Wisconsin · Nonprofit
ORION FAMILY SERVICES INC
ORION FAMILY SERVICES INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,124 to it, the largest being MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.0M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $50k
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Orion Family Services Inc does
Mission
As a regional nonprofit behavioral health provider rooted in southern wisconsin, our dedicated professionals promote well-being through compassionate mental health and community services including therapy, skills development, safety support, and service facilitation. The organization's practice spans homes, schools, community spaces, and clinics, ensuring that children, youth, adults, and families receive support in the settings most responsive to their needs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Home and community services: orion staff works as part of an engagement team with county staff and other service providers to develop a plan for long term voluntary support to cope with mental illness. Orion organizes the effort to promote and provide daily living skills, individual skill development, mentorship, safety, wellness, and well-being.
$2,884,011 spent$433,008 earned by the program70% of program spendingCounty services: orion provides intensive in-home family therapy service to children or youth who demonstrate significant emotional, social, or behavioral problems. By providing this service in the home, there is a greater chance everyone will participate. It allows for a more individualized treatment designed to fit the needs of the child, youth, and family.
$412,948 spent10% of program spendingInsurance services: orion provides confidential counseling and therapy services to adults and children in a traditional in-home or outpatient basis. A wide range of issues are addressed including depression, anxiety, family conflicts and marital discord.
$621,694 spent$115,687 earned by the program15% of program spendingCommunity and in-home safety services: provides safety intervention services for children at risk of abuse and neglect. The goal of the program is to provide in-home safety and supervisory services to families so they remain together, averting the need for out-of-home placement of their children whenever possible.
$209,490 spent5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,128,143.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.6M to $2.2M (+36%).
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 72% · 2018 89% · 2019 92% · 2020 90% · 2021 90% · 2022 91% · 2023 83% · 2024 89%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of ORION FAMILY SERVICES 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. 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.
Chief executive
Stacey P Chandler
Executive director
Board chair
Carol Barth
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $16k → $1k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 ORION FAMILY 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
ORION FAMILY SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
98% 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 ORION FAMILY SERVICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 95% — 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.
Where its funders are
66% of ORION FAMILY SERVICES INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $17k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $33k 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.
Against its field
ORION FAMILY SERVICES INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like ORION FAMILY 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
85% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ORION FAMILY SERVICES 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ORION FAMILY SERVICES INC?
- ORION FAMILY SERVICES INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,124 to it, the largest being MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ORION FAMILY SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $50,124 in grants to ORION FAMILY SERVICES INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ORION FAMILY SERVICES INC?
- MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ORION FAMILY 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 5 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