WI Faith Voices
Legal name: Wisconsin Faith Voices for Justice
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 815284790
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Madison, WI, United States
- Phone
- 608-513-7121
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Interfaith Coalitions
- Affiliation
- Interfaith
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $154,400
- Expenses
- $170,998
- Assets
- $147,192
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MATTHEW KENDZIERA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- REVEREND LARRY SEXE (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MATTHEW KENDZIERA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- REVEREND LARRY SEXE (PRESIDENT)
- VICKI BERENSON (SECRETARY)
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
Connect · Empower · Advocate—connecting across faith communities, empowering people to work for the common good and a life of dignity for everyone. We advocate for change so that all individuals and families can thrive socially, prosper economically, and participate fully in civil society. Join WIVEC and co-sponsor ESTHER Fox Valley for a night of civic engagement, art, community, and celebration. This is our opportunity to come together, honor the connections we made through the Faith 250 program, and build momentum for the midterms. We are excited to host Milwaukee-based artist Niki Johnson's _Pillars of Democracy: Unite & Rise Community Art Workshop_, with guest artists Anya Ramos and Taylor Kemnitz. Through hands-on art making and conversation, participants will explore identity, voice, and the power of civic participation. The evening will also feature voting resources, civic...
What it reported doing in 2025
Justice initiatives - Wisconsin faith voices for justice connects and empowers communities of faith to engage in justice related programs and activities focused on protecting the most vulnerable in our society including the dane sanctuary coalition, which works to protect the rights of immigrants in our communities by providing emergency housing and transportation to government mandated appointments and the interfaith transgender day of remembrance service honoring the lives of those lost due to violence against transgender people in our state and country.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 58
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 59.8%; rating input score 60
- Program expense ratio: 54%; rating input score 54
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -10.8%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.86; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 32.2%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 59.8% of revenue deployed · 54% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $92K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 54/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.