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America's School Trust Library
Architectural plan view of the Counting House — a banking-hall interior with a teller counter, ledger desks behind it, and a small vault recess at the rear. Hand-drafted in oxidized navy ink on parchment.

Wisconsin financial profile

1-Section Cohort (LAST) (cohort 3) · State Land Board (ex officio)

Substrate v1.3 · Last reviewed 2026-05-01 · Read the state dossier

Permanent fund corpus

Awaiting State Disclosure

The substrate doesn't yet have a verified corpus value for Wisconsin. This is a known gap in the editorial workstream (B-025 hand-curation pass), not an indication that no fund exists.

Most recent distribution

Awaiting State Disclosure

Federal grant acreage

982,329 acres Verified

Transparency status

Disclosure unknown

The state has a federal trust but neither corpus nor recent distribution is in the substrate yet. Awaiting state disclosure or future substrate work.

Governance form

Classification: State Land Board (ex officio)

Board of Commissioners of Public Lands — ex-officio: Secretary of State, State Treasurer, Attorney General (per Wisconsin Constitution Article X § 7). One of the country's cleanest constitutionally-defined ex-officio fiduciary boards.

Green vertical bar chart titled 'Wisconsin Annual Distribution to Public School Libraries in Millions' showing growth from approximately $27M in 2000 to $70M in 2025, with a steep rise after 2020.
Annual Wisconsin Common School Fund distributions to public school libraries, 2000-2025 (millions of dollars). The post-2020 acceleration reflects 2015 Wis. Act 60's prudent-investor diversification authority working through to library distributions; FY 2025 reached $70 million. Source: Advocates for School Trust Lands , Wisconsin — Advocates for School Trust Lands (Tonia Day, June 2024). Reproduced for the library by permission.