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SHELTER ASSOCIATION OF WASHTENAW COUNTY
SHELTER ASSOCIATION OF WASHTENAW COUNTY (Michigan) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,250,275 to it, the largest being DUFFY FOUNDATION ($2,025,000). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.9M
- Funders on record
- 69
- Grants received
- $7.3M
- Net assets
- $9.0M
What Shelter Association of Washtenaw County does
Mission
Ending homelessness one person at a time.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The residential program - provides emergency shelter and supports homeless men and women in washtenaw county each year. Each client partners with a sawc case manager to create mutual goals in a housing plan. The plan focuses on overcoming housing barriers through referrals to housing resources and vouchers, benefit coordination, and community supports. Each year, the shelter association advocates for more affordable housing in washtenaw county. The sawc has a goal of assisting at least 60% of residential guests to locate affordable housing each year. Clients are also provided assistance with addressing other needs including mental health conditions, physical disability, transportation assistance, substance abuse, help with finding employment, and medical needs among others.
$1,869,078 spentof which $347,578 as grants52% of program spendingThe shelter non-resident program - aids up to 60-85 individuals at a time to locate safe, affordable housing. The program provides a case manager to assist the client with accessing supportive networks in the community to end their homelessness before a residential bed becomes available. Additional basic needs services provided include an onsite medical clinic, laundry, storage, showers, phone and mail access. Clients are also provided assistance with addressing other related needs including mental health, disability, transportation assistance, substance abuse, and help with finding employment.
$1,544,485 spent43% of program spendingHealth clinic - packard health partners with the shelter association to provide primary medical care and a once a week psychiatric clinic for mental health evaluations and medication reviews. This integrated care model is successful in linking a vulnerable, priority population to vital medical and mental health psychiatric services. The program supports patient-centered medial care for those with reduced medical adherence and access to care. The needs of those experiencing homelessness has increased; the percentage of clients with a disability has increased from 46% to over 70% in the last three years, making this program vital to our efforts to end homelessness.
$202,290 spent6% of program spendingShelter association winter programs - operates during the winter months from mid-november to early april and includes 85 additional warming center beds and 25 rotating shelter beds. The warming center operatings on the 1st and 2nd floor of the delonis center and the rotating shelter offers 25 beds hosted in partnership with 20 partner congregations throughout washtenaw county. The winter program also operates a day shelter that is provided off-site during the week at local congregations and onsite at the delonis center on weekends. Social workers offer individualized housing plans, intensive case management, and housing voucher sign up assistance. Additional basic need services include an onsite medical clinic, laundry, storage, showers, phone and mail access. In the 2024-2025 winter season, an average of 70 persons staying each night accessed the night time shelter.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,615,853.
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 $7.3M to $9.1M (+25%).
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 50% · 2018 51% · 2019 48% · 2020 41% · 2021 55% · 2022 44% · 2023 46% · 2024 41% · 2025 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of SHELTER ASSOCIATION OF WASHTENAW COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Jamie Buhr
Chair emerit
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $444k → $980k.
17 of 69 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 SHELTER ASSOCIATION OF WASHTENAW COUNTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 69 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
SHELTER ASSOCIATION OF WASHTENAW COUNTY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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
43% 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 SHELTER ASSOCIATION OF WASHTENAW COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 38% · 2019 29% · 2020 26% · 2021 35% · 2022 24% · 2023 28% — 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
67% of SHELTER ASSOCIATION OF WASHTENAW COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
97% of SHELTER ASSOCIATION OF WASHTENAW COUNTY's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
SHELTER ASSOCIATION OF WASHTENAW COUNTY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding SHELTER ASSOCIATION OF WASHTENAW COUNTY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.0M on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$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 SHELTER ASSOCIATION OF WASHTENAW COUNTY
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SHELTER ASSOCIATION OF WASHTENAW COUNTY?
- SHELTER ASSOCIATION OF WASHTENAW COUNTY (Michigan) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,250,275 to it, the largest being DUFFY FOUNDATION ($2,025,000). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SHELTER ASSOCIATION OF WASHTENAW COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 69 organizations giving $7,250,275 in grants to SHELTER ASSOCIATION OF WASHTENAW COUNTY, 47 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHELTER ASSOCIATION OF WASHTENAW COUNTY?
- DUFFY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,025,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHELTER ASSOCIATION OF WASHTENAW COUNTY 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 69 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