Michigan · Nonprofit
JUDSON CENTER INC
JUDSON CENTER INC (Michigan) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,497,397 to it, the largest being Detroit Auto Dealers Association Charity Preview ($1,492,933). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $30M
- Funders on record
- 71
- Grants received
- $6.5M
- Net assets
- $18M
What Judson Center Inc does
Mission
To provide expert, comprehensive services that strengthen children, adults and families impacted by abuse and neglect, autism, developmental, behavioral and physical health challenges so they can achieve whole health, well-being and maximum potential.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Child welfare services: guided by the belief that every child deserves a safe, permanent and loving family where they can grow up to be happy and productive members of their communities, judson provides family preservation, foster care and adoption for children throughout southeastern michigan. Judson center provides the resources, tools and support necessary to help families stay together. Our counselors and therapists go directly into the homes of at-risk families to provide support if foster care becomes necessary. We work with the biological family to strengthen the family unit and to reduce barriers which are preventing the youth from living at home. In addition, we recruit and train families to provide loving and supportive foster homes to children who are separated from their biological parents. If a child cannot safely return home, we search for alternative permanent placements that will ensure the child grows up in a permanent, safe, and loving environment. We also maintain a website that is an information and referral service for prospective adoptive parents interested in adopting children with "special needs and for adoption workers looking for homes for these children.…
$5,747,305 spentof which $24,952 as grants$1,574,615 earned by the program30% of program spendingAutism services: judson center autism connections helps support the needs of children, teens and adults in southeastern michigan with autism spectrum disorders (asd). Judson center offers diagnostic assessments to help determine the most appropriate treatment for each individual. We encourage early intervention and provide the most appropriate treatment for each individual, including applied behavior analysis, therapy, counseling, and social skill training. In addition to providing specialized care and treatment for individuals with autism, we strive to support the entire family by offering family support services for parents and siblings of those affected by autism. Our objective is to provide expert, comprehensive services that strengthen children and their family impacted by asd children with autism they are successful in their communities. 235 children with autism developed new social and life skills.
$7,225,111 spent$8,440,064 earned by the program37% of program spendingBehavioral health & primary care: judson center is committed to providing high quality integrated behavioral health and primary health care services to children, families and adults. Services include outpatient therapy, in-home therapy for children with serious emotional disturbances, co-occurring disorders, primary health care and substance use disorders. It is our fundamental belief that individuals with behavioral health challenges can live productive and rewarding lives. 2,308 individuals received life-changing behavioral health services. 558 children and adults received medical health care services through a team care approach.
$4,129,765 spentof which $5,696 as grants$3,046,814 earned by the program21% of program spendingDisability services: judson center provides respite care and vocational services for children and adults with developmental disabilities. In our vocational service program, we assertively facilitate integrated, community-based employment wherein individuals and communities experience meaningful and productive outcomes. Our approach is person centered and strength based. We believe each person can achieve optimal success given the right circumstances and support. Connections between individuals and employers involve matching the interests, preferences and abilities of the individual to the requirements and demands of jobs/positions in the community. Respite care provides temporary relief to parents and caregivers of children and adults who are medically fragile or have developmental disabilities by providing the parents and caregivers with much needed breaks from the day-to-day stresses that come with caring for a child or an adult with a developmental disability or physical impairment. The objective of the program is to promote growth, opportunity and independence for individuals with disabilities by providing training in life skills and developing inclusive employment options. We…
$2,306,318 spent12% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $19,408,499.
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 2024 to 2025, from $23M to $28M (+21%).
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 63% · 2018 61% · 2019 47% · 2020 53% · 2021 56% · 2022 43% · 2023 44% · 2024 39% · 2025 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
39% of JUDSON CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Lenora Hardy-Foster
President & chief executive officer
Board chair
Pauline Furman
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 26 funders, grant income fell $807k → $527k.
12 of 71 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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: $4.8M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Judson Center Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money JUDSON CENTER INC raised.
From the IRS filings of JUDSON CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 71 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
JUDSON CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
64% 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 JUDSON CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 39% · 2019 52% · 2020 31% · 2021 22% · 2022 24% · 2023 38% — 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
44% of JUDSON CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
87% of JUDSON CENTER INC's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
JUDSON CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding JUDSON CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.2M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$8.2M
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 JUDSON CENTER 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 Michigan
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
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Judson Center Foundation · exempt
- Judson Center Staffing Solutions · exempt
- Child Safe Michigan · exempt
- Child Safe Michigan Foundation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds JUDSON CENTER INC?
- JUDSON CENTER INC (Michigan) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,497,397 to it, the largest being Detroit Auto Dealers Association Charity Preview ($1,492,933). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JUDSON CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 71 organizations giving $6,497,397 in grants to JUDSON CENTER INC, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JUDSON CENTER INC?
- Detroit Auto Dealers Association Charity Preview is the largest funder on record, with $1,492,933 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JUDSON CENTER INC 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 71 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