Michigan · Nonprofit
GESHER HUMAN SERVICES
GESHER HUMAN SERVICES (Michigan) receives grants from 76 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,449,186 to it, the largest being SOURCEAMERICA ($804,750). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $32M
- Funders on record
- 76
- Grants received
- $3.4M
- Net assets
- $30M
What Gesher Human Services does
Mission
Gesher Human Services is a bridge to hope and opportunity for people at work, at home, and in the community. Gesher's workforce development, behavioral health, and inclusion programming serves all metro detroiters while meeting the needs of the jewish community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Residential services were previously delivered under a wholly owned subsidiary, kadima. In 2024 these services were moved to gesher and kadima was dissolved. These services are explained under program area iii - at home.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Gesher offers a comprehensive range of workforce development programs tailored to diverse community needs. Whether entering or re-entering the job market, facing age-related challenges, or dealing with disabilities, gesher provides targeted support.1. Business and career services:personalized career coaching, technical skills training, networking, and job placement services for individuals at various career stages.2. Recharge! Program: group counseling for individuals aged 50+, addressing their unique concerns, providing assessments, goal-setting, and overcoming age-related barriers.3. Women to work program:supporting women in entering or re-entering the workforce, offering job search strategies, emotional support, and microsoft office computer training through the springboard to success program.4. Ticket to work program:in partnership with the social security administration, this voluntary program aids individuals receiving ssdi and/or ssi in achieving financial independence.5. New experiences internship program:provides opportunities for job seekers 18 and over with long-term unemployment to build skills through paid internships.6. Jewish occupational internship (join)…
$20,493,770 spentof which $2,225,886 as grants$14,074,400 earned by the program75% of program spendingGesher's comprehensive spectrum of community services caters to individuals of all ages and abilities, promoting dignity, engagement, and support in various aspects of life.1. Dorothy and peter brown jewish community adult day program:a non-sectarian program in partnership with jewish senior life, offering support for individuals with dementia and their families. Features engaging programming, socialization, therapeutic activities, and flexible hours.2. Encore programming for active adults (55+):tailored programs designed to deeply engage older adults with their community, providing mental stimulation, enjoyment, and opportunities for connection.3. Memory club:specifically for seniors with memory concerns, providing socialization, memory-boosting tips, physical exercise, field trips, and support groups.4. Choices program:enriching activities for individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities, utilizing a person-centered planning model. Participants determine their own activities, both in-person and through virtual programs.5. Creative expressions program:provides education, enrichment, and professional arts opportunities for gesher participants, collaborating with…
$3,634,219 spent$1,434,072 earned by the program13% of program spendingFrom 24-hour care to independent living with support, gesher provides a full continuum of residential services to ensure all residents get the exact level of housing and support they need to live a fulfilling life. This service continuum includes access to transportation for medical and psychiatric appointments, grocery shopping, psychosocial rehabilitative therapy, social outings, individual and group clinical services, education, vocational support, community volunteer opportunities, and social integration.
$3,030,878 spent$2,050,478 earned by the program11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $27,158,867.
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 2021 to 2022, from $24M to $31M (+33%).
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 7% · 2018 8% · 2019 8% · 2020 15% · 2021 30% · 2022 23% · 2023 30% · 2024 29% · 2025 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
38% of GESHER HUMAN SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Paul Blatt
President and CEO
Board chair
Dani Gillman
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 36 funders, grant income rose $357k → $593k.
4 of 76 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $48M from 10 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Jewish Federation of Detroit). These are real filings, and they are not money GESHER HUMAN SERVICES raised.
From the IRS filings of GESHER HUMAN SERVICES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 76 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
GESHER HUMAN SERVICES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
53% 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 GESHER HUMAN SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 77% · 2019 73% · 2020 28% · 2021 30% · 2022 14% · 2023 17% — 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
33% of GESHER HUMAN SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
59% of GESHER HUMAN SERVICES's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $488k 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
GESHER HUMAN SERVICES runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 290 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 290 employment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding GESHER HUMAN SERVICES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30.5M on record.
- Department of Defense$24.4M
- General Services Administration$4.8M
- Department of Transportation$1000k
- Department of Health and Human Services$300k
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 GESHER HUMAN 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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% 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 3 related entities
- Hr Solutions Group LLC · disregarded
- Ecycle Opportunities LLC · disregarded
- Kadima Nonprofit Housing Corporation · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GESHER HUMAN 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 GESHER HUMAN SERVICES?
- GESHER HUMAN SERVICES (Michigan) receives grants from 76 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,449,186 to it, the largest being SOURCEAMERICA ($804,750). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GESHER HUMAN SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 76 organizations giving $3,449,186 in grants to GESHER HUMAN SERVICES, 45 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GESHER HUMAN SERVICES?
- SOURCEAMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $804,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GESHER HUMAN SERVICES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 76 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