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RISE WISCONSIN INC

RISE WISCONSIN INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,054,072 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC ($9,532,900). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$7.9M
Funders on record
27
Grants received
$14M
Net assets
$9.4M
11/27 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 36%
01What it does

What Rise Wisconsin Inc does

Mission

Advance the wellness of children, individuals, and families by providing early childhood and mental health services to help communities and families thrive.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Comprehensive community services and children's long term support (ccs and clts) - ccs is a medical assistance program administered by the department of dane county human services to provide a flexible array of individualized, community-based, psychosocial rehabilitation services to individuals in dane county with mental health and/or substance use issues across the lifespan. The ccs & clts dually enrolled program is a community-based and recovery-oriented program that helps children with disabilities under the age of 22 and their caregivers through supports and service coordination that help children grow and live their best lives. Services were provided to 200 children and young adults enrolled in the program in 2025.

    $1,038,181 spent$4,713 earned by the program
    22% of program spending
  2. Respite - provides respite and crisis child care 24 hours a day, 7 days a week except sundays from 9am - 4pm, to families experiencing high levels of stress. The ordinary demands of caring for children can drain a parent's time, attention and energy. Being a parent becomes more difficult when a family faces additional challenges such as unemployment, social isolation, alcohol and chemical dependency, poverty, children with special needs, domestic and community violence, mental health challenges and or the continuous responsibility of single parenthood. The respite center can help and provided services to 1862 children in 2025.

    $1,001,943 spent
    21% of program spending
  3. Court ordered evaluations - partners with mental health professionals to provide objective assessments and court ordered evaluations for individuals in dane county under the following wisconsin statutes: juvenile justice code 938.295, children's code 48.295, emergency detention 51.15, involuntary commitment for treatment 51.20 and guardianship 54/55. We utilize a diverse provider network of over 40 qualified mental health professionals including master's level clinicians, licensed psychologists, and licensed psychiatrists to conduct the evaluations. These assessments and evaluations are then used for the purposes of treatment planning and placement decisions. For 2025, we completed evaluations for 788 individuals in dane county.

    $853,428 spent$17,070 earned by the program
    18% of program spending
  4. Early childhood initiative (eci) - a voluntary home visiting program in madison/dane county, wi for pregnant women and families with children aged 0-4k. Eci services are grounded in the knowledge that families are more successful when parents and children have access to responsive, comprehensive and community-based support. During 2025, eci staff worked with 58 families through the early childhood initiative program.

    $836,942 spent
    18% of program spending
  5. Parentchild+ program - an evidenced-based early literacy and school readiness program that prepares young children ages 2-4 for school success by strengthening positive parent-child interaction through the development of critical language and pre-literacy skills. Families arematched with an early learning specialist who supports parents and caregivers in their roles as their child's first and most important teacher. For 2025, early learning specialists met with 133 children and families throughout dane county two times each week and provided them an educational book or toy to help support the child's learning.

    $642,267 spent
    14% of program spending
  6. Welcome baby & beyond - visits parents or caregivers with children ages 0-5 weekly in their homes to help them learn and build confidence in how to take care for their child, to teach them about child development and how to help their child thrive through the first five years of their life. Through regular in-home visits, family support specialists offer support, share child development and parenting information, assist parents in monitoring their child's development, and offer fun ways for parents to bond with their children. In 2025, welcome baby in partnership with the united way of dane county and the road home, another non-profit, expanded services to the road home participants in an initiative called building futures. Welcome baby & beyond and building futures are offered to dane county residents and had 40 families enrolled in 2025.

    $295,832 spent
    6% of program spending
  7. Other - the other category is made up of multiple grants with purposes varying from supporting early childhood, mental health, and respite programming, direct participant support, increasing access to high-quality care and funding agency operations to include workforce recruitment and retention.

    $24,682 spent$3,679 earned by the program
    1% of program spending

The 7 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,693,275.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($7.4M) Expenses 100 ($7.3M) Net assets 100 ($3.9M)2018 Revenue 113 ($8.3M) Expenses 108 ($7.9M) Net assets 112 ($4.3M)2019 Revenue 110 ($8.1M) Expenses 111 ($8.1M) Net assets 112 ($4.3M)2020 Revenue 129 ($9.5M) Expenses 117 ($8.5M) Net assets 137 ($5.3M)2021 Revenue 101 ($7.5M) Expenses 98 ($7.2M) Net assets 145 ($5.6M)2022 Revenue 137 ($10M) Expenses 102 ($7.4M) Net assets 214 ($8.3M)2023 Revenue 81 ($6.0M) Expenses 88 ($6.4M) Net assets 203 ($7.9M)2024 Revenue 82 ($6.1M) Expenses 87 ($6.3M) Net assets 196 ($7.6M)2025 Revenue 107 ($7.9M) Expenses 84 ($6.1M) Net assets 242 ($9.4M)
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Revenue (107)Expenses (84)Net assets (242)Peer revenue range

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 $8.5M to $11M (+29%).

$5.4M
$5.8M
$5.6M
$7.0M
$8.5M
$11M
$9.8M
$9.4M
$11M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 82% · 2018 75% · 2019 80% · 2020 72% · 2021 70% · 2022 56% · 2023 66% · 2024 60% · 2025 45%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of RISE WISCONSIN INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,632 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$95k
’17
$460k
’18
−$9k
’19
$971k
’20
$318k
’21
$2.7M
’22
−$429k
’23
−$287k
’24
$1.8M
’25
6.7
months of
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

Scott Strong

Executive director

Board chair

Gary Praznik

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed141010121114141514
Joined·+4+0+2+4+5+3+4+3
No longer listed·80052334
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $2.2M.

7 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 RISE 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

RISE WISCONSIN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

74% 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 RISE WISCONSIN INC.

68%
largest funder
93%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 99% · 2019 99% · 2020 89% · 2021 72% · 2022 44% · 2023 57% — 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

44% of RISE WISCONSIN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

76% of RISE WISCONSIN INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.

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MN
WI
MD
DE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $229k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

RISE WISCONSIN INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,002 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin23% · top quartile
Months of reserve6.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like RISE 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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 21%Fundraising 2%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

WI

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Questions and answers

Who funds RISE WISCONSIN INC?
RISE WISCONSIN INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,054,072 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC ($9,532,900). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does RISE WISCONSIN INC have?
IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $14,054,072 in grants to RISE WISCONSIN INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RISE WISCONSIN INC?
UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $9,532,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RISE 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.

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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 27 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