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Wisconsin · Nonprofit
WISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR LAW & LIBERTY (Wisconsin) is funded by 51 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $15,386,620 in grants to it, the largest being The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc ($4,310,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
WISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR LAW & LIBERTY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 173 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 173 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
94% of WISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR LAW & LIBERTY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
The base broadened — 5 funders to 24 as grant income moved $157k → $2.9M.
12 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 INSTITUTE FOR LAW & LIBERTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 funders by total. Association, not causation.
WISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR LAW & LIBERTY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 59% · 2019 38% · 2020 31% · 2021 30% · 2022 34% · 2023 27% · 2024 26% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
44% of WISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR LAW & LIBERTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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.
WISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR LAW & LIBERTY is locally rooted: 68% of its grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 51 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
82% of spending goes to programs.
60%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Operates in 29 states
Every figure is 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 51funders 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. view filing