Wisconsin Literacy Inc
Madison, WI · EIN 39-1628898. Reported 67 grants totalling $2,870,553 to 49 organizations across tax years 2022-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 49 distinct organizations, with 7% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 100% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 1 year-to-year transition. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $43,108. Half of what it reported fell between $27,404 and $50,195; the smallest was $5,324 and the largest $144,102. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
49 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $2,131,170 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Community Center for Immigrants Incorporated | Milwaukee, WI | $189,999 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Literacy Network Inc | Madison, WI | $127,620 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Health Connections Incorporated | Milwaukee, WI | $114,143 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| People of Progression Inc | Appleton, WI | $113,733 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Northeast Wisconsin Hmong Professionals Incorporated | Appleton, WI | $110,160 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| International Institute of Wisconsin Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $105,384 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| African Heritage Inc | Appleton, WI | $105,234 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Winnebago Area Literacy Council | Oshkosh, WI | $102,715 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Burmese Rohingya Community of Wisconsin Incorporated | Milwaukee, WI | $102,642 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Neighborhood House of Milwaukee Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $99,306 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Greater Galilee Community Development Corporation | Milwaukee, WI | $94,537 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Mason Temple Church of God in Christ | Milwaukee, WI | $87,772 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Hmong American Friendship Association | Milwaukee, WI | $87,738 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Community Initiatives of Wisconsin Inc | Menasha, WI | $86,092 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Black and Brown Womyn Power Coalition Inc | Madison, WI | $83,584 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Ecares Agency Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $77,245 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| A&s Unlimited Solutions | Racine, WI | $75,386 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Multicultural Coalition Inc | Menasha, WI | $71,154 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Hephatha Lutheran Church | Milwaukee, WI | $68,108 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Family Resource Centers of Sheboygan County Inc | Plymouth, WI | $66,331 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ebenezer Church of God in Christ Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $55,214 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Greater New Birth Missionary Baptist Church | Milwaukee, WI | $51,676 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Literacy Services of Wisconsin Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $50,744 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Divine Wellness & Counseling | Glendale, WI | $50,016 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Safe & Sound Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $49,993 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kingdom Reconciliation Outreach Ministries Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $49,984 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Essentially Empowered Incorporated | Thiensville, WI | $46,096 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Calvary Baptist Church | Milwaukee, WI | $44,930 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Racine Literacy Council Inc | Racine, WI | $44,335 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Church of God in Christ Inc | Memphis, TN | $43,497 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Latino Academy of Workforce Development Inc | Madison, WI | $43,064 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Fond Du Lac Adult Literacy Services Inc | Fond Du Lac, WI | $35,259 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Hmong Baptist Ministry Inc | Sun Prairie, WI | $34,019 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Our Daily Bread Community Outreach Center Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $31,314 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lutheran Social Services of Wisconsin and Upper Michigan | West Allis, WI | $31,209 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kenosha Literacy Council Inc | Kenosha, WI | $31,171 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hanan Refugees Relief Group | Milwaukee, WI | $27,809 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Marathon County Literacy Council Inc | Wausau, WI | $27,699 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| United States Special Guerilla Unit Inc | Manitowoc, WI | $27,556 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Portage County Literacy Council Inc | Stevens Point, WI | $21,567 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mother Kathryn Daniels Conference Center Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $16,868 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Wisconsin Council of Churches | Madison, WI | $15,853 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| St Michael and St Rose Literacy Program | Milwaukee, WI | $15,119 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Literacy Chippewa Valley | Eau Claire, WI | $14,116 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| We All Rise African American Resource Center Inc | Green Bay, WI | $13,692 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| CASA Guadalupe Education Center Inc | West Bend, WI | $9,167 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Fox Valley Literacy Council Inc | Appleton, WI | $8,801 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Northwest Wisconsin Concentrated Employment Program Inc | Ashland, WI | $5,578 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Community Services Agency Inc | Green Bay, WI | $5,324 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
18 of 49 (37%) received money in more than one year over the 2 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Community Center for Immigrants Inc
TO SUPPORT COVID-19 VACCINE COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROGRAM. - Literacy Network
TO SUPPORT BRP ELL, AND DCF LIT SVCS PROGRAMS - International Institute of Wisconsin
TO SUPPORT BUREAU OF REFUGEE ELL PROGRAM - Family Resource Center of Sheboygan County
TO SUPPORT COVID-19 VCO, BRP ELL, AND DCF LIT SVCS PROGRAMS - Portage County Literacy Council
TO SUPPORT BRP DCF LIT SVCS PROGRAM - We All Rise African American Resource Center
TO SUPPORT COVID-19 VACCINE COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROGRAM430 S WEBSTER AVE
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 36 of 49 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 18 | $739,383 | $45,209 |
| 2023 | 49 | $2,131,170 | $34,220 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
98% of its giving went to organizations in Wisconsin. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $43,108 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Wisconsin.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Wisconsin Literacy Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2021-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 211 S Paterson St 170, Madison, WI, 53703.
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