Wisconsin · Nonprofit
THE JOBS FIRST COALITION INC
THE JOBS FIRST COALITION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,603,310 to it, the largest being WISCONSIN INSURANCE ALLIANCE ($650,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What The Jobs First Coalition Inc does
Mission
The jobs first coalition (jfc) works to make the creation and retention of family-supporting jobs the top priority of policymakers and community leaders in wisconsin.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The jobs first coalition (jfc) works to make the creation and retention of family-supporting jobs the top priority of policymakers and community leaders in wisconsin. Economic development has been and remains one of the key public policy issues in wisconsin, and the jobs first coalition uses internet-based technologies, the media, and the mail to effectively communicate its message and organize supporters of its public policy objectives. As an advocacy organization, jfc regularly monitors legislative and regulatory activities in wisconsin and takes positions on a variety of public policy matters. As part of these advocacy efforts, jfc provides information to the general public and policymakers on issues and policies that directly impact their lives.
$490,940 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $490,940.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2024 to 2025, from $417k to $2.4M (+482%).
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.
99% of THE JOBS FIRST COALITION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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 5 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $195k → $290k.
From the IRS filings of THE JOBS FIRST COALITION 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
THE JOBS FIRST COALITION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
100% 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 THE JOBS FIRST COALITION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 71% · 2019 56% · 2020 27% · 2021 34% · 2022 37% · 2023 34% — growing more concentrated.
“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
45% of THE JOBS FIRST COALITION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
84% of THE JOBS FIRST COALITION INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
THE JOBS FIRST COALITION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,012 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,012 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE JOBS FIRST COALITION 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
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Jobs First Coalition Political Fund · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE JOBS FIRST COALITION 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 THE JOBS FIRST COALITION INC?
- THE JOBS FIRST COALITION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,603,310 to it, the largest being WISCONSIN INSURANCE ALLIANCE ($650,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE JOBS FIRST COALITION INC have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $2,603,310 in grants to THE JOBS FIRST COALITION INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE JOBS FIRST COALITION INC?
- WISCONSIN INSURANCE ALLIANCE is the largest funder on record, with $650,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE JOBS FIRST COALITION 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 18 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