WISPIRG Foundation

Legal name: Wispirg Foundation Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
391926253
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2016–2021
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2017, Form 990-EZ 2021
Location
Milwaukee, WI, USA
Phone
6082519501
Rating
49
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Private Grantmaking Foundations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$11,471
Expenses
$1,693
Assets
$0
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Mia Scampini Moore (President, Director)
  • Stacey Hafner (Vice President, Director)

People named in this filing

  • Mia Scampini Moore (President, Director)
  • Stacey Hafner (Vice President, Director)
  • Nancie Koenigsberg (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 2021. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

WISPIRG Foundation offers an independent voice that works on behalf of the public interest.

What it reported doing in 2021

Public education and outreach: recruiting volunteers, distributing educational literature, conducting surveys and discussing issues with the public to promote and build support to improve public and electric transportation, protect public health by addressing lead in drinking water, and promote consumer protection by strengthening regulations around product safety and predatory financial practices.

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 100% 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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 13
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 53
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 3.9%; rating input score 4
  • Program expense ratio: 26.6%; rating input score 27

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 85.2%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -39.7% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -23.8% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -17.3% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 8 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 3.9% of revenue deployed · 26.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $450 in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2016 to 2021
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 56 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 4/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 27/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.