Michigan · Nonprofit
WAI-IAM INC
WAI-IAM INC (Michigan) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $646,710 to it, the largest being JOE D PENTECOST FOUNDATION ($356,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $647k
- Net assets
- $376k
What Wai-Iam Inc does
Mission
Rise recovery community is a concept of wai-iam, inc., a non-profit organization with a mission to provide prevention, awareness and post treatment services in the area of substance abuse disorder.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The rise recovery community provides a new, current way for individuals with substance use disorder to live in a society drug and alcohol free. Rise is an innovative way to meet the basic needs of those in recovery by providing health, home, purpose, and community. Wai-iam's rise program offers 14 recovery homes and a 15-unit apartment complex with a total of 98 beds. A key component of the rise program is club rise, a sober engagement center. The homelike environment of club rise offers a large activity room with billiards, shuffleboard, darts, tvs, and hip music for a clublike feel. The main floor also provides additional meeting space, a computer station, and the rise tech office. The second and third-floor houses wai-iam, inc. And rise staff offices. The well maintained, structured living homes along with 4,200 square foot club rise for sober community activities, make up the rise recovery community. Welcome to the future of recovery!
$1,640,017 spent$1,019,762 earned by the program99% of program spendingStr8talk is a powerful stage presentation designed to educate middle and high school students about the dangers of drug and alcohol abuse. The program is led by experienced speakers who share their personal stories and experiences with addiction, as well as the latest information on drug and alcohol abuse trends and prevention strategies.through an engaging and interactive presentation, str8talk aims to empower young people with the knowledge and skills they need to make healthy choices and avoid the pitfalls of substance abuse. The program covers a wide range of topics, from the physical and emotional effects of drugs and alcohol to the legal consequences of drug related crimes and includes the impact actions have on family and loved ones.
$16,272 spent$51,083 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,656,289.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.3M to $2.5M (+93%).
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: 2020 7% · 2021 9% · 2022 14% · 2023 27% · 2024 34%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
46% of WAI-IAM INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Julia Goatley
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $4k → $30k.
9 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 WAI-IAM INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 16 of 17 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
WAI-IAM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
39% 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 WAI-IAM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 66% · 2020 38% · 2021 83% · 2022 35% · 2023 83% — 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
25% of WAI-IAM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 29% 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
100% of WAI-IAM INC's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $246k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
WAI-IAM INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like WAI-IAM 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 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
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WAI-IAM 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 WAI-IAM INC?
- WAI-IAM INC (Michigan) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $646,710 to it, the largest being JOE D PENTECOST FOUNDATION ($356,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WAI-IAM INC have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $646,710 in grants to WAI-IAM INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WAI-IAM INC?
- JOE D PENTECOST FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $356,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WAI-IAM INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 17 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