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WISCONSIN NATIONAL GUARD ASSOCIATION INC

WISCONSIN NATIONAL GUARD ASSOCIATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,600 to it, the largest being METROPOLITAN MILWAUKEE ASSOCIATION OF COMMERCE ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$668k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$11k
Net assets
$1.2M
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Wisconsin National Guard Association Inc does

Mission

To promote the relevance, readiness, and modernization of our national guard, improving the quality of life for our members, and supporting state and national policies to advance the security of the united states.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The wisconsin national guard association offers, low-cost, state sponsored group life insurance (ssli), policies for wisconsin national guard soldiers and airmen and their dependents. An initial free $10,000 policy is offered to every new enlistee in the wisconsin national guard; 704 new members of the wisconsin national guard took advantage of this program in 2024.

  2. Promote national guard and americanism through the awards gifts and grants committee by recognizing the outstanding accomplishments of wisconsin national guard men and women. Provide information to association members via newsletter, which is published six times a year, and through the website winga.org. Provide educational opportunities of association members and their dependents through ten annual scholarships. Commemorate the memory of those wisconsin military members who gave their lives in the service to the nation through the witmer memorial, which identifies, by name, each wisconsin service member to perish since 9/11 in support of the global war on terror.

  3. Sponsor the army wall of honor and the air guard wall of fame to recognize wisconsin guard members who have gone above and beyond in their servcie to our state and nation.

  4. Offer professional development training and seminars to enhance junior officers leadership skills to include mentorship by senior officers.

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($721k) Expenses 100 ($635k) Net assets 100 ($1.5M)2018 Revenue 80 ($575k) Expenses 104 ($659k) Net assets 92 ($1.4M)2019 Revenue 67 ($483k) Expenses 101 ($644k) Net assets 93 ($1.4M)2020 Revenue 108 ($777k) Expenses 73 ($466k) Net assets 122 ($1.9M)2021 Revenue 71 ($511k) Expenses 92 ($584k) Net assets 128 ($2.0M)2022 Revenue 66 ($475k) Expenses 114 ($722k) Net assets 96 ($1.5M)2023 Revenue 77 ($558k) Expenses 112 ($711k) Net assets 92 ($1.4M)2024 Revenue 93 ($668k) Expenses 152 ($967k) Net assets 77 ($1.2M)
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Revenue (93)Expenses (152)Net assets (77)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $1.1M to $1.8M (+60%).

$1.4M
$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.8M
$1.8M
$1.3M
$1.6M
$1.3M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$85k
’17
−$84k
’18
−$161k
’19
$311k
’20
−$73k
’21
−$247k
’22
−$153k
’23
−$299k
’24
1.6
months of
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

Col Ret Mike Williams

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed2834262624272725
Joined·+15+8+5+4+11+0+17
No longer listed·916568019
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $300.

From the IRS filings of WISCONSIN NATIONAL GUARD ASSOCIATION 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 NATIONAL GUARD ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% 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

94% 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 NATIONAL GUARD ASSOCIATION INC.

94%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 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

100% of WISCONSIN NATIONAL GUARD ASSOCIATION INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.

WI

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

’21
’22
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

Organizations like WISCONSIN NATIONAL GUARD ASSOCIATION 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

05Profile & governance

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

Governance

24
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds WISCONSIN NATIONAL GUARD ASSOCIATION INC?
WISCONSIN NATIONAL GUARD ASSOCIATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,600 to it, the largest being METROPOLITAN MILWAUKEE ASSOCIATION OF COMMERCE ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WISCONSIN NATIONAL GUARD ASSOCIATION INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $10,600 in grants to WISCONSIN NATIONAL GUARD ASSOCIATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WISCONSIN NATIONAL GUARD ASSOCIATION INC?
METROPOLITAN MILWAUKEE ASSOCIATION OF COMMERCE is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WISCONSIN NATIONAL GUARD ASSOCIATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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