Wisconsin · Nonprofit
SCHOOL CHOICE WISCONSIN INC
SCHOOL CHOICE WISCONSIN INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,909,542 to it, the largest being SCHOOL CHOICE WISCONSIN ACTION INC ($1,290,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $98k
What School Choice Wisconsin Inc does
Mission
The organization's primary purpose is to educate the public about the impact of educational choices in wisconsin on parents, the community, public schools, and the state of wisconsin. Significant activities include publishing a newsletter highlighting the parental choice program, preparing and providing research and other publications about educational choices, educating visitors about school choice, and other activities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
School choice wisconsin, inc. Produced research and maintained a website to provide information on alternative educational options available to almost 55,000 low-income children and provided information to administrators at schools participating in the private school choice programs.
$830,993 spent69% of program spendingSchool choice wisconsin, inc. Continued with activities for the community education program, whose goal is to broaden support for school choice by explaining that it is a vital community asset. Publisihing a weekly electronic newletter, get educated now, provides regular updates on school choice and shares the benefits of school choice. In-depth research provides the foundation for thoughtful problem solving to grow and enhance the program, while outreach develops community and school relations. With the continued expansion of school choice statewide, we utilized a communications and marketing campaign to educate the state's private schools and the general public about the educational choice opportunity throughout wisconsin.
$381,614 spentof which $2,874 as grants31% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,212,607.
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 2018 to 2019, from $763k to $415k (−46%).
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: 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of SCHOOL CHOICE WISCONSIN INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 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 8 funders, grant income rose $1k → $566k.
4 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $4.1M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Parent Choice Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money SCHOOL CHOICE WISCONSIN INC raised.
From the IRS filings of SCHOOL CHOICE 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
SCHOOL CHOICE WISCONSIN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 SCHOOL CHOICE WISCONSIN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 98% · 2019 98% · 2020 52% · 2021 40% · 2022 54% · 2023 48% — 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
40% of SCHOOL CHOICE WISCONSIN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
SCHOOL CHOICE WISCONSIN INC draws 51% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $130k 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
SCHOOL CHOICE WISCONSIN INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 8 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like SCHOOL CHOICE 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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
28%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Parent Choice Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SCHOOL CHOICE 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 SCHOOL CHOICE WISCONSIN INC?
- SCHOOL CHOICE WISCONSIN INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,909,542 to it, the largest being SCHOOL CHOICE WISCONSIN ACTION INC ($1,290,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SCHOOL CHOICE WISCONSIN INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $2,909,542 in grants to SCHOOL CHOICE WISCONSIN INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SCHOOL CHOICE WISCONSIN INC?
- SCHOOL CHOICE WISCONSIN ACTION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,290,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SCHOOL CHOICE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 24 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