Wisconsin · Nonprofit
WISCONSIN JUDICARE INC
WISCONSIN JUDICARE INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,163,457 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($9,607,510). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.2M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Wisconsin Judicare Inc does
Mission
Wisconsin judicare's mission is to provide legal assistance to those who otherwise cannot afford it.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The mission of wisconsin judicare, inc. Dba judicare legal aid [jla] is to provide legal assistance to those who otherwise cannot afford it. Jla is committed to providing high quality legal services. Jla has staff that provide direct representation, as well as education for clients and their families, providing rights and responsibilities under the law. Staff members also provide education to the bar and the community in ways to address the diverse needs of our service population.during this fiscal year, jla provided legal services in 2,678 cases in various subjects. The breakdown of those subjects is below. To provide these services, jla used the services...(continued on schedule o)of nineteen paid staff attorneys, six legal advocates, four paralegals and 80 private attorneys and tribal lay advocates. Jla's work benefits the public in many ways. Cases move more quickly and more efficiently through the legal system when an attorney represents a party to the case. By providing attorneys to represent parties, jla empowers our low-income clients to achieve fairer outcomes and navigate an incredibly complicated legal system. Jla also plays a part supporting victims of violence as they…
$2,289,785 spent$305,982 earned by the program80% of program spendingWisconsin judicare's indian law office provides legal advice, referrals, and extended representation to financially-eligible native americans enrolled in one of the eleven federally recognized tribes in wisconsin and who are unable to pay for legal services in civil (non-criminal) and tribal (non-criminal and criminal) cases. During the year, wisconsin judicare's indian law office handled 1,029 cases, of which 987 cases were closed with 21 of the cases litigated in court.
$574,829 spent20% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,864,614.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $1.3M to $2.4M (+90%).
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: 2020 70% · 2021 74% · 2022 70% · 2023 90% · 2024 78% · 2025 84%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of WISCONSIN JUDICARE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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 6 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.
Board chair
Hon Dave Raasch
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $384k → $2.8M.
2 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 JUDICARE 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
WISCONSIN JUDICARE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 WISCONSIN JUDICARE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 65% · 2019 57% · 2020 71% · 2021 67% · 2022 55% · 2023 57% — diversifying over time.
“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
60% of WISCONSIN JUDICARE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 93% 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
WISCONSIN JUDICARE INC draws 62% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21k 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
WISCONSIN JUDICARE INC's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 852 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding WISCONSIN JUDICARE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.9M on record.
- Department of Justice$1.4M
- Department of the Treasury$500k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like WISCONSIN JUDICARE 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
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 JUDICARE 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 JUDICARE INC?
- WISCONSIN JUDICARE INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,163,457 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($9,607,510). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WISCONSIN JUDICARE INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $16,163,457 in grants to WISCONSIN JUDICARE INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WISCONSIN JUDICARE INC?
- LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $9,607,510 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WISCONSIN JUDICARE 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 14 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing