Wisconsin · Nonprofit
RENEW WISCONSIN INC
RENEW WISCONSIN INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,085,948 to it, the largest being COUILLARD SOLAR FOUNDATION INC ($1,629,510). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $5.1M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Renew Wisconsin Inc does
Mission
Renew wisconsin leads and accelerates the transformation to wisconsin's renewable energy future through advocacy, education, and collaboration.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Renew provides education about renewable energy, advocates for favorable clean energy policy, and issues grants to businesses and nonprofits looking to install solar. In 2025, renew secured major clean energy wins across wisconsin. The public service commission approved landmark projects - including maple grove solar + storage (260 mw solar / 50 mw battery), badger hollow wind, and whitewater solar - together adding nearly 600 mw of renewable capacity to the state's grid. On policy, renew advanced the conversation on wisconsin's clean energy future by submitting testimony in the value of solar studies (voss) review, pressing for a fair and measured transition from net energy metering. We also championed new community solar legislation, building momentum to expand solar access for renters, schools, and nonprofits. Through our flagship solar for good program, dozens of nonprofits - from churches to affordable housing providers - installed solar systems that cut costs and strengthened community resilience. Our new clean energy works initiative brought staff into the field with solar installers, ensuring that advocacy is grounded in the lived experience of wisconsin's clean energy…
$1,240,954 spentof which $50,708 as grants$506,010 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,240,954.
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 2017 to 2018, from $484k to $1.0M (+114%).
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: 2017 7% · 2018 2% · 2019 5% · 2020 10% · 2021 11% · 2022 10% · 2023 20% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
60% of RENEW WISCONSIN INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $90k → $681k.
4 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 RENEW WISCONSIN 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
RENEW WISCONSIN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
31% 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 RENEW WISCONSIN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 86% · 2019 47% · 2020 51% · 2021 52% · 2022 35% · 2023 39% — 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
56% of RENEW WISCONSIN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
RENEW WISCONSIN INC draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $29k 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
RENEW WISCONSIN INC is better cushioned than half of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like RENEW WISCONSIN 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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
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 RENEW WISCONSIN 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 RENEW WISCONSIN INC?
- RENEW WISCONSIN INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,085,948 to it, the largest being COUILLARD SOLAR FOUNDATION INC ($1,629,510). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RENEW WISCONSIN INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $5,085,948 in grants to RENEW WISCONSIN INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RENEW WISCONSIN INC?
- COUILLARD SOLAR FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,629,510 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RENEW WISCONSIN 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.
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 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