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WISCONSIN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION INC

EIN 51-0180680 MADISON, WI

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Revenue 2024
$477,478
Expenses 2024
$457,606

As filed

Subsection
06
Classification
2000
Street
PO BOX 258067

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

THE MISSION OF WISCONSIN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION, INC. IS TO ENHANCE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN WISCONSIN THROUGH PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, NETWORKING, AND ADVOCACY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

PROVIDING SERVICES TO MEMBERS TO ADVANCE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC ADVANCEMENT IN WISCONSIN.

  • NETWORKING - WISCONSIN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION, INC'S (WEDA) BIGGEST EDUCATION AND NETWORKING EVENT OF THE YEAR IS ITS GOVERNOR'S CONFERENCE ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT HELD EVERY FEBRUARY. IT IS A THREE-DAY CONFERENCE INCLUDING EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS, EXHIBITS, RECEPTIONS, AND OTHER NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES. WEDA ALSO HOSTS COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT ACT SESSIONS AT VARIOUS LOCATIONS AROUND THE STATE TWICE EACH YEAR AS WELL AS A FALL CONFERENCE.

  • PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT - WEDA, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH WISCONSIN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (WEDC), HOSTS A SERIES OF EDUCATIONAL EVENTS. THE GOALS OF THESE OFFERINGS COMPLEMENT AND SUPPORT WEDC'S GOALS FOR FOSTERING A "BEST-IN-CLASS" ENVIRONMENT FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PRACTITIONERS AND BUSINESS IN THE STATE OF WISCONSIN.

  • PUBLIC AFFAIRS - WEDA ENDORSES AND IS PROACTIVE IN SUPPORTING STUDIES AND CREATING PUBLIC AWARENESS OF ISSUES OF CONCERN TO MEMBERS SUCH AS THE "BE BOLD" WISCONSIN REPORT.LEGISLATIVE ISSUES - WEDA EMPLOYS A LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS DIRECTOR WHO COORDINATES THE ASSOCIATION'S EFFORTS TO MONITOR AND ACT ON BILLS AND ADMINISTRATIVE RULES THAT IMPACT WISCONSIN'S ECONOMY.

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.

  • Mary Perry

    PRESIDENT AND CEO (THRU AUG.)

    Total calculated
    $100,622
    From this org
    $97,899
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,723
    Hours/week
    40
  • Kathryn Berger

    INTERIM PRESIDENT & CEO (THRU JUL.)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Melissa Hunt

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jenny Kuderer-Radcliffe

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Sheldon Johnson

    PAST CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Pam Christenson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Angie Close

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Rebecca Deschane

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Brad Elmer

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Dawn Follendorf

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Coleman Peiffer

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Dean Prestegaard

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Carol Roth

    DIRECTOR (THRU JUL.)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Keri Schreiner

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Dale Shaver

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Rachel Smith

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Charlie Walker

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Lance Walter

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Liz Wendt

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Aaron White

    DIRECTOR (THRU JUL.)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jessica Wildes

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $477,478
    Expenses
    $457,606
    Contributions
    $94,599
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $530,244
    Expenses
    $451,340
    Contributions
    $152,890
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $408,485
    Expenses
    $395,680
    Contributions
    $25,751
    Grants paid
    $9,808

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
    $364,540
    Expenses
    $360,077
    Assets (EOY)
    $176,162
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $415,171
    Expenses
    $382,863
    Assets (EOY)
    $165,683
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $436,271
    Expenses
    $421,631
    Assets (EOY)
    $122,492
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $436,870
    Expenses
    $403,168
    Assets (EOY)
    $117,778
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $395,369
    Expenses
    $424,018
    Assets (EOY)
    $95,663

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.

Grants made

  • UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION

    $9,808

    2022 CAPACITY BUILDING GRANT TRIBAL

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

  • WBD INC

    $100,000

    2024 ENHANCE PROGRAMMING, BROADEN STATEWIDE PRESENCE, AND STRENGTHEN ITS NETWORK. CONTINUE SERVING AS A CONVENER OF STATEWIDE BEST PRACTICES, INNOVATION AND COLLABORATION IN ECONCOMIC DEVELOPMENT.

  • 2022 PROVIDE EMPLOYEE AND CONTRACTOR COSTS, SCHOLARSHIP, WEBSITE UPGRADE, AND EXPLORE AND MATCH NEW PUBLIC GRANTS

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

Not present in the most recent drop.

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.