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SOUTHWESTERN WISCONSIN COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC

SOUTHWESTERN WISCONSIN COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,295,155 to it, the largest being The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc ($1,430,406). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$17M
Revenue FY2024
26
Funders on record
$2.3M
Grants received
$11M
Net assets
17/26 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%

Against its field

SOUTHWESTERN WISCONSIN COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,286 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin9% · top quartile
Months of reserve3.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,286 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($8.3M) Expenses 100 ($7.8M) Net assets 100 ($6.5M)2018 Revenue 112 ($9.3M) Expenses 115 ($8.9M) Net assets 106 ($6.9M)2019 Revenue 128 ($11M) Expenses 129 ($10M) Net assets 115 ($7.5M)2020 Revenue 147 ($12M) Expenses 146 ($11M) Net assets 97 ($6.3M)2021 Revenue 160 ($13M) Expenses 160 ($13M) Net assets 110 ($7.1M)2022 Revenue 180 ($15M) Expenses 188 ($15M) Net assets 110 ($7.1M)2023 Revenue 182 ($15M) Expenses 184 ($14M) Net assets 132 ($8.6M)2024 Revenue 201 ($17M) Expenses 196 ($15M) Net assets 168 ($11M)
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Revenue (201)Expenses (196)Net assets (168)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 71% · 2018 71% · 2019 73% · 2020 76% · 2021 75% · 2022 80% · 2023 78% · 2024 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

83% of SOUTHWESTERN WISCONSIN COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,397 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$539k
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$376k
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$628k
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$847k
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$801k
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$273k
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$803k
23
$1.4M
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3.3
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $216k → $334k.

6 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)7% 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: $915k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Wisconsin Community Action Program Association Incorporated). These are real filings, and they are not money SOUTHWESTERN WISCONSIN COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC raised.

From the IRS filings of SOUTHWESTERN WISCONSIN COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 25 of 26 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

SOUTHWESTERN WISCONSIN COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

95% 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 SOUTHWESTERN WISCONSIN COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC.

62%
largest funder
80%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 73% · 2019 81% · 2020 68% · 2021 66% · 2022 62% · 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

33% of SOUTHWESTERN WISCONSIN COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

83% of SOUTHWESTERN WISCONSIN COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.

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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. $159k 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 26 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding SOUTHWESTERN WISCONSIN COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $44.0M on record.

Federal$44.0M
grants $44.0Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$38.4M
  • Department of Agriculture$4.1M
  • Corporation for National and Community Service$811k
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$750k

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 SOUTHWESTERN WISCONSIN COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Wisconsin

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 13%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

100%

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 5 related entities

  • Community Action Ventures LLC · disregarded
  • Swcap Real Estate LLC · disregarded
  • Swcap Properties LLC · disregarded
  • Brodhead Senior Village LLC · disregarded
  • Lancaster Senior Village LLC · disregarded

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOUTHWESTERN WISCONSIN COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds SOUTHWESTERN WISCONSIN COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC?
SOUTHWESTERN WISCONSIN COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,295,155 to it, the largest being The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc ($1,430,406). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SOUTHWESTERN WISCONSIN COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC have?
IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $2,295,155 in grants to SOUTHWESTERN WISCONSIN COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SOUTHWESTERN WISCONSIN COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC?
The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,430,406 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOUTHWESTERN WISCONSIN COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM 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 26funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing