Minnesota · Nonprofit
FamilyWise Services
FamilyWise Services (Minnesota) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,968,913 to it, the largest being GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ($1,389,500). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.1M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $5.0M
- Net assets
- $3.2M
What FamilyWise Services does
Mission
Strengthening families by promoting the safety, stability and wellbeing of children.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
High-Fidelity Youth Wraparound: As the only credentialed provider of High-Fidelity Wraparound in the Twin Cities, we use evidence-based elements of family voice-and-choice to "wrap" supports around families. We encourage families to draw support and mentorship from people with shared lived experience. In 2024, 251 participants across 79 families participated.
$870,765 spent24% of program spendingParent Support:In cases of family separation or family violence, we offer supervised visitation between non-custodial parents and their children in a safe environment. 2,140 supervised visits and 98 safe exchanges were provided in 2024.
$744,945 spent21% of program spendingACES NEAR & Tribal ACES NEAR Communities: Using the National Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Interface curriculum and sharing neurobiology, epigenetics, ACEs, and resilience (NEAR) research, we build the capacity of community members to raise awareness about the effects of trauma and the promise of prevention to foster healing in their communities. Tribal NEAR contextualizes trauma and its relationship to individual and community health in tribal communities. 51 presenters were trained, 61 trainings were held, and 2,093 individuals attended in 2024.
$574,493 spent16% of program spendingSupervised Parenting: In cases of family separation or family violence, we offer supervised visitation between non-custodial parents and their children in a safe environment. 2,140 supervised visits and 98 safe exchanges were provided in 2024.
$482,238 spent13% of program spendingBright Beginnings: Parenting and life-skills training and mentorship for young parents ages 12-24, many of whom are involved in the justice system. 51 young-parent families participated in 2024.
$242,508 spent7% of program spendingFirst Step Early Childhood Education:First Step Early Childhood Development Center offers parents a highly accredited early childhood program. 40 children were served in 2024.
$498,299 spent14% of program spendingAwareness:FamilyWise is the home of Prevent Child Abuse Minnesota. We publish the Family Wellbeing Index, promote awareness through a radiothon and provide technical assistance to communities around raising awareness of child abuse.
$174,278 spentof which $81,665 as grants5% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,587,526.
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 2019 to 2020, from $2.3M to $2.9M (+25%).
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 57% · 2018 49% · 2019 16% · 2020 31% · 2021 35% · 2022 35% · 2023 24% · 2024 77%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of FamilyWise Services’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Ann Gaasch
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $525k → $753k.
6 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 FamilyWise Services’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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
FamilyWise Services has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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
60% 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 FamilyWise Services.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 51% · 2019 45% · 2020 30% · 2021 23% · 2022 16% · 2023 24% — 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
52% of FamilyWise Services's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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
97% of FamilyWise Services's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $244k 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
FamilyWise Services is better cushioned than half of the 8,126 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,126 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding FamilyWise Services receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $416k on record — $385k federal, $31k state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$385k
- OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICE$31k
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 FamilyWise Services
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% 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 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FamilyWise Services: 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 FamilyWise Services?
- FamilyWise Services (Minnesota) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,968,913 to it, the largest being GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ($1,389,500). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FamilyWise Services have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $4,968,913 in grants to FamilyWise Services, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FamilyWise Services?
- GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY is the largest funder on record, with $1,389,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FamilyWise Services find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 36 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing