Michigan · Nonprofit
MATRIX HUMAN SERVICES
MATRIX HUMAN SERVICES (Michigan) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,554,340 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ($4,676,731). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $63M
- Funders on record
- 56
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $16M
What Matrix Human Services does
Mission
Inspired by its heritage since 1906, Matrix Human Services advocates for and services the most vulnerable in the metropolitan detroit community and empowers individiuals and families to enhance the quality of their lives and achieve self sufficiency.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Head start programs matrix head start provides bilingual preschool classes at 16 sites in detroit. This program is designed to give underprivileged children a "head start" through early education and nutritional assistance. The entire family also receives medical, dental, and mental health support, career development, parent and volunteer involvement, and information and referral to other available social services.
$35,844,561 spent66% of program spendingAdult programs. The social mobility centers are a collection of programs and services under the adult and senior division of Matrix Human Services. The collective goal of these centers are to assist Matrix Human Services achieve its mission of supporting families and rebuilding neighborhoods in detroit. The programs, services and the compassionate people delivering the services have the capacity to offer a hand up and not a hand out, and to move a person from poverty to self-sufficiency. The centers are housed at the matrix center which is Matrix Human Services community hub in the osborn area of the eastside of detroit. Workforce development center - at the heart of social and economic mobility is the ability to secure and maintain gainful employment. This is the ultimate goal of the employment center. Services availabe through this center are: soft skills training, one-on-one career coaching and counseling, resume, cover letter and job search assistance, employment resources and referrals. Financial center - the financial center is designed to assist clients reach their personal goals and inform them on all things pertaining to economic upward mobility. Services within this…
$824,272 spent2% of program spendingTeen programs. Youth assistance program (yap) - the mission of the matrix youth assistance program (yap) and alternative intervention method offers services that reduce youth crime by providing prevention and early intervention services to youth, 7-17 years of age who are in danger of entry into the juvenile justice system. The yap program focuses upon on-site youth programming, and provides an average of 2-6 hours of programming a week. This includes at- risk group counseling, academic support activities, team building and individual sessions. "services for children and adolescents at risk of juvenile justice system involvement and placement in an institution. The partner provides services and interventions that mitigate risk factors that contribute to a youth's risk of out-of-home placement. "juveniles at risk of coming into contact with the formal justice system. Youth that are between the ages of 7 and 17, at the time of referral to the agency partner.
$2,883,031 spent5% of program spendingMatrix Human Services center (the center), est. 2006), is a community hub offering youth and families, adults and seniors an array of supportive services designed to break the cycle of poverty. The center is utilized by over 150 mission partner organizations and groups providing services to not only the osborn community but to neighborhoods and residents in northeast detroit (most impoverished neighborhood in detroit) and across the city. The center encompasses a collaborative network of human services designed to meet the social, physical, spiritual and educational needs of residents. Services at the center include: emergency food, after school programs, head start, emergency food, employment readiness, health resources, transportation, case coordination, children and youth programs, counseling, community development, adult training programs, health services, returning citizens programs, recreation, computer training, crisis intervention services, access to emergency shelter for runaway and homeless youth, diaper closet, clothing closet and legal aid. The majority of the programs and services at the center are free. The center is open 360 days a year, operating monday thru friday…
$14,585,204 spent27% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $54,137,068.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $24M to $30M (+24%).
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 87% · 2018 79% · 2019 82% · 2020 84% · 2021 85% · 2022 78% · 2023 81% · 2024 77%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Frank Ervin Iii
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $636k → $2.6M.
11 of 56 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of MATRIX HUMAN SERVICES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 56 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
MATRIX HUMAN SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
87% 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 MATRIX HUMAN SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 49% · 2019 66% · 2020 42% · 2021 41% · 2022 58% · 2023 56% — 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
33% of MATRIX HUMAN SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
93% of MATRIX 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. $1.4M 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.
Government funding MATRIX HUMAN SERVICES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $337.4M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$335.4M
- Small Business Administration$2.0M
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 MATRIX 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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MATRIX 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 MATRIX HUMAN SERVICES?
- MATRIX HUMAN SERVICES (Michigan) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,554,340 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ($4,676,731). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MATRIX HUMAN SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 56 organizations giving $13,554,340 in grants to MATRIX HUMAN SERVICES, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MATRIX HUMAN SERVICES?
- UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN is the largest funder on record, with $4,676,731 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MATRIX 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 56 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