Michigan · Nonprofit
SOUTHWEST COUNSELING SOLUTIONS
SOUTHWEST COUNSELING SOLUTIONS (Michigan) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,860,112 to it, the largest being Starfish Family Services Inc ($8,054,368). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SOUTHWEST COUNSELING SOLUTIONS's revenue fell 39% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,579 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Detroit Employment Solutions Corporationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- McGregor Fundshared funderslocalportfolio match
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.
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 53% · 2018 51% · 2019 49% · 2020 45% · 2021 46% · 2022 50% · 2023 56% · 2024 61%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of SOUTHWEST COUNSELING SOLUTIONS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $6.9M → $3k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $15M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Bridgeway Services Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money SOUTHWEST COUNSELING SOLUTIONS raised.
From the IRS filings of SOUTHWEST COUNSELING SOLUTIONS’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
SOUTHWEST COUNSELING SOLUTIONS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 SOUTHWEST COUNSELING SOLUTIONS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 78% · 2019 61% · 2020 100% · 2021 65% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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
14% of SOUTHWEST COUNSELING SOLUTIONS'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
98% of SOUTHWEST COUNSELING SOLUTIONS's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 9 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Detroit Employment Solutions Corporationshared funderslocalportfolio matchMI · backs 19 organizations that share your funders · funds 33 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchMI · backs 67 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- McGregor Fundshared funderslocalportfolio matchMI · backs 61 organizations that share your funders · funds 97 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Ethel and James Flinn Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchMI · backs 42 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Michigan Health Endowment Fundshared fundersportfolio matchMI · backs 74 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Priority Health Total Health Foundationlocalportfolio matchMI · funds 64 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Dmc Foundationlocalportfolio matchMI · funds 30 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Young Woman's Home Association of Detroit Michiganportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Michigan Public Health Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Metro Health Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Prevention Michiganportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Jewish Fundshared fundersMI · backs 38 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding SOUTHWEST COUNSELING SOLUTIONS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $61.0M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$31.8M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$21.4M
- Department of Health and Human Services$6.5M
- Department of Labor$1.3M
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 SOUTHWEST COUNSELING SOLUTIONS
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
65%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 39 related entities
- Southwest Housing Solutions Dba Miside Housing · exempt
- Southwest Solutions Inc Dba Miside Community Impact Network · exempt
- Bagley Housing Association · exempt
- Southwest Economic Solutions Dba Miside Wealth · exempt
- Development Centers Inc Dba Miside Early Years · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOUTHWEST COUNSELING SOLUTIONS: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SOUTHWEST COUNSELING SOLUTIONS?
- SOUTHWEST COUNSELING SOLUTIONS (Michigan) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,860,112 to it, the largest being Starfish Family Services Inc ($8,054,368). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTHWEST COUNSELING SOLUTIONS have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $10,860,112 in grants to SOUTHWEST COUNSELING SOLUTIONS, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTHWEST COUNSELING SOLUTIONS?
- Starfish Family Services Inc is the largest funder on record, with $8,054,368 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTHWEST COUNSELING SOLUTIONS 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.
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 9funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing