Wisconsin · Nonprofit
Wisconsin Access to Justice Commission
Wisconsin Access to Justice Commission (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $32 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($32). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $80k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $32
- Net assets
- $182k
What Wisconsin Access to Justice Commission does
Mission
To develop and encourage means of expanding access to the civil justice system for unrepresented low-income wisconsin residents
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
1-wisconsin free legal answers wfla provides an easy to use way for eligible members of the public to obtain free legal advice from licensed wisconsin attorneys. Attorneys volunteer their time to answer legal questions posed through the website. 2-the commission conducted public outreach and education that informed the public and decision makers about the value and impact of providing access to civil legal aid to all wisconsin residents. 3-the commission conducts systems reform research and produces recommendations for changes to court rules, processes and related statutes that improve fairness in the court system.
$32,401 spentof which $10,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $32,401.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $130k to $176k (+35%).
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.
0% of Wisconsin Access to Justice Commission’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10 → $11.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Wisconsin Access to Justice Commission’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Wisconsin Access to Justice Commission'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Wisconsin Access to Justice Commission runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,052 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,052 crime & legal nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Wisconsin Access to Justice Commission
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.
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Wisconsin Access to Justice Commission: 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 Wisconsin Access to Justice Commission?
- Wisconsin Access to Justice Commission (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $32 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($32). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Wisconsin Access to Justice Commission have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $32 in grants to Wisconsin Access to Justice Commission, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Wisconsin Access to Justice Commission?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $32 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Wisconsin Access to Justice Commission 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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