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UWM FOUNDATION INC

EIN 23-7337744 MILWAUKEE, WI

Largest nonprofits in Wisconsin

Revenue 2023
$48,555,450
Expenses 2023
$29,109,878

Program services were 88.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B430
Classification
1200
Street
1440 E NORTH AVE

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).

Other organizations at this address

3 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

THE MISSION OF THE UWM FOUNDATION, INC. IS TO SUPPORT THE EDUCATIONAL, LITERARY, AND SCIENTIFIC ENDEAVORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MILWAUKEE BY RECEIVING, MANAGING, AND DISTRIBUTING GIFTS TO BENEFIT THE UNIVERSITY'S STUDENTS, FACULTY, PROGRAMS, AND COMMUNITY. IN ADDITION, THE UWM FOUNDATION PROVIDES LEADERSHIP, OVERSIGHT, AND DIRECTION TO ITS AFFILIATED CORPORATIONS, THE UWM REAL ESTATE FOUNDATION, INC. AND THE UWM RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. THESE CORPORATIONS CREATE NEW UNIVERSITY FACILITIES TO SUPPORT STUDENT LIFE, RESEARCH, ACADEMICS AND REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND PROVIDE NEW SOURCES OF REVENUE FROM RESEARCH, COMMERCIALIZATION, AND ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTIVITIES.

  • EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS: SPECIAL PROJECTS INCLUDING SPONSORSHIP OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MILWAUKEE'S PUBLIC RADIO STATION, HONORS PROGRAM, PERFORMING ARTS CONCERT HALL, SCIENCE BAG SERIES, AND INNER CITY NURSING CLINIC.

    Expenses $10,041,828 · Grants $10,041,828

  • Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

    Expenses $7,820,092 · Grants $7,820,092

  • EDUCATION: GENERAL SUPPORT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MILWAUKEE'S ADMINISTRATION, SCHOOLS, COLLEGES, LIBRARY, ETC. FOR THE BENEFIT OF ITS STUDENTS, FACULTY, AND STAFF.

    Expenses $6,285,760 · Grants $6,285,760

  • EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS: RESEARCH PROJECTS CONDUCTED BY FACULTY AND RESEARCHERS IN VARIOUS SCHOOLS AT THE UNIVERISTY OF WISCONSIN-MILWAUKEE INCLUDING HEALTH SCIENCES, ARCHITECTURE, ENGINEERING, LETTERS & SCIENCES, NURSING, AND GRADUATE SCHOOL. EDUCATION: COMMUNITY SERVICE PROGRAMS INCLUDING SEMINARS, LECTURES, AND PERFORMANCES SPONSORED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MILWAUKEE FOR THE ENRICHMENT OF THE METRO-MILWAUKEE COMMUNITY.

    Expenses $1,621,072 · Grants $1,097,322

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • James Blinka

    DIRECTOR/PROFESSOR

    Total calculated
    $81,355
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $81,355
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 35 related
  • Matthew Rinka

    CHAIR (BEGAN 12/2023)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • John Kissinger

    VICE CHAIR (BEGAN 12/2023)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Christina Fiasca

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Lisa J Van Landeghem

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Michelle Putz

    EX-OFFICIO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Joah Tucker

    EX-OFFICIO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Michael Aldana

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jason Allen

    DIRECTOR (BEGAN 12/2023)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • David Barnett

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Brian Bear MD

    DIRECTOR (THRU 11/2023)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Robert Bukowski

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ellen Censky

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Stephanie Chedid

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Lori Craig

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Andrew Deguire

    DIRECTOR (THRU 12/2023)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Donna Drosner

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Michael Fenlon

    DIRECTOR (BEGAN 12/2023)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jeffrey Hembrok

    DIRECTOR (BEGAN 12/2023)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jacqueline Herd-Barber

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Karen Hung

    DIRECTOR (BEGAN 12/2023)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Roger Kamau

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kimberly Kane

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Margaret Kelsey

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Rebekah Kowalski

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

The first 25 listed. 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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $48,555,450
    Expenses
    $29,109,878
    Contributions
    $39,915,988
    Grants paid
    $25,245,002
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $26,737,937
    Expenses
    $26,120,842
    Contributions
    $23,874,266
    Grants paid
    $22,513,086

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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $39,411,419
    Expenses
    $23,629,593
    Assets (EOY)
    $226,454,661
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $23,105,220
    Expenses
    $20,862,926
    Assets (EOY)
    $248,807,614
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $32,469,764
    Expenses
    $21,011,711
    Assets (EOY)
    $210,747,306
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $26,250,858
    Expenses
    $21,585,573
    Assets (EOY)
    $195,573,928
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $34,035,563
    Expenses
    $17,115,725
    Assets (EOY)
    $186,403,380
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $25,253,161
    Expenses
    $17,955,677
    Assets (EOY)
    $162,408,852
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $28,599,801
    Expenses
    $16,697,527
    Assets (EOY)
    $137,404,952
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $17,606,777
    Expenses
    $15,612,959
    Assets (EOY)
    $127,260,793
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $21,360,266
    Expenses
    $12,750,877
    Assets (EOY)
    $124,716,049
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $11,947,132
    Assets (EOY)
    $113,867,222

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

  • UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MILWAUKEE

    $25,245,002

    2023 TEACHING AND DEPARTMENTAL PROGRAMS, COMMUNITY SERVICE, RESEARCH AND SPECIAL PROJECTS

  • UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MILWAUKEE

    $22,513,086

    2022 TEACHING AND DEPARTMENTAL PROGRAMS, COMMUNITY SERVICE, RESEARCH AND SPECIAL PROJECTS

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2023 return

Declared as related by

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 13 October 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 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.