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NOVA COUNSELING SERVICES INC

NOVA COUNSELING SERVICES INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,052,677 to it, the largest being OSHKOSH AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION CORPORATION ($479,150). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$2.1M
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$1.1M
Net assets
$1.7M
6/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%
01What it does

What Nova Counseling Services Inc does

Mission

Helping people heal from alcoholism and other substance use disorders.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Nova/terra - rehabilitation for aoda clientsnova continues with its mission to provide the highest quality of care at the most affordable cost for our clients and their families. In 2024, over 85% of clients were medicaid funded and about $6000 in aid was applied to clients who could not afford their treatment.

    $1,755,583 spentof which $5,995 as grants$1,977,804 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,755,583.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.4M) Expenses 100 ($2.5M) Net assets 100 ($1.5M)2018 Revenue 106 ($2.6M) Expenses 102 ($2.6M) Net assets 97 ($1.5M)2019 Revenue 107 ($2.6M) Expenses 96 ($2.4M) Net assets 105 ($1.6M)2020 Revenue 81 ($2.0M) Expenses 85 ($2.1M) Net assets 97 ($1.5M)2021 Revenue 85 ($2.1M) Expenses 66 ($1.7M) Net assets 128 ($2.0M)2022 Revenue 71 ($1.7M) Expenses 75 ($1.9M) Net assets 112 ($1.7M)2023 Revenue 100 ($2.4M) Expenses 89 ($2.3M) Net assets 128 ($2.0M)2024 Revenue 85 ($2.1M) Expenses 94 ($2.4M) Net assets 110 ($1.7M)
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Revenue (85)Expenses (94)Net assets (110)Peer revenue range

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 $2.6M to $2.3M (−12%).

$2.5M
$2.4M
$2.5M
$2.3M
$2.6M
$2.4M
$2.6M
$2.3M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 16% · 2021 15% · 2023 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

3% of NOVA COUNSELING SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,611 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$92k
’17
−$2k
’18
$168k
’19
−$172k
’20
$381k
’21
−$164k
’22
$172k
’23
−$323k
’24
0.2
months of
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

Jody Willeford

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Joined·+0+1+1+0+1+2+2
No longer listed·0120033
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $50k → $168k.

3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 NOVA COUNSELING 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

NOVA COUNSELING SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

49% 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 NOVA COUNSELING SERVICES INC.

46%
largest funder
93%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 54% · 2019 91% · 2020 86% · 2021 95% · 2022 100% · 2023 42% — 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

57% of NOVA COUNSELING SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

92% of NOVA COUNSELING SERVICES INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.

WI
DE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $520k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

NOVA COUNSELING SERVICES INC's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−16% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 26%Fundraising 1%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

90%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

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Questions and answers

Who funds NOVA COUNSELING SERVICES INC?
NOVA COUNSELING SERVICES INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,052,677 to it, the largest being OSHKOSH AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION CORPORATION ($479,150). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NOVA COUNSELING SERVICES INC have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,052,677 in grants to NOVA COUNSELING SERVICES INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NOVA COUNSELING SERVICES INC?
OSHKOSH AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $479,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NOVA COUNSELING 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 8 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