Wisconsin · Nonprofit
MOSES - WISDOM OF MADISON INC
MOSES - WISDOM OF MADISON INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $279,502 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY SHARES OF WISCONSIN INC ($76,432). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $136k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $280k
- Net assets
- $265k
What Moses - Wisdom of Madison Inc does
Mission
Moses is a coalition of faith communities, organizations and individuals sharing a passion for justice, a commitment to community, and a practice of hope. It exists to deepen relationships within and among faith communities; and to empower people to act together for justice in pursuit of their individual and collective values. Moses, as a local organization within the state organization wisdom, inc., is organized to further its purpose by: 1. Increasing the capacity for grassroots leadership to bring about systemic change through ongoing training, education, advocacy, and fundraising. 2. Expanding the scope of influence of each member through creation of a local faith-led organization. 3. Identifying potential leaders among members for training on local, regional, and state issue development and related action strategies. 4. Engaging members in local, regional, and statewide issues campaigns.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Justice system reform initiative (jsri) 2024 highlights: jail consolidation project moves forward. On jan. 18, 2024 , final funding was approved for the jail project to proceed. Although the jail will be larger than we wanted, it is smaller than originally proposed and comes with renewed commitment to reforms that will keep more people out of jail and out of the criminal-legal system. The challenge now is to make sure that the new jail lives up to the promised improvements. We continue to advocate for improvements that can be made both before and after the jail consolidation project is complete. Jsri also meets with newly elected and appointed individuals, to gain understanding and to develop relationships. These include: the implementation of a crisis/triage center will both help to keep people out of the criminal-legal system and be an important resource for individuals who are having a mental health crisis; the community alternative response emergency services (cares) program in madison and now expanded to sun prairie. Cares provides a non-law-enforcement response to a variety of needs, including mental health crises; and a new initiative, to be managed by the office of justice…
$80,102 spent100% of program spendingRacial justice for all children task force (rjac) and education advocacy group (eag): in coordination with the madison metropolitan school district (mmsd)'s proposed investment of almost $2 million to provide 20 teachers at the k-1 level to reduce class sizes, rjac's education advocacy group is connecting with partners to implement strategies for advocating on behalf of the district's literacy efforts. In the summer of 2023, eag worked to support the adoption of legislation that is now called act 20, right to read bill. Since then, eag has been in communication with both school district leaders and officials to help ensure that they are following act 20's requirements. We are optimistic for improved reading proficiency in our state, while we also know that there is much work to be done. Finally, the housing group (hg) participated in a successful effort to have the state supreme court shorten the record-retention period for eviction cases in which no money judgment is entered from 20 years to two. Throughout 2024, the hg continued to discern how best to respond to local housing issues, including the challenges of advocacy for affordable housing.
$0 spent0% of program spendingMoses strongly supports the abolition of solitary confinement in the justice system. On april 23, 2024, over 70 attendees in a packed meeting room in the state capitol heard a powerful series of speakers on the inhumane practice of solitary confinement in wisconsin prisons and jails. Among the 70-plus listeners were five legislators and 10 aides; on the panel were six people who had spent time in solitary, four clergy, and a woman who had recently lost her father to suicide in solitary. Wisdom arranged for informational packets to be delivered to all legislators' offices after the event.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther notable learning advocacy events and organizational growth: lunch and learn fundraiser celebrates madison's new safe house. On may 15, 2024 moses members and others gathered for a "lunch and learn" fundraiser at lake edge lutheran church in monona. We were there to hear expo member delilah mckinney speak about the special problems of women who spend time in prison, what they need to succeed after release, and how she obtained a grant for a safe house that helps them move toward new lives. "end the lockdowns," a community forum at first unitarian society on feb. 1, 2024, presented dramatic testimony about the ongoing humanitarian crisis in wisconsin's overcrowded prisons. Personal stories were added by family members whose incarcerated loved ones had died or been severely injured as a result of abuse or neglect by prison staff. The take-away message from the forum was to keep lobbying and keep educating more and more voters about the needed changes. Finally, moses pursues deeper involvement by local african american churches. To that end, moses president saundra brown arranged visits by small moses groups to four different african american churches. Each visiting moses group…
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $80,102.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $79k to $152k (+93%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $15k → $16k.
From the IRS filings of MOSES - WISDOM OF MADISON 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
MOSES - WISDOM OF MADISON INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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 MOSES - WISDOM OF MADISON INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 80% · 2019 53% · 2020 29% · 2021 39% · 2022 52% · 2023 94% — 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
25% of MOSES - WISDOM OF MADISON INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
88% of MOSES - WISDOM OF MADISON 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. 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.
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Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MOSES - WISDOM OF MADISON INC?
- MOSES - WISDOM OF MADISON INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $279,502 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY SHARES OF WISCONSIN INC ($76,432). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MOSES - WISDOM OF MADISON INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $279,502 in grants to MOSES - WISDOM OF MADISON INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MOSES - WISDOM OF MADISON INC?
- COMMUNITY SHARES OF WISCONSIN INC is the largest funder on record, with $76,432 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MOSES - WISDOM OF MADISON 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 10 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