The Wisconsin Initiative Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 871540257
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Verona, WI, USA
- Phone
- 2622158737
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $131,024
- Assets
- $7,056
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MORGAN GRUNOW (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- MORGAN GRUNOW (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- NICOLE SAFAR (DIRECTOR)
- ANDY BUCK (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Wisconsin initiative supports commonsense policies and solutions to issues facing Wisconsin working families.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Wisconsin initiative provided general support subgrants to organizations educating wisconsinites on issues related to the state legislature.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 71% for direct work, and 29% for grants.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 17
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: 72.8%; rating input score 73
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.05; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -9.4% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.6% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $95K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 8 filed related-organization links
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.