Wisconsin · Nonprofit
HEADWATERS INC
HEADWATERS INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $145,451 to it, the largest being GEORGE VON HOFFMANN FOUNDATION INC ($49,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $145k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Headwaters Inc does
Mission
HEADWATERS, INC. is a non-profit community-based services agency with over 50 years of experience providing services for people with disabilities throughout northern Wisconsin. We support people to have a meaningful life by working and contributing to their communities. Our services include Community Based Day Services, Prevocational Training, Community Employment Services, Residential Community Supported Living, Educational Supports, and Transition Services. Catholic Charities Bureau Affiliates are organized to maintain, operate and conduct; directly or indirectly; as well as to assist and coordinate activities and Social Services in accordance with the charitable Works and traditions of the Roman Catholic Church. Works are carried out in accordance with Catholic Social teachings.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Headwaters, Inc.'s Adult Programs and Transportation include our Day/Work Services programming in our Rhinelander location. Community Based Day Services support people in a wide range of meaningful opportunities to address individual needs, goals, and interests. Community Based Day Services are designed to maximize a person's ability to manage everyday life activities in their community. Through this program, individuals grow to become more active members of their communities and gain skills to achieve their fullest potential. Work Services provides training in soft skills and other work skills that lead to successful employment in our work area and in the community. Work Services are designed to maximize a person's ability to gain skills for productivity. Work services provide a variety of jobs in our production area that help individuals develop necessary skills for employment. All participants in the Work Services program participated in WIOA Career Counseling (Workforce Innovation Opportunity Act) this counseling provides career services for adults and dislocated workers.
$793,746 spent$975,963 earned by the program50% of program spendingResidential/Supported Living Services are designed to maximize a person's ability to manage everyday life skills in their homes and within their communities. People seek out our services for a wide variety of reasons. Through this program, individuals grow to have more meaningful lives outside of their employment and day support. These services can include interpersonal skills, safety skills, travel training, personal hygiene and health skills, daily living skills coaching, and community connections. Headwaters' supports range from 24/7 assistance, daily rates, to weekly drop in services. Our Residential Services include housing counseling services to assist participants in finding affordable long-term housing.
$431,890 spent$494,937 earned by the program27% of program spendingHeadwaters, Inc.'s Enterprise programs include our summer lawncare services (Lawn care services for the Rest Area Maintenance Program, the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, and the Department of Natural Resources), enclaves the production area and Community Employment. With the summer maintenance program participants acquire new skills and cleaning techniques at different rest areas. The lawn care service contracts for 4 community apartment complexes managed by Catholic Charities. Individuals cleaned weekly at the National Guard Armory and worked on cleaning and building/lawn maintenance at 6 waysides in Forest, Vilas, and Oneida counties. In addition, Headwaters, Inc. work service program also maintained 2 boat landings, 6 Wisconsin Valley Improvement sites in Lincoln County, and maintains lawncare at Wisconsin Department of Transportation and their sign shop. In the winter months participants work on our contract with the UW agricultural department, cleaning 44,000 green pots and 3,600 trays in preparation for planting potatoes in the spring. The Community Employment department supports individuals in seeking and maintaining employment through job development and…
$358,793 spent$391,146 earned by the program23% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,584,429.
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 2020 to 2021, from $891k to $1.3M (+48%).
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 77% · 2018 82% · 2019 86% · 2020 59% · 2021 61% · 2022 89% · 2023 88% · 2024 90% · 2025 87%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of HEADWATERS 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. 4 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 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $11k → $18k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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: $743k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Headwaters Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money HEADWATERS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of HEADWATERS 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
HEADWATERS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
66% 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 HEADWATERS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 59% · 2019 67% · 2020 52% · 2021 62% · 2022 39% · 2023 50% — 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.
Where its funders are
66% of HEADWATERS 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. $16 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
HEADWATERS INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like HEADWATERS 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
61%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Catholic Charities Bureau Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HEADWATERS INC?
- HEADWATERS INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $145,451 to it, the largest being GEORGE VON HOFFMANN FOUNDATION INC ($49,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HEADWATERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $145,451 in grants to HEADWATERS INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HEADWATERS INC?
- GEORGE VON HOFFMANN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $49,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HEADWATERS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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