Wisconsin · Nonprofit
WISCONSIN PROGRESS INSTITUTE INC
WISCONSIN PROGRESS INSTITUTE INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $342,516 to it, the largest being TOGETHER WISCONSIN INC ($150,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $91k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $343k
- Net assets
- $28k
What Wisconsin Progress Institute Inc does
Mission
Wisconsin progress institute exists to empower wisconsin's locally elected leaders with the tools, training, and support they need to be effective, values-driven public servants.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Wisconsin progress institute exists to empower wisconsin's locally elected leaders with the tools, training, and support they need to be effective, values-driven public servants. Through nonpartisan education, policy development, mentorship, and leadership development, we help local electeds run effective board meetings, organize with their communities, and advance bold, progressive policies that improve people's lives.
$194,486 spentof which $32,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $194,486.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $196k to $127k (−35%).
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.
100% of WISCONSIN PROGRESS INSTITUTE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 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
Kristina Sandherr
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $15k → $32k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 PROGRESS INSTITUTE 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 PROGRESS INSTITUTE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
68% 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 PROGRESS INSTITUTE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 77% · 2019 100% · 2020 60% · 2021 94% · 2022 60% · 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
100% of WISCONSIN PROGRESS INSTITUTE INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $82k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 PROGRESS INSTITUTE INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like WISCONSIN PROGRESS INSTITUTE 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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Wisconsin Progress Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WISCONSIN PROGRESS INSTITUTE 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 PROGRESS INSTITUTE INC?
- WISCONSIN PROGRESS INSTITUTE INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $342,516 to it, the largest being TOGETHER WISCONSIN INC ($150,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WISCONSIN PROGRESS INSTITUTE INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $342,516 in grants to WISCONSIN PROGRESS INSTITUTE INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WISCONSIN PROGRESS INSTITUTE INC?
- TOGETHER WISCONSIN INC is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WISCONSIN PROGRESS INSTITUTE 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 7 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