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WISDOM INC

EIN 39-1985101 MILWAUKEE, WI

Revenue 2024
$4,225,637
Expenses 2024
$3,817,741

Program services were 73.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T70
Classification
1000
Street
2821 VEL PHILLIPS AVE SUITE 217

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).

Group exemption

The central organization of an IRS group exemption (group number 5251), covering 7 subordinate organizations. matched by us

The IRS lists each organization's group exemption number; we match a subordinate to its central organization by that number and the affiliation code the IRS assigns.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

WISDOM WORKS WITH CONGREGATION-BASED COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS TO CREATE UNDERSTANDING AND BUILD RELATIONSHIPS ACROSS BOUNDARIES, TO TRAIN LEADERS, AND TO ORGANIZE PEOPLE TO ADVOCATE FOR SOCIAL CHANGE THAT IS IN ACCORD WITH THEIR VALUES.

  • WISDOM AND ITS AFFILIATE ORGANIZATIONS RETOOLED QUICKLY IN RESPONSE TO THE COVID 19 PANDEMIC. INTENTIONAL VOTER ENGAGEMENT CAMPAIGN PROJECTS AROUND THE STATE CHANGED THE GET OUT THE VOTE OUTREACH TO VIRTUAL FORMATS AND PHONEBANK PROJECTS. LEADERSHIP TRAINING WORKSHOPS ALSO WENT VIRTUAL, INCLUDING THE SIGNATURE FIVEWEEK LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE OF WHICH THERE WERE FIVE SEPARATE SESSIONS. THIS ALLOWED FOR VERY DIVERSE PARTICIPATION AS SESSIONS WERE OPEN TO PEOPLE AROUND THE STATE. WE INITIATED THE WISDOM SCHOOL OF DEMOCRACY, A SERIES OF TUESDAY NIGHT SESSIONS FOR VOTER EDUCATION, AS WELL AS A SERIES OF SATURDAY MORNING WORKSHOPS FOCUSING ON VARIOUS WISDOM ISSUE CAMPAIGNS. WE CONTINUED TO HOLD BOARD, CORE TEAM AND TASK FORCE MEETINGS, BY ZOOM. WISDOM LEADERS CONTINUED TO LEAD PUBLIC ACTIONS MASKED AND DISTANCED FOR EXAMPLE AGAINST RACISM IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN BURLINGTON, AROUND THE STATE FOR RACIAL EQUITY, AND AT THE GOVERNOR'S MANSION AND 9 WISCONSIN PRISONS CALLING FOR PROTECTION FOR THOSE IN PRISON AGAINST COVID.

    Expenses $2,804,809 · Grants $379,606 · Revenue $2,001,212

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.

  • REV MARIAN BOYLE-ROHLOFF

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SUE SPICER

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RACHAEL KINCAID

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TALIB AKBAR

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • REV DR RICHARD SHAW

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MONICA CUMMINS

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BERNIE GONZALEZ

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BETTY GROENEWOLD

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOHN WAGNER

    FINANCIAL SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GARY CREVIER

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • STEVE WARNER

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SAUNDRA BROWN

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BRUCE CHOPP

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • IVY SUMMERS

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • WALTER HERMAN

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MIKE KOLASINSKI

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PASTOR JEN BARNET

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAVID LINERS

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $90,669
    From this org
    $87,042
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,627
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $4,225,637
    Expenses
    $3,817,741
    Contributions
    $2,221,861
    Grants paid
    $379,606
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,506,763
    Expenses
    $3,018,254
    Contributions
    $1,103,970
    Grants paid
    $176,575
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,159,614
    Expenses
    $2,871,939
    Contributions
    $1,580,485
    Grants paid
    $111,523

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
    $1,733,515
    Expenses
    $2,194,921
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,123,641

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,552,452
    Expenses
    $2,411,033
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,578,446

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,527,682
    Expenses
    $1,460,592
    Assets (EOY)
    $337,088

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,500,209
    Expenses
    $1,391,367
    Assets (EOY)
    $271,750

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,253,993
    Expenses
    $1,298,283
    Assets (EOY)
    $137,268

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,352,030
    Expenses
    $1,418,243
    Assets (EOY)
    $176,973

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,289,939
    Expenses
    $1,221,264
    Assets (EOY)
    $219,739

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

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

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 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

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility GROUP.

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.