Wisconsin · Nonprofit
RACINE VOCATIONAL MINISTRY INC
RACINE VOCATIONAL MINISTRY INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,600,566 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF RACINE COUNTY INC ($608,870). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $742k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $294k
What Racine Vocational Ministry Inc does
Mission
Racine vocational ministry prepares participants to become fully engaged in their lives by offering tools and skills, respecting their inherent dignity, and walking along side them in their transformative journeys.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The average rate of annual recidivism in wisconsin is 25% for high, medium, and low-risk individuals. The three-year state rate for medium and high-risk individuals averages 38.1%. We served 164 reentry participants in 2025. Rkvm has maintained a rate of only 1.2% for one year. Our three-year rate for 2023-2025 is 3.6%, and a 90% reduction over the state average. Rkvm has been recognized as a best practice by the u.s. Attorney's office of the eastern district of wisconsin and by the international association of chiefs of police. Kenosha vocational ministry, a subsidiary of rkvm, is overseen in collaboration with the wisconsin department of corrections and kenosha county human services with support from the kenosha job center.
$278,263 spent39% of program spendingIn 2025, virtually all of the participants (98%) who enroll in our programs qualify under the hud definition as low income. In 2025, rkvm served 105 homeless participants, 31 adult gang participants, 48 youth gang participants, a record 164 prison returnees, and 215 in the walk-in program. Those we serve have experienced a greater capacity to reconnect with their families, attain and maintain employment, and stabilize their lives through increased self-sufficiency. They have also gained more positive, pro-social modes of cognition. Rkvm assisted this population with over $25,000 in support for driver's license recovery, gas cards, bus passes, work clothes, work tools, cna certificates, forklift licenses, and cdl certifications. Rkvm's homeless assistance is done in the context of our local continuum of care.
$217,302 spent$70,708 earned by the program31% of program spendingThis program serves some of racine's most challenged populations. A number of our walk-in participants are struggling with mental illness, antisocial attitudes, criminal backgrounds, gang involvement, and chronic episodes of unemployment. The majority of our walk-ins have been employed for more than one year. Racine kenosha vocational ministry placed 347 people in jobs and education in 2025. Also in 2025, 71 people attained promotions and 84 people earned certificates for programs and job skills in programs like forklift, cna, and aoda and anger management classes. This program is substantially funded by the united way of racine county and the sc johnson fund.
$215,942 spent30% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $711,507.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $110k to $287k (+160%).
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: 2020 40% · 2021 43% · 2022 36% · 2023 40% · 2024 34% · 2025 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of RACINE VOCATIONAL MINISTRY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
Markus Watts
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $123k → $241k.
5 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 RACINE VOCATIONAL MINISTRY 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
RACINE VOCATIONAL MINISTRY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
72% 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 RACINE VOCATIONAL MINISTRY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 58% · 2019 60% · 2020 38% · 2021 43% · 2022 37% · 2023 29% — 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
63% of RACINE VOCATIONAL MINISTRY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
92% of RACINE VOCATIONAL MINISTRY 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. $527k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Against its field
RACINE VOCATIONAL MINISTRY INC has grown faster than half of the 17,450 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,450 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding RACINE VOCATIONAL MINISTRY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $29k on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$29k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like RACINE VOCATIONAL MINISTRY 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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 RACINE VOCATIONAL MINISTRY INC?
- RACINE VOCATIONAL MINISTRY INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,600,566 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF RACINE COUNTY INC ($608,870). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RACINE VOCATIONAL MINISTRY INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,600,566 in grants to RACINE VOCATIONAL MINISTRY INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RACINE VOCATIONAL MINISTRY INC?
- UNITED WAY OF RACINE COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $608,870 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RACINE VOCATIONAL MINISTRY 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 15 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing