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WISCONSIN PUBLIC EDUCATION ACTION FUND INC

EIN 87-3954281 MADISON, WI

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Revenue 2024
$254,474
Expenses 2024
$132,739

Program services were 35.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
Street
1502 W BROADWAY 102

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

TO CHAMPION PUBLIC EDUCATION THROUGH NON-PARTISAN SUPPORT FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL RESOURCES, LEGISLATIVE MEASURES THAT BENEFIT ALL PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS, REFERENDA THAT SERVE COMMUNITIES, AND THE ELECTION OF PUBLIC EDUCATION ADVOCATES AT ALL LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT.

  • WISCONSIN'S PUBLIC EDUCATION DEFENSE FUND PROTECTS WISCONSIN PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS AGAINST ATTACKS ON THE FREEDOM TO TEACH AND LEARN IN SAFE, WELCOMING, JOYFUL, INCLUSIVE ENVIRONMENTS THAT ALLOW ALL STUDENTS TO THRIVE. BUILDING A STRONG PUBLIC EDUCATION DEFENSE FUND IS KEY TO FIGHTING BACK AGAINST INCREASINGLY DANGEROUS POLITICAL AGENDAS THAT THREATEN OUR STUDENTS' RIGHT TO SHINE AND SUCCEED IN EXCELLENT PUBLIC SCHOOLS.WISCONSIN'S PUBLIC EDUCATION DEFENSE FUND SUPPORTS NONPARTISAN, NONPROFIT WORK TO: SUPPORT ALL STUDENTS AND PROTECT THEM FROM HATEFUL ATTACKS; STOP HARMFUL AND DIVISIVE PRIVATE VOUCHER PROGRAMS; FIGHT BACK AGAINST UNFAIR FUNDING BY HOLDING THE STATE ACCOUNTABLE FOR MEETING ITS CONSTITUTIONAL OBLIGATION TO OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS; PROTECT PUBLIC EDUCATORS' FREEDOM TO TEACH THE TRUTH ABOUT OUR COMPLICATED HISTORY IN A SUPPORTIVE ENVIRONMENT, AND SUPPORT SCHOOL BOARDS AND DISTRICTS AGAINST ATTACKS ON EQUITY AND RACIAL JUSTICE INITIATIVES AND POLICIES THAT PROTECT LGBTQ+ STUDENTS; RECRUIT, ELECT AND SUPPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION CHAMPIONS; EDUCATE VOTERS ON ALL BALLOT QUESTIONS THAT IMPACT OUR STUDENTS AND THEIR PUBLIC SCHOOLS; ORGANIZE COMMUNITIES TO TAKE ACTION AT THE STATE AND LOCAL LEVELS AND FUND GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT EFFORTS.

    Expenses $46,439 · Grants $6,000

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Julie Underwood

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • Jill Gaskell

    SECRETARY/TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • Tom Beebe

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Heather Dubois Bourenane

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $138,037
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $114,596
    Other
    $23,441
    Hours/week
    20 + 20 related

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
    $254,474
    Expenses
    $132,739
    Contributions
    $254,474
    Grants paid
    $6,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $129,832
    Expenses
    $132,363
    Contributions
    $129,832
    Grants paid
    $21,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $185,239
    Expenses
    $234,354
    Contributions
    $185,239
    Grants paid
    $26,000

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
    $250,000
    Expenses
    $160,067
    Assets (EOY)
    $113,520

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

  • WISCONSIN ALLIANCE FOR EXCELLENT SCHOOLS INC

    $21,000

    2023 GENERAL PURPOSES

  • FOX CITIES ADVOCATES FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION

    $6,000

    2024 SUPPORT FOR 501(C)(4) ALLOWABLE ACTIVITY - SOCIAL MEDIA, DIGITAL ADS, PRINT ADS AND SPECIAL EDUCATION

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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 2024 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

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 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.