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FAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN AND NORTHERN ILLINOIS INC
FAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN AND NORTHERN ILLINOIS INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,012,154 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY BLACKHAWK REGION INC ($934,625). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN AND NORTHERN ILLINOIS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,253 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,253 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Wisconsin Community Action Program Association Incorporatedshared funders
- Women and Girls Fund of Waukesha County Incportfolio match
- United Way of Washington County Incportfolio match
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.
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 54% · 2018 60% · 2019 68% · 2020 77% · 2021 74% · 2022 78% · 2023 88% · 2024 78%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of FAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN AND NORTHERN ILLINOIS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $387k → $306k.
4 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 FAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN AND NORTHERN ILLINOIS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 18 of 19 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
FAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN AND NORTHERN ILLINOIS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% 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
90% 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 FAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN AND NORTHERN ILLINOIS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 56% · 2019 59% · 2020 38% · 2021 45% · 2022 38% · 2023 60% — 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.
How long its funders stay
69% of FAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN AND NORTHERN ILLINOIS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
88% of FAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN AND NORTHERN ILLINOIS 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. $209k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 19 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Wisconsin Community Action Program Association Incorporatedshared fundersWI · backs 14 organizations that share your funders
- Women and Girls Fund of Waukesha County Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Washington County Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Burmester Charitable Trust Xxxxx1007portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Attic Angel Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Oshkosh Area United Way Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Froedtert West Bend Hospital Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Illinois Association of Court Appointed Special Advocatesshared fundersIL · backs 12 organizations that share your funders
- Janesville Foundation Incshared fundersWI · backs 15 organizations that share your funders
- Colony Brands Foundation Incshared fundersWI · backs 17 organizations that share your funders
- Kennedy Family Foundation Incshared fundersWI · backs 13 organizations that share your funders
- George K Tallman Trust Xxxxx0004shared fundersIL · backs 7 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding FAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN AND NORTHERN ILLINOIS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $700k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$700k
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 FAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN AND NORTHERN ILLINOIS INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN AND NORTHERN ILLINOIS 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN AND NORTHERN ILLINOIS INC?
- FAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN AND NORTHERN ILLINOIS INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,012,154 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY BLACKHAWK REGION INC ($934,625). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN AND NORTHERN ILLINOIS INC have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $3,012,154 in grants to FAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN AND NORTHERN ILLINOIS INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN AND NORTHERN ILLINOIS INC?
- UNITED WAY BLACKHAWK REGION INC is the largest funder on record, with $934,625 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN AND NORTHERN ILLINOIS 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.
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 19funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing