Wisconsin · Nonprofit
WISCONSIN MANUFACTURERS AND COMMERCE INC
WISCONSIN MANUFACTURERS AND COMMERCE INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,500 to it, the largest being AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY ($35,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.1M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $39k
- Net assets
- $5.5M
What Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce Inc does
Mission
Founded in 1911, our mission is to make wisconsin the most competitive state in the nation to do business. We are wisconsin's business voice.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Wmc's government relations team of lobbyists advocates on behalf of members to the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of wisconsin government. Wmc promotes passage of wmc public policy agenda established by wmc's governing body and advocates on other policies that could have a positive or negative impact on wisconsin's economic competitiveness, legal climate, or judicial system. The government relations program also conducts research in support of our policy agenda and communicates with policymakers, the media, and the general public about making wisconsin the most competitive state in the nation.
Wisconsin safety council (wsc) is the state's leading provider of safety training and products, serving members of all sizes and every sector of the economy. Wsc provides scheduled training programs across wisconsin in addition to private, customized training for individual companies. It offers safety products ranging from first aid training materials to emergency defibrillators. Wsc is the official state chapter of the national safety council.
Wmc's membership program is dedicated to retaining existing members and recruiting new members in support of the wmc public policy agenda and other activities. Wmc's membership department assists members in understanding grassroots strategies to advance the business agenda and helps communicate how wmc's advocacy creates value for member businesses.
Wmc events - wmc hosts several informational seminars and events including business day, each of which deal with a variety of topics including health care, environment, energy, transportation, taxes, human resources, legal reform, small business, and other issues of interest to the business community.wmc business voice - morning digest, wmc's digital publication, provides members with business-focused updates. Designed to help business leaders, publications reach approximately 7,500 business leaders and chambers of commerce across wisconsin.
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 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 2022 to 2023, from $5.5M to $7.3M (+31%).
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: 2018 1% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 1% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Kurt Bauer
President/CEO
Board chair
Christopher Drees
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $4k → $18k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $8k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Wisconsin Transportation Builders Association Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money WISCONSIN MANUFACTURERS AND COMMERCE INC raised.
From the IRS filings of WISCONSIN MANUFACTURERS AND COMMERCE 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 MANUFACTURERS AND COMMERCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
91% 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 MANUFACTURERS AND COMMERCE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
WISCONSIN MANUFACTURERS AND COMMERCE INC draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 2 states in all.
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 MANUFACTURERS AND COMMERCE 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.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Wmc Foundation Inc · exempt
- Wmc Issues Mobilization Council Inc · exempt
- Wmc Jobs Fund · exempt
- Wmc Litigation Center Inc · exempt
- Wmc Service Corporation · corp_trust
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WISCONSIN MANUFACTURERS AND COMMERCE 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 MANUFACTURERS AND COMMERCE INC?
- WISCONSIN MANUFACTURERS AND COMMERCE INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,500 to it, the largest being AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY ($35,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WISCONSIN MANUFACTURERS AND COMMERCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $38,500 in grants to WISCONSIN MANUFACTURERS AND COMMERCE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WISCONSIN MANUFACTURERS AND COMMERCE INC?
- AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WISCONSIN MANUFACTURERS AND COMMERCE 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.
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 2 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