Wisconsin · Nonprofit
BRIARPATCH YOUTH SERVICES INC
BRIARPATCH YOUTH SERVICES INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,143,236 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC ($1,102,296). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.2M
- Funders on record
- 43
- Grants received
- $4.1M
- Net assets
- $5.8M
What Briarpatch Youth Services Inc does
Mission
Provides services dedicated to improving and strengthening the lives of youth, their families and the community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Intensive supervision program:provides court-involved youth the opportunity to remain in their community instead of being placed outside their home and away from their family. Youth receive counseling and mentoring and their parents also receive support from program staff. Youth receive 20-25 hours of service per month which includes school attendance and curfew monitoring. Over 90% of youth do not commit further law violations while receiving program services.
$565,634 spent18% of program spendingYouth restitution program:this program provides court-involved youth with support and assistance in completing their court-ordered community service hours and restitution payments. Program staff develops and supervises community service opportunities for youth and also helps youth develop a plan for making restitution payments. Over 90% of youth participating in the program successfuly complete their court-ordered obligations.
$441,173 spent14% of program spendingBriarpatch runaway and homeless youth program:briarpatch staff provide runaway and homeless youth and their families with a wide range of assistance including: individual, group, and family counseling; advocacy and support; basic needs assistance; a 24 hour help-line; and temporary shelter for youth.
$1,127,415 spent$104,320 earned by the program36% of program spendingRestorative justice program
$237,868 spent7% of program spendingParent support group
$75,360 spent2% of program spendingYouth job center
$197,460 spent6% of program spendingStreet outreach program
$197,980 spent6% of program spendingYhdp program
$320,179 spent10% of program spendingSamhsa program
$9,204 spent0% of program spending
The 9 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,172,273.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $5.0M to $4.3M (−15%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 78% · 2018 79% · 2019 79% · 2020 85% · 2021 75% · 2022 72% · 2023 72% · 2024 74%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of BRIARPATCH YOUTH SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Jill Pfeiffer
Exec director
Board chair
Mike Nell
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $375k → $775k.
4 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BRIARPATCH YOUTH SERVICES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BRIARPATCH YOUTH SERVICES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
52% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BRIARPATCH YOUTH SERVICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 63% · 2019 70% · 2020 31% · 2021 24% · 2022 41% · 2023 32% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
44% of BRIARPATCH YOUTH SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
72% of BRIARPATCH YOUTH SERVICES INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $320k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BRIARPATCH YOUTH SERVICES INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding BRIARPATCH YOUTH SERVICES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.0M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$4.0M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BRIARPATCH YOUTH SERVICES INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Youth Services LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BRIARPATCH YOUTH SERVICES INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BRIARPATCH YOUTH SERVICES INC?
- BRIARPATCH YOUTH SERVICES INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,143,236 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC ($1,102,296). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRIARPATCH YOUTH SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $4,143,236 in grants to BRIARPATCH YOUTH SERVICES INC, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRIARPATCH YOUTH SERVICES INC?
- UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,102,296 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRIARPATCH YOUTH SERVICES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 43 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing