Wisconsin · Nonprofit
MILWAUKEE WOMEN INC
MILWAUKEE WOMEN INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $86,380 to it, the largest being WAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($38,380). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $159k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $86k
- Net assets
- $267k
What Milwaukee Women Inc does
Mission
Milwaukee Women Inc is an organization of executives determined to change the quality and composition of corporate boards to maximize the performance of public and private companies with a focus on women and women of color.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Mwi conducts research once each year to benchmark the number of women on the boards of the top 50 largest public companies in wisconsin. The last four years the research has included the number of women executives of the top 50 largest public companies. This information is shared with funders, company ceos, and the general business community through our partner organizations and steering committee members. In addition, mwi produces periodic linkedin updates to inform members of mwi's linkedin community about trends in the arena of women in corporate leadership roles, in partnership with corporate partners and community organizations.
$22,047 spentof which $200 as grants74% of program spendingMwi communications are sent to members and the community periodically via email and newsletters as needed regarding programming, the business landscape, and opportunities for involvement. Additionally, mwi's website allows interested women to learn more about mwi, board development, current research, board appointments, and events. We also communicate through linkedin, facebook, twitter and post relevant information on a regular basis. Reputation partners was contracted to provide public relations counsel and execution for mwi. Mwi created videos that tells mwi's story and celebrates the accomplishments over the last 20 years on the issue of board diversity. Video audience includes corporate sector, executive women, associations, media, and the local business community.
$7,760 spent26% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $29,807.
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 2021 to 2022, from $157k to $256k (+63%).
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.
98% of MILWAUKEE WOMEN INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Lori Syverson
President & CEO (through 05/2025)
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $3k → $15k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 WOMEN 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 WOMEN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
44% 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 WOMEN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 59% · 2022 54% · 2023 67% — 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
92% of MILWAUKEE WOMEN 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. $38k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 WOMEN INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MILWAUKEE WOMEN 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
30% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 MILWAUKEE WOMEN 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 WOMEN INC?
- MILWAUKEE WOMEN INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $86,380 to it, the largest being WAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($38,380). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MILWAUKEE WOMEN INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $86,380 in grants to MILWAUKEE WOMEN INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MILWAUKEE WOMEN INC?
- WAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $38,380 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MILWAUKEE WOMEN 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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