Wisconsin · Nonprofit
WISCONSIN PUBLIC EDUCATION ACTION FUND INC
WISCONSIN PUBLIC EDUCATION ACTION FUND INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $445,000 to it, the largest being STRATEGIC VICTORY FUND ($200,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $254k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $445k
- Net assets
- $160k
What Wisconsin Public Education Action Fund Inc does
Mission
To champion public education through non-partisan support for public school resources, legislative measures that benefit all public school students, referenda that serve communities, and the election of public education advocates at all levels of government.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Wisconsin's public education defense fund protects wisconsin public school students against attacks on the freedom to teach and learn in safe, welcoming, joyful, inclusive environments that allow all students to thrive. Building a strong public education defense fund is key to fighting back against increasingly dangerous political agendas that threaten our students' right to shine and succeed in excellent public schools.wisconsin's public education defense fund supports nonpartisan, nonprofit work to: support all students and protect them from hateful attacks; stop harmful and divisive private voucher programs; fight back against unfair funding by holding the state accountable for meeting its constitutional obligation to our public schools; protect public educators' freedom to teach the truth about our complicated history in a supportive environment, and support school boards and districts against attacks on equity and racial justice initiatives and policies that protect lgbtq+ students; recruit, elect and support public education champions; educate voters on all ballot questions that impact our students and their public schools; organize communities to take action at the state…
$46,439 spentof which $6,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $46,439.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2024 to 2025, from $38k to $160k (+318%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 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
Heather Dubois Bourenane
Executive director
Board chair
Julie Underwood
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $250k → $95k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 PUBLIC EDUCATION ACTION FUND 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 PUBLIC EDUCATION ACTION FUND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 PUBLIC EDUCATION ACTION FUND INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 80% · 2023 53% — 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.
Where its funders are
WISCONSIN PUBLIC EDUCATION ACTION FUND INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $170k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like WISCONSIN PUBLIC EDUCATION ACTION FUND 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
35% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Wisconsin Alliance for Excellent Schools Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WISCONSIN PUBLIC EDUCATION ACTION FUND 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 PUBLIC EDUCATION ACTION FUND INC?
- WISCONSIN PUBLIC EDUCATION ACTION FUND INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $445,000 to it, the largest being STRATEGIC VICTORY FUND ($200,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WISCONSIN PUBLIC EDUCATION ACTION FUND INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $445,000 in grants to WISCONSIN PUBLIC EDUCATION ACTION FUND INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WISCONSIN PUBLIC EDUCATION ACTION FUND INC?
- STRATEGIC VICTORY FUND is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WISCONSIN PUBLIC EDUCATION ACTION FUND 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 4 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