Wisconsin · Nonprofit
PUBLIC POLICY FORUM INC RESEARCHING COMMUNITY ISSUES
PUBLIC POLICY FORUM INC RESEARCHING COMMUNITY ISSUES (Wisconsin) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,400 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ($40,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Incshared funderslocal
- Wisconsin Bankers Associationportfolio match
- Americans for Prosperityportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2018: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $45k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 PUBLIC POLICY FORUM INC RESEARCHING COMMUNITY ISSUES’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
PUBLIC POLICY FORUM INC RESEARCHING COMMUNITY ISSUES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 PUBLIC POLICY FORUM INC RESEARCHING COMMUNITY ISSUES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 88% — 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
100% of PUBLIC POLICY FORUM INC RESEARCHING COMMUNITY ISSUES's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Incshared funderslocalWI · backs 31 organizations that share your funders · funds 86 organizations near you
- Wisconsin Bankers Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Americans for Prosperityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Together Wisconsin Acts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Together Wisconsin Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chestnut Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Daniel Hoan Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Federation of American Hospitalsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Roe Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tabachnick Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Consumer Brands Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Intl Union of Operating Engin Local 139portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like PUBLIC POLICY FORUM INC RESEARCHING COMMUNITY ISSUES
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
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 PUBLIC POLICY FORUM INC RESEARCHING COMMUNITY ISSUES: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds PUBLIC POLICY FORUM INC RESEARCHING COMMUNITY ISSUES?
- PUBLIC POLICY FORUM INC RESEARCHING COMMUNITY ISSUES (Wisconsin) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,400 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ($40,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PUBLIC POLICY FORUM INC RESEARCHING COMMUNITY ISSUES have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $55,400 in grants to PUBLIC POLICY FORUM INC RESEARCHING COMMUNITY ISSUES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PUBLIC POLICY FORUM INC RESEARCHING COMMUNITY ISSUES?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PUBLIC POLICY FORUM INC RESEARCHING COMMUNITY ISSUES 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 FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing