Wisconsin · Nonprofit
WISCONSIN ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION
WISCONSIN ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $153,491 to it, the largest being FEDERATED YOUTH FOUNDATION INC ($153,491). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.5M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $153k
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Wisconsin Electric Cooperative Association does
Mission
To provide information and assistance to its members to further their goal of providing low cost electric service.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Membership services: weca collects membership dues and provides appropriate services and assistance to its members to furnish electric energy and energy services at cost without profit. Weca has 25 members that are eligible to serve on its board of directors.
Wisconsin energy cooperative news: weca produces a monthly magazine for 19 of its members with approximately 160,000 subscribers. All of weca members are eligible for this service.
Training/safety: weca provides a job training and safety program through their partnership with dairyland power cooperative for electric cooperative employees. Weca provides this training for 23 of its electric distribution co-op members and the hundreds of field personnel employed by the respective co-ops.
Skill builder and youth education programs: weca offers more than 45 education programs for its members annually. Programming includes a mix of director, co-op employee, and youth education programs that cover a number of subjects such as director roles and responsibilities, financial metrics, industry trends, and career-related content. Weca organizes two youth leadership programs annually. Weca's youth programs introduce students from across the state to cooperative business basics, demonstrates the value of cooperation in everyday life, and also focuses on the development of leadership skills.
Weca's other program services are the safety first farm rewiring, llc program; weca finance manager; line superintendents; and member services association programs. These programs focus on addressing electric safety and animal welfare concerns and providing training and information to weca's members. Participation in the safety first farm rewiring grant program varies. The maximum grant amount for an eligible applicant is $10,000.
Annual and district meetings: weca hosts an annual meeting and four district for its members. The annual meeting generally has 150 or more participants and each district meeting has approximately 50 participants.
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $1.0M to $1.3M (+33%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Rob Richard
Current president & CEO
Board chair
Karen Newbury
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $18k → $33k.
From the IRS filings of WISCONSIN ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION’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 ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION'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.
Organizations like WISCONSIN ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION
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.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Safety First Farm Rewiring LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WISCONSIN ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds WISCONSIN ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION?
- WISCONSIN ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $153,491 to it, the largest being FEDERATED YOUTH FOUNDATION INC ($153,491). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WISCONSIN ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $153,491 in grants to WISCONSIN ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WISCONSIN ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION?
- FEDERATED YOUTH FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $153,491 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WISCONSIN ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION 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 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