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SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC

SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,814,304 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($762,500). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$4.2M
Funders on record
23
Grants received
$1.8M
Net assets
$11M
11/23 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 48%
01What it does

What Southwest Wisconsin Technical College Foundation Inc does

Mission

Provide scholarships and assistance to students and faculty for the primary benefit of southwest wisconsin technical college.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Southwest wisconsin technical college foundation annually awards scholarships and provides emergency grants, student support funds, and academic program support to southwest tech students. In addition, professional development funds are provided to southwest tech faculty, staff and administration as well as funding for capital projects and college priority projects.

    $890,566 spentof which $887,818 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $890,566.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($887k) Expenses 100 ($578k) Net assets 100 ($3.8M)2018 Revenue 120 ($1.1M) Expenses 155 ($898k) Net assets 104 ($4.0M)2019 Revenue 127 ($1.1M) Expenses 71 ($411k) Net assets 124 ($4.7M)2020 Revenue 70 ($622k) Expenses 150 ($866k) Net assets 123 ($4.7M)2021 Revenue 179 ($1.6M) Expenses 147 ($847k) Net assets 175 ($6.7M)2022 Revenue 273 ($2.4M) Expenses 124 ($716k) Net assets 179 ($6.9M)2023 Revenue 139 ($1.2M) Expenses 184 ($1.1M) Net assets 199 ($7.6M)2024 Revenue 188 ($1.7M) Expenses 211 ($1.2M) Net assets 227 ($8.7M)2025 Revenue 471 ($4.2M) Expenses 167 ($967k) Net assets 276 ($11M)
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Revenue (471)Expenses (167)Net assets (276)

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 $4.7M to $6.7M (+43%).

$4.0M
$4.1M
$4.8M
$4.7M
$6.7M
$6.9M
$7.6M
$8.7M
$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

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$309k
’17
$163k
’18
$719k
’19
−$244k
’20
$741k
’21
$1.7M
’22
$174k
’23
$450k
’24
$3.2M
’25
15
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

Dennis Cooley

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed151613161315141314
Joined·+4+3+7+5+6+5+0+6
No longer listed·36484615
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $106k → $247k.

13 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% 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: $709k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Swtc Real Estate Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC raised.

From the IRS filings of SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 22 of 23 funders by total. 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

SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

98% 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 SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC.

42%
largest funder
69%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 95% · 2019 54% · 2020 58% · 2021 78% · 2022 59% · 2023 69% — 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

33% of SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

90% of SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $189k that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from Wisconsin funders.

MN
WI
IA

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

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’20
’23
Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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

Organizations like SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION 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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 6%Fundraising 2%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

67%

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

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Swtc Real Estate Foundation Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC?
SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,814,304 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($762,500). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,814,304 in grants to SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $762,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION 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 23 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