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TENANT RESOURCE CENTER INC

TENANT RESOURCE CENTER INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,571,246 to it, the largest being THE ROOTS AND WINGS FOUNDATION INC ($865,375). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$14M
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$1.6M
Net assets
$111k
6/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Tenant Resource Center Inc does

Mission

Tenant resource center defends housing as a human right and strengthens housing stability in our communities by preventing evictions and educating and empowering individuals and families.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Tenant services assists persons in asserting their rights in rental relationships by providing legal information, counseling, and referrals, and provides education and information services to landlords and tenants about their rights and responsibilities in rental properties. The housing help desk provides tenants, landlords, and agency staff with information and applications for low-cost housing, public and subsidized housing, transitional housing, and shelter services. The help desk can also make referrals to useful community resources including limited assistance for eviction prevention, security deposits, and utilities.

    $10,915,785 spentof which $8,953,682 as grants$500 earned by the program
    97% of program spending
  2. Homeless services provides resources to persons in the madison area who are homeless or who are recovering from homelessness. Assists these individuals with seeking housing, applying for employment, and obtaining social services.

    $293,830 spentof which $129,611 as grants
    3% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,209,615.

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 ($521k) Expenses 100 ($491k) Net assets 100 ($73k)2018 Revenue 165 ($861k) Expenses 166 ($816k) Net assets 161 ($118k)2019 Revenue 192 ($999k) Expenses 200 ($982k) Net assets 183 ($134k)2020 Revenue 2262 ($12M) Expenses 2361 ($12M) Net assets 441 ($322k)2021 Revenue 3433 ($18M) Expenses 3607 ($18M) Net assets 680 ($497k)2022 Revenue 1867 ($9.7M) Expenses 1899 ($9.3M) Net assets 1233 ($901k)2023 Revenue 2129 ($11M) Expenses 2367 ($12M) Net assets 512 ($374k)2024 Revenue 2595 ($14M) Expenses 2807 ($14M) Net assets 152 ($111k)
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Revenue (2595)Expenses (2807)Net assets (152)

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 $421k to $4.0M (+856%).

$101k
$163k
$176k
$421k
$4.0M
$1.8M
$2.3M
$4.0M
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 89% · 2018 88% · 2019 82% · 2020 97% · 2021 97% · 2022 94% · 2023 97% · 2024 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$30k
’17
$45k
’18
$17k
’19
$189k
’20
$175k
’21
$404k
’22
−$527k
’23
−$263k
’24
2.4
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.

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Listed9101715131098
Joined·+7+9+5+3+4+1+0
No longer listed·6275721
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $11k → $349k.

4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 TENANT RESOURCE CENTER 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

TENANT RESOURCE CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

45% 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 TENANT RESOURCE CENTER INC.

55%
largest funder
83%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 58% · 2020 78% · 2021 67% · 2022 72% · 2023 72% — 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

83% of TENANT RESOURCE CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

TENANT RESOURCE CENTER INC draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 2 states in all.

WA
WI

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

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $334k 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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding TENANT RESOURCE CENTER INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.3M on record.

Federal$1.3M
grants $1.3Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.3M

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 TENANT RESOURCE CENTER 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

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 2%Fundraising 1%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited 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

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Questions and answers

Who funds TENANT RESOURCE CENTER INC?
TENANT RESOURCE CENTER INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,571,246 to it, the largest being THE ROOTS AND WINGS FOUNDATION INC ($865,375). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TENANT RESOURCE CENTER INC have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,571,246 in grants to TENANT RESOURCE CENTER INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TENANT RESOURCE CENTER INC?
THE ROOTS AND WINGS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $865,375 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TENANT RESOURCE CENTER 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 10 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