Michigan · Nonprofit
SOS COMMUNITY SERVICES
SOS COMMUNITY SERVICES (Michigan) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,526,298 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($1,185,824). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.1M
- Funders on record
- 60
- Grants received
- $4.5M
- Net assets
- $6.4M
What Sos Community Services does
Mission
Sos promotes housing stability and family self-sufficiency through collaboration, care, and respect.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Sos children's services offer children and parent programming and support to overcome the challenges they face as they transition in housing programs. Sos offers the parents as teachers in-home parenting education and support program for families with children age five and younger. For families with older children, sos offers the ypsilanti parent network to provide out-of-school enrichment opportunities for children, parenting information, and support for parents to pursue their education and employment goals.
$496,558 spentof which $39,785 as grants10% of program spendingSos housing services assist families on the path to self-sufficiency. Sos operates five units of emergency shelter for homeless families with minor children, multiple units of rapid rehousing, and a program to help people retain section 8/housing choice vouchers (hcv) if they are threatened with eviction. Shelter and rapid rehousing include in-home case management services to address needs related to housing stability, increasing income, and employment support. Sos also supports washtenaw county's single point of entry for emergency housing (housing access of washtenaw county) by providing family shelter assessments and eviction prevention services.
$3,857,655 spentof which $1,021,691 as grants81% of program spendingSos family resource center provides assistance to households facing a variety of needs. The food pantry provides weekly distribution of fresh fruits and vegetables, as well as a fully stocked pantry of food staples. The family resource center also provides assistance with utility shutoffs, bus tokens, referrals to community resources, and serves as a mi-bridges navigation site. The family resource center distributes diapers, laundry soap, menstrual products, and other personal care items as available.
$424,952 spentof which $115,455 as grants9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,779,165.
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 $5.6M to $7.1M (+27%).
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 64% · 2018 74% · 2019 73% · 2020 71% · 2021 58% · 2022 86% · 2023 80% · 2024 60% · 2025 56%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of SOS COMMUNITY SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $252k → $692k.
11 of 60 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 SOS COMMUNITY SERVICES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 60 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
SOS COMMUNITY SERVICES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
66% 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 SOS COMMUNITY SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 32% · 2019 22% · 2020 33% · 2021 36% · 2022 24% · 2023 26% — 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
62% of SOS COMMUNITY SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
50% of SOS COMMUNITY SERVICES'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 $2.3M that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M 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.
Against its field
SOS COMMUNITY SERVICES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding SOS COMMUNITY SERVICES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $18.6M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$18.6M
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 SOS COMMUNITY 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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 SOS COMMUNITY 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 SOS COMMUNITY SERVICES?
- SOS COMMUNITY SERVICES (Michigan) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,526,298 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($1,185,824). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SOS COMMUNITY SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 60 organizations giving $4,526,298 in grants to SOS COMMUNITY SERVICES, 40 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOS COMMUNITY SERVICES?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $1,185,824 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOS COMMUNITY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 60 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