SHAWANO COUNTY ECONOMIC PROGRESS INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

S30

Classification

1000

Street

1263 S MAIN ST

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Mission and programs · 2025

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

  Expenses $87,864

• Housing * A recent study by Fannie Mae shows increased demand for rural housing within commuting distance to urban areas. * Housing will continue to be a priority and there is still plenty of opportunities for further development of both multi and single family housing. * In the Village of Bonduel, Sunrise Court has completed five homes, and the final two homes are substantially finished. * The first 8 plex in Bonduel is enclosed and should be accepting residents in the first quarter of 2026. * The second 8 plex in Bonduel is enclosed and should be accepting residents in the first quarter of 2026. * The Village of Bonduel and Sunrise Court had a groundbreaking on 11 22 2025 for the new lots. This is the first significant single family housing development in the village in nearly two decades. * The Village of Bonduel broke ground on the first of a three phase of Bear Crossing Apartments. * The Village of Bonduel has a developer agreement with Landmark development to construct two eightplexes near the village's industrial park. * The Shawano County portion of Marion is working with SCS to develop some housing in their community. We have initiated meeting with SCS to help master plan the corridor for supportive commercial development. * Assisted the City of Shawano with rewriting housing grants and loan documentation for the Main Street Village residential redevelopment on Main Street. * Met a developer with the city looking to build smaller foot print affordable single family homes in the city. * The City of Shawano is working on two potential higher end apartment projects that will bring much needed zero entry maintenance free living to the community. * The Shawano 60 Project on County B is significantly complete and should be leased by Christmas. * Working with a Shawano property owner wanting to redevelop some vacant properties into multi family. * Groundbreaking is scheduled for July 22 at 10am for the SCS multifamily project in Wittenberg. * The Village of Wittenberg rezoned a property located on Sue Allen Drive to develop single family homes. * The Village of Pulaski (within Shawano County) has approved a new multifamily development to include four twelveplexs right off highway 160. * Housing will continue to be a priority and there is still plenty of opportunities for further development of both multi and single family housing.

  Expenses $47,446

• Broadband Expansion * Attended Town meetings to explain the BEAD program and the town endorsement process. * Still working through all the recent changes that the PSC needs to deal with and hope to have some resolution in July. * USDA has opened another grant round for fiber to the home and we are working with Cirrinity to determine if there might be an opportunity for the county. * Still tracking the changes to BEAD and waiting for the final grant awards to be announced. The funds, more than $1 billion according to the Governor's release, come through the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) which approved Wisconsin's final Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) Program proposal. As approved, the awards will provide funding to service all BEAD eligible locations throughout Wisconsin with more than $397 million in matching funds provided by the recipients. Additionally, funding will support high speed fiber internet services at Community Anchor Institutions like libraries, schools, and local government and educational facilities. The technologies will be split: 76 percent fiber, 10 percent fixed wireless, and 14 percent satellite.

  Expenses $21,087

• Other Activities * A couple of fun notes connected New North and the NFL to the Shawano Barn Quilt Project and the draft has commissioned two barn quilts for the event. * Also NFL draft related assisted in finding accommodation for drivers on Thursday of the draft. * Attended Newcap, New North, WEDA, USDA, Wisconsin Rural Partners and SBA meetings webinars. * Attended WEDA legislative day and discussed potential changes to the TID law with our local elected officials. * Attended Wisconsin Rural Partners, New North, ThedaCare and WEDA monthly meetings. * We are hosting our next Workforce Event Creative Staffing Options on April 9th, 2026. * Attended several meetings with the Office of the Secretary of Defense's Submarine Workforce and Industrial Base working group that Deloitte is leading. * Attended a WEDC workshop on site selection. * Attended the Governor's Conference on Economic Development and was part of a panel discussion on TIF in Wisconsin. * Continued RDA work is started or in process for Bonduel, Marion and Wittenberg. Also the three communities are working on redevelopment plans and establishing an active RDA. * Presented a webinar with Bonduel and WEDC on how to stimulate housing in rural Wisconsin. It was attended by over 80 participants. * RDA work is started or in process for Bonduel, Marion and Wittenberg. * The Creative Staffing Options Event was very well received with our business partners finding additional partners for staffing resources. * Will be part of a panel discussion at the WEDA Governor's Conference on Economic Development the first week in February. * With the Village of Bonduel, hosted acting Secretary of WEDC, Sam Rikkers as he toured and discussed the impacts of the Thrive Rural Wisconsin program that Bonduel is participating in.

  Expenses $19,330

As filed on the 2025 return. 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 · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

• Paul Kersten

  SCEPI Board President

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  2

• James Meyer

  SCEPI Board Secretary Treasurer

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• Joe Miller

  SCEPI Vice President

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• Nichole Zuehl

  SCEPI Executive Committee Member

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• Eddie Sheppard

  SCEPI Executive Committee Member

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• Bruce Milavitz

  SCEPI Executive Committee Member

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• Joe Dawidziak

  SCEPI Board Member

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• Heather Pahl

  SCEPI Board Member

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• Regan Mongold

  SCEPI Board Member

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• Eric Voight

  SCEPI Board Member

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• Peter Thillman

  Chief Economic Development Officer

  Total calculated

  $123,274

  Compensation

  $123,274

  Benefit plans

  $0

  Expense account

  $0

  Hours/week

  45

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

• 2025

  Revenue

  $174,096

  Expenses

  $186,943

  Contributions

  $171,000

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2024

  Revenue

  $170,938

  Expenses

  $182,754

  Contributions

  $168,000

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $171,206

  Expenses

  $179,839

  Contributions

  $165,000

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $165,355

  Expenses

  $162,837

  Contributions

  $165,000

  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

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $202,632

  Expenses

  $176,325

  Assets (EOY)

  $167,074

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

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

• WISCONSIN CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS INC

  $25,000

  2024 · PUBLIC HEALTH

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