Wisconsin · Nonprofit
JOURNEY HOUSE INC
JOURNEY HOUSE INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,055,801 to it, the largest being Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc ($2,776,500). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
JOURNEY HOUSE INC holds deeper cash reserves 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.
- R a Stevens Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Weiss Family Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Alvin a Marion Birnschein Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio 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 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
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 67 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 67 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 34% 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
35% 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
48% 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
85% 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 statesis 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 67 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- R a Stevens Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchWI · backs 33 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Weiss Family Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchWI · backs 64 organizations that share your funders · funds 71 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Alvin a Marion Birnschein Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio matchWI · backs 33 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Community Advocates Incshared fundersportfolio matchWI · backs 21 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Impact100 Greater Milwaukee Inclocalportfolio matchWI · funds 36 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Incshared funderslocalWI · backs 64 organizations that share your funders · funds 86 organizations near you
- The Gustav & Gladys Kindt Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Burke Foundation Incshared funderslocalWI · backs 31 organizations that share your funders · funds 37 organizations near you
- Ralph Evinrude Foundation Incshared funderslocalWI · backs 125 organizations that share your funders · funds 153 organizations near you
- Daniel M Soref Rvoc Trshared fundersWI · backs 37 organizations that share your funders
- Charles D Jacobus Family Foundationshared fundersWI · backs 40 organizations that share your funders
- Nicholas Family Foundation Trustshared fundersWI · backs 49 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 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
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
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
Screen this organization
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.
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 JOURNEY HOUSE INC?
- JOURNEY HOUSE INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,055,801 to it, the largest being Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc ($2,776,500). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JOURNEY HOUSE INC have?
- IRS filings report 67 organizations giving $8,055,801 in grants to JOURNEY HOUSE INC, 40 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 67funders 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