Wisconsin · Nonprofit
THE PARENTING NETWORK INC
THE PARENTING NETWORK INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,280,915 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY ADVOCATES INC ($3,169,307). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $5.3M
- Net assets
- $682k
What The Parenting Network Inc does
Mission
Since 1977, the parenting network (tpn) has served families throughout the greater milwaukee community with its mission to strengthen families and to prevent child abuse. Agency services are provided:"individually: home visiting and case management services:-welcome, baby! The parenting network offers individualized coaching as a part of the welcome, baby! Series of classes. -triple p (positive parenting program) offers an opportunity for parents of children (ages 2-12) to have one-on-one attention from a trained parenting coach. "in schools: healthy relationship education, teen pregnancy prevention, comprehensive sexual health education, and life skills education:-lifeskills education-making proud choices + relate, healthy relationship education"in the community: a confidential parent helpline and a wide range of parenting education and support classes developed for specific parenting populations and implemented at sites throughout the county.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Parenting education and support - to strengthen parenting and to prevent child abuse has been the mission of the parenting network since our founding in 1976. We believe that every child deserves to grow up in a safe, stable & nurturing environment. Every year, we support and educate over 8,000 parents, caregivers, individuals and families through community engagement, in-school programming, and in-home support. Our programs and services provide education and services to prevent and end the cycle of abuse. We teach classes, provide a 24 hour hotline for support, and offer other programs throughout the year. We empower our clients to nurture children in a healthy way and learn life skills that can teach new behaviors that can stop the cycle of abuse through the lens of trauma informed care. We focus on research based protective factors that are present in healthy families. In addition to serving current parents and caregivers, we also provide education to the youth through teen pregnancy prevention and support to educate them about healthy relationships.
$878,691 spent$60,471 earned by the program74% of program spendingYouth services - provides evidence-based programs that empower youth in schools or other group settings to make healthy choices.
$304,387 spent26% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,183,078.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2020 to 2021, from $707k to $824k (+17%).
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: 2018 55% · 2019 57% · 2020 64% · 2021 68% · 2022 75% · 2023 71% · 2024 80% · 2025 74%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of THE PARENTING NETWORK INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $780k → $733k.
2 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 THE PARENTING NETWORK 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 PARENTING NETWORK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 PARENTING NETWORK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 63% · 2019 50% · 2020 47% · 2021 45% · 2022 64% · 2023 67% — broadly stable.
“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
58% of THE PARENTING NETWORK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% 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
100% of THE PARENTING NETWORK 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. $55k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
THE PARENTING NETWORK INC receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $5.3M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE PARENTING NETWORK 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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE PARENTING NETWORK INC?
- THE PARENTING NETWORK INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,280,915 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY ADVOCATES INC ($3,169,307). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE PARENTING NETWORK INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $5,280,915 in grants to THE PARENTING NETWORK INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE PARENTING NETWORK INC?
- COMMUNITY ADVOCATES INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,169,307 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE PARENTING NETWORK 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 15 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