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Wisconsin First Inc

Wisconsin First Inc (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $61,000 to it, the largest being WISCONSIN INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT NOW INC ($61,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$5k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$61k
Net assets
$4k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 61%
01What it does

What Wisconsin First Inc does

Mission

To promote social welfare, including but not limited to, promoting policies and supporting legislation that advance the interests of Wisconsin families an businesses by preserving jobs, promoting an economically competitive environment for Wisconsin business, ensuring better accountablity for legislation decision making, with the Corporation working to educate and inform policymakers and the general public on policies that will improve the lives of Wisconsin residents.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. The Organization promoted policies and supporting legislation that advances the interests of Wisconsin families and businesses by educating and informing the general public on policies that will improve the lives of Wisconsin residents.

    $0 spent

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($83k) Expenses 100 ($86k) Net assets 100 ($1k)2020 Revenue 5 ($4k) Expenses 4 ($4k) Net assets 125 ($1k)2021 Revenue 11 ($9k) Expenses 12 ($10k) Net assets 23 ($245)2022 Revenue 5 ($5k) Expenses 2 ($2k) Net assets 280 ($3k)2023 Revenue 5 ($5k) Expenses 5 ($4k) Net assets 313 ($3k)2024 Revenue 17 ($14k) Expenses 9 ($8k) Net assets 939 ($10k)2025 Revenue 6 ($5k) Expenses 13 ($11k) Net assets 337 ($4k)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (6)Expenses (13)Net assets (337)

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 $3k to $10k (+200%).

$1k
$1k
$245
$3k
$3k
$10k
$4k
2019202020212022202320242025
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$3k
’19
$264
’20
−$1k
’21
$3k
’22
$353
’23
$7k
’24
−$6k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $11k → $50k.

Funder
'17
'19
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of Wisconsin First 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.

Where its funders are

100% of Wisconsin First Inc's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.

WI

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

’17
’19
Wisconsin out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

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In Wisconsin

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Wisconsin First 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 Wisconsin First Inc?
Wisconsin First Inc (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $61,000 to it, the largest being WISCONSIN INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT NOW INC ($61,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Wisconsin First Inc have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $61,000 in grants to Wisconsin First Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Wisconsin First Inc?
WISCONSIN INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT NOW INC is the largest funder on record, with $61,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Wisconsin First 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 2019–2025), 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