Wisconsin · Nonprofit
Center for Self Sufficiency Inc
Center for Self Sufficiency Inc (Wisconsin) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,609,050 to it, the largest being EMPLOY MILWAUKEE INC ($2,465,935). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $590k
What Center for Self Sufficiency Inc does
Mission
To provide a foundation for people to actualize their hope and motivation to access a good life. The Center for Self-Sufficiency Inc. CFSS is a Milwaukee-based nonprofit organization. We provide family-strengthening programs to youth and adults to assist them in developing healthy life skills attitudes and behaviors and making choices that will have long-term positive effects on them their families and society.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
The Project FAM Program targets parents incarcerated at the Community Reintegration Center CRC formerly House of Corrections HOC who are returning to Milwaukee County and their minor children.
$145,850 spent17% of program spendingThe CFSS Developing Occupational Opportunities Resources and Supports DOORS project is designed to provide career readiness and job placement opportunities for the city of Milwaukee residents. DOORS will help meet employer demands for a more skilled workforce by providing opportunities for individuals to receive training and learn skills in industry-recognized training programs.
$145,850 spent17% of program spendingEncourage support and assist members with employment basics medical essentials and psychological needs. Pre-release instruction in financial literacy workplace competencies and conflict resolution is provided to help with successful reintegration. Also intensive services are -provided during the post release phase.
$145,850 spent17% of program spendingThe Milwaukee Fatherhood-FIRE program delivers a multi- faceted strategy of services designed to strengthen positive father-child engagement improve healthy relationships including couple and co-parenting and marriages for those who are married and improve economic stability. CSS and Center for Self-Sufficiency Inc. CFSS commit to using grant and leveraged resources to help fathers particularly low-income adult fathers and those between the ages of 18 and 24 residing in Milwaukee County and meeting all ACF eligibility criteria establish or strengthen relationships with their children overcome obstacles and barriers that prohibit them from being the most effective and nurturing parents and improve economic status.
$145,848 spent17% of program spendingThe Center for Self Sufficiency Inc. CFSS RYOC UNLOCKING NETWORKS RUN serves 150 moderate and high-risk men ages 18 and older released from Racine Youth Offender Correctional Facility RYOC into Milwaukee WI MKE. The RUN wrap-around model integrates the National Institute of Corrections principles of effective interventions and incorporates core strategies of Cognitive Based Healthy Relationship Education Behavioral Work Readiness Development Parenting Mentoring & Holistic Case Management. CFSS will use an electronic client case mgmt. system to track individual & aggregate project goals & deliverables.
$145,848 spent17% of program spendingA collaboration of Milwaukee Area reentry agencies and stakeholders led by Employ MKE with the 2-pronged goal of 1. Researching and evaluating the racialized experience of Black Men released from incarceration to Milwaukee. 2. Researching and evaluating the racialized socialization of Milwaukee Area reentry agency members and other stakeholders.
$145,847 spent17% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $875,093.
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 $408k to $627k (+53%).
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 46% · 2018 97% · 2019 78% · 2020 63% · 2021 67% · 2022 52% · 2023 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Center for Self Sufficiency Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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
Dafi Dyer
President CEO
Board chair
Deadra RichellePurifoy
Chairman
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $250k → $467k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 Center for Self Sufficiency Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
Center for Self Sufficiency Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 Center for Self Sufficiency Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 86% · 2021 89% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of Center for Self Sufficiency 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. $101k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Center for Self Sufficiency Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,813 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,813 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2023
Government funding Center for Self Sufficiency Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.3M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.6M
- Department of Justice$1.7M
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 Center for Self Sufficiency 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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Center for Self Sufficiency 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 Center for Self Sufficiency Inc?
- Center for Self Sufficiency Inc (Wisconsin) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,609,050 to it, the largest being EMPLOY MILWAUKEE INC ($2,465,935). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Center for Self Sufficiency Inc have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $2,609,050 in grants to Center for Self Sufficiency Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Center for Self Sufficiency Inc?
- EMPLOY MILWAUKEE INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,465,935 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Center for Self Sufficiency 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 5 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