Wisconsin · Nonprofit
FAMILIES FIRST OF MONROE COUNTY INC
FAMILIES FIRST OF MONROE COUNTY INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $455,720 to it, the largest being GREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY INC ($299,953). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $128k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $456k
- Net assets
- $40k
What Families First of Monroe County Inc does
Mission
As an active member of the monroe county community, families first supports and assists residents through their financial and life challenges with respectful and empowering services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Safe and stable housing programming provides housing stabilization services to households facing imminent loss of primary nighttime residents. These households are classified as at risk of homelessness. Programming incorporates case management, resource/ referral, housing stability planning and habitability inspections and tennant landlord mediation. Direct financial assistance is provided to clients in areas of rental assistance (first month's rent, rental arrears to remedy eviction and security deposit)
$80,596 spent61% of program spendingCase/ care management programming provides budget consultation, resource referral, basic needs utility, housing stabilization and employment support to residents of monroe county. Clients are provided services delivered by families first case managers intended to address immediate need causing instability in one or more basic areas. Direct financial assistance can be provided to households who require financial support to stabilize an emergent need.
$35,732 spent27% of program spendingFamilies first also provides crisis financial assistance for rent, security deposit, car repairs, etc. Along with the provision of items to those in need, including clothing vouchers, blankets, infant supplies and winter wear.
$15,582 spent12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $131,910.
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 2024 to 2025, from $106k to $40k (−62%).
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 31% · 2018 30% · 2019 34% · 2020 29% · 2021 49% · 2022 47% · 2023 35% · 2024 27% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
101% of FAMILIES FIRST OF MONROE COUNTY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $43k → $83k.
2 of 14 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 FAMILIES FIRST OF MONROE COUNTY 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
FAMILIES FIRST OF MONROE COUNTY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
75% 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 FAMILIES FIRST OF MONROE COUNTY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 94% · 2019 94% · 2020 89% · 2021 61% · 2022 66% · 2023 36% — 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
57% of FAMILIES FIRST OF MONROE COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
84% of FAMILIES FIRST OF MONROE COUNTY 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. $18k 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
FAMILIES FIRST OF MONROE COUNTY INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 9 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% 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 FAMILIES FIRST OF MONROE COUNTY 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 FAMILIES FIRST OF MONROE COUNTY INC?
- FAMILIES FIRST OF MONROE COUNTY INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $455,720 to it, the largest being GREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY INC ($299,953). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FAMILIES FIRST OF MONROE COUNTY INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $455,720 in grants to FAMILIES FIRST OF MONROE COUNTY INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAMILIES FIRST OF MONROE COUNTY INC?
- GREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY INC is the largest funder on record, with $299,953 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAMILIES FIRST OF MONROE COUNTY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 14 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