellence Inc. was a Charter School that served to educate 6th thru 12th grade students to excel and graduate from four year college programs in order to pursue a profession of their choice. Program service business operations were discontinued.
$488,027 spent100% of program spendingn/a
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The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $488,027.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $6.0M to $0 (−100%).
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: 2022 96% · 2023 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 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
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $23k → $3k.
5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $118k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Milwaukee Excellence Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Milwaukee Excellence 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
Milwaukee Excellence Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
51% 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 Excellence Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 63% · 2019 54% · 2020 30% · 2021 41% · 2022 93% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
17% of Milwaukee Excellence Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
98% of Milwaukee Excellence 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. $329k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Organizations like Milwaukee Excellence 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
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Milwaukee Excellence 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 Excellence Inc?
- Milwaukee Excellence Inc (Wisconsin) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,271,694 to it, the largest being HERBERT H KOHL CHARITIES INC ($492,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Milwaukee Excellence Inc have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,271,694 in grants to Milwaukee Excellence Inc, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Milwaukee Excellence Inc?
- HERBERT H KOHL CHARITIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $492,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Milwaukee Excellence 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 16 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