Wisconsin · Nonprofit
NORTHWEST DANE SENIOR SERVICES INC
NORTHWEST DANE SENIOR SERVICES INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $152,084 to it, the largest being MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA ($52,999). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $518k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $152k
- Net assets
- $160k
What Northwest Dane Senior Services Inc does
Mission
Provides premier programs and services for older adults and their families that promote well-being, independence, involvement in their community, and the ability for them to age successfully.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The organization ceased the supportive home chore program: supportive home chore - assists older adults with light indoor housekeeping, grocery shopping, and other day-to-day activities.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Nutrition - lunch with friends - join your friends for a delicious lunch served monday through friday at 11:30 am.home delivered meals - these meals are delivered by local volunteers, monday through friday, to homebound individuals ages 60+ on an ongoing or as-needed basis.
$153,563 spent$630 earned by the program38% of program spendingCase management - the case manager's primary goal is to provide seniors in our community the support, services, opportunities, and resources needed to remain safe and independent in their homes such as: confidential services, information, and referrals regarding in-home services available locally and throughout dane county; in-home safety and home-delivered meal assessments through home visits and phone calls; prescription drug and medicare supplement insurance help; medical assistance coordination; federal and county benefit programs; and life lines and medical equipment loans.
$135,753 spent33% of program spendingAdult day program - offering relief for caregivers by providing a safe, engaging and comfortable social atmosphere for persons with alzheimer's or dementia.
$73,523 spent$49,294 earned by the program18% of program spendingActivities - provides various activities regularly including bingo, dominos, educational seminars, live music, shopping trips, dine outs, and day trips. Transportation services are provided daily for individuals age 60 or older to and from their own homes for meals, shopping, wellness, and activity programs.
$45,693 spentof which $4,688 as grants$12,973 earned by the program11% of program spendingCycling without age is based on generosity and kindness. It starts with the obvious generous act of taking one or two elderly people out on a bike ride. Cycling without age is about creating a multitude of new relationships and letting people age in a positive context.
$139 spent0% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $408,671.
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 $375k to $571k (+52%).
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 22% · 2018 24% · 2019 24% · 2020 16% · 2021 51% · 2022 49% · 2023 61% · 2024 68% · 2025 66%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of NORTHWEST DANE SENIOR SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Paulette Glunn
Executive director/secretary
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $8k → $1k.
4 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 NORTHWEST DANE SENIOR SERVICES 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
NORTHWEST DANE SENIOR SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
50% 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 NORTHWEST DANE SENIOR SERVICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 51% · 2019 60% · 2020 94% · 2021 32% · 2022 86% · 2023 90% — growing more concentrated.
“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
40% of NORTHWEST DANE SENIOR SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
NORTHWEST DANE SENIOR SERVICES INC draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $24k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
NORTHWEST DANE SENIOR SERVICES INC's revenue grew 62% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like NORTHWEST DANE SENIOR SERVICES 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
80% 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds NORTHWEST DANE SENIOR SERVICES INC?
- NORTHWEST DANE SENIOR SERVICES INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $152,084 to it, the largest being MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA ($52,999). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTHWEST DANE SENIOR SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $152,084 in grants to NORTHWEST DANE SENIOR SERVICES INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHWEST DANE SENIOR SERVICES INC?
- MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $52,999 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHWEST DANE SENIOR SERVICES 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.
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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 14 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