- Revenue 2024
- $856,095
- Expenses 2024
- $1,041,348
Program services were 80.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- C30
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 214 N HAMILTON ST STE 201
These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
Wisconsin Wetlands Association is dedicated to the protection, restoration, and enjoyment of wetlands and associated ecosystems through science-based programs, education, and advocacy.
Activities or mission (Part I)
Dedicated to protection, restoration, and enjoyment of wetlands and associated ecosystems through science-based programs, education, and advocacy.
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1. Wetland Outreach and Education: in 2024-25, WWA developed and presented education and outreach programs to diverse audiences of laypersons and experts and advanced the use of wetland science on matters related to wetland conservation. Programs include a bi-weekly webinar called the Wetland Coffee Break featuring short wetland-related presentations; workshops, field trips, and presentations; advising landowners about wetland preservation, restoration, and management; distribution of the book, My Healthy Wetlands (to help landowners care for their wetlands), and an annual wetland science conference. More than 400 people attended and participated in WWA's 2025 Wetland Science Conference in La Crosse, Wisconsin.
Expenses $355,245 · Revenue $232,731
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2. Public Policy Advocacy: In 2024-2025, WWA's policy program work continued to emphasize building the policy and program supports needed to increase the use of wetland restoration to solve problems. Our focus this year was supporting collaborations to help multiple state agencies implement newly enacted policies and programs that enable wetlands conservation. These included administration of a newly issued General Permit for Hydrologic Restoration, a newly enabled Pre-Disaster Flood Resilience Grant Program, and promoting use of cost share dollars to restore wetlands in agricultural landscapes. Our Executive Director continued to serve as Vice Chair of the governor's Wetland Study Council. This council, representing private, agricultural, conservation, and other diverse interests discusses and develops recommendations on statewide wetland issues.
Expenses $300,713 · Revenue $176,814
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Program Development: In 2024-2025 WWA continued working to help Lake Superior Basin communities identify and prioritize areas where restoring wetlands and floodplains could help reduce downstream flood risks and vulnerabilities and prevent road and culvert washouts. This included a NOAA funded collaboration with partners in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota. Other activities included the development and delivery of training sessions on hydrology fundamentals for state agricultural engineers and water regulatory staff, and development of proposal for a collaborative project with Wisconsin Department of Transportation focused on evaluating opportunities to restore wetlands to protect vulnerable state roads. Funding for that project was approved by a private foundation and work will commence in March 2026.
Expenses $180,594 · Revenue $176,662
As filed on the 2024 return.
Officers and directors · 2024
As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
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Tracy Hames
Executive Director
- Total calculated
- $74,545
- From this org
- $70,325
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $4,220
- Hours/week
- 40
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Susan Schumacher
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Jim Ruwaldt
Board member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Nicole Staskowski
Vice Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Gretchen Pfeiffer
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Alison Pena
Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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R Tod Highsmith
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
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2024
- Revenue
- $856,095
- Expenses
- $1,041,348
- Contributions
- $756,191
- Grants paid
- $0
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2023
- Revenue
- $771,730
- Expenses
- $946,082
- Contributions
- $682,653
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2023
- Revenue
- $771,730
- Expenses
- $946,082
- Contributions
- $682,653
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2022
- Revenue
- $973,242
- Expenses
- $959,236
- Contributions
- $889,071
- Grants paid
- $0
The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.
Other returns filed
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $878,330
- Expenses
- $784,772
- Assets (EOY)
- $593,636
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $789,852
- Expenses
- $784,729
- Assets (EOY)
- $527,439
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $881,304
- Expenses
- $701,450
- Assets (EOY)
- $527,998
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $586,718
- Expenses
- $576,781
- Assets (EOY)
- $245,084
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $573,615
- Expenses
- $507,977
- Assets (EOY)
- $228,628
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2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $506,689
- Expenses
- $457,365
- Assets (EOY)
- $170,711
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2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $442,414
- Expenses
- $452,184
- Assets (EOY)
- $127,394
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2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $420,916
- Expenses
- $404,880
- Assets (EOY)
- $139,073
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2012 · 990
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- $384,840
- Assets (EOY)
- $112,474
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2011 · 990
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- $378,040
- Assets (EOY)
- $158,684
Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.
Grants made
No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.
Grants received
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$196,000
2023 WATER ACCESS AND CONSERVATION
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2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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2022 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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2022 GENERAL SUPPORT
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2024 GENERAL SUPPORT
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2023 GENERAL SUPPORT
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$13,786
2024 GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES
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$13,445
2023 GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES
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$13,103
2022 GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
Other IRS files
Auto-Revocation List
Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.
Publication 78
Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.
These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.
What this page reflects
The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.