Wisconsin · Nonprofit
JOURNEY HOUSE INC
JOURNEY HOUSE INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,334,801 to it, the largest being JOSEPH AND VERA ZILBER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($2,776,500). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 70
- Grants received
- $8.3M
- Net assets
- $9.3M
What Journey House Inc does
Mission
Journey house empowers families on milwaukee's near southside to move out of poverty by offering adult education, youth development, workforce readiness, and family engagement.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Youth development: our youth development programs provide academic support in steam (science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics) to help students reach grade-level skills and encourage further education. We also offer gender-specific leadership programs to foster positive life skills, athletic activities to promote physical well-being and character building, and arts programs to enrich participants emotionally and intellectually. Through these programs, we empower low-income youth to enhance their educational and life skills for future success. Additionally, we operate organized athletic leagues that integrate education and life skills, such as the journey house packers football program and journey house felix mantilla little league. We also have basketball and soccer teams that play in citywide leagues.
$1,036,341 spentof which $2,875 as grants$36,029 earned by the program53% of program spendingAdult education: the journey house family learning center empowers individuals and families in milwaukee's near southside by providing language development, adult primary skills/ged/literacy education, and life skills training to help them secure and maintain family-sustaining employment. Our comprehensive programs offer classroom and online instruction in english language learning, citizenship, adult basic education, and ged in both english and spanish, along with personalized case management and a tailored personal education plan.
$303,283 spent$1,890 earned by the program16% of program spendingCapacity building: capacity building assists in sustaining high-quality general operations through administrative leadership support to ensure journey house programs can operate fully, with a special focus on youth development and thrive workforce readiness programs.
$195,471 spent10% of program spendingWorkforce readiness: our thrive career pathway and financial opportunity center supports low-income residents in obtaining fulfilling employment, offering financial coaching, and coordinating with our thrive internship career pathways. Thrive internship career pathways is an intensive initiative with multiple-week training courses designed to prepare low-income youth and adults for the workforce, including career pathway training, sky breath meditation, and internships in fields such as healthcare, construction and design, hospitality, and sports turf & landscaping.after-school program: journey house partners with milwaukee public school longfellow to provide students with a secure, structured, supervised after-school environment. Our programs aim to increase student achievement, offer alternatives to being home alone, provide safe havens from negative influences, and offer youth development programming to help students reach their full potential in academics, arts, and athletics.family engagement: we offer a variety of engaging activities and resources for families, including large-scale autumn and winter celebrations such as the halloween spooktacular, thanksgiving dinner, and…
$411,573 spentof which $153 as grants$44,285 earned by the program21% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,946,668.
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 2018 to 2019, from $9.0M to $11M (+20%).
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 24% · 2018 4% · 2019 7% · 2020 31% · 2021 14% · 2022 19% · 2023 33% · 2024 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of JOURNEY HOUSE 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
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
Michele Bria
CEO
Board chair
Dr Angy K Singh Phd
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $346k → $1.0M.
17 of 70 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: $552k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Journey House Charitable Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money JOURNEY HOUSE INC raised.
From the IRS filings of JOURNEY HOUSE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 70 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
JOURNEY HOUSE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% 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
34% 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 JOURNEY HOUSE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 40% · 2019 49% · 2020 34% · 2021 36% · 2022 39% · 2023 28% — broadly stable.
“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
47% of JOURNEY HOUSE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
86% of JOURNEY HOUSE 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. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
JOURNEY HOUSE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding JOURNEY HOUSE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $36k on record.
- Department of the Treasury$36k
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 JOURNEY HOUSE 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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
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 6 related entities
- 2330 Mineral Street LLC · disregarded
- Scott Street LLC · disregarded
- 2033 W Scott Street LLC · disregarded
- Greenfield Avenue LLC · disregarded
- Clarke Square Apartments LLC · disregarded
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JOURNEY HOUSE 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 JOURNEY HOUSE INC?
- JOURNEY HOUSE INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,334,801 to it, the largest being JOSEPH AND VERA ZILBER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($2,776,500). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JOURNEY HOUSE INC have?
- IRS filings report 70 organizations giving $8,334,801 in grants to JOURNEY HOUSE INC, 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JOURNEY HOUSE INC?
- JOSEPH AND VERA ZILBER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,776,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JOURNEY HOUSE 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 70 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