Wisconsin · Nonprofit
WISCONSIN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
WISCONSIN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,701,153 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ($4,379,759). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $55M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $5.7M
- Net assets
- $15M
What Wisconsin Community Services Inc does
Mission
Wisconsin community services advocates for justice and community safety, providing innovative opportunities for individuals to overcome adversity.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Specialized services: specialized services provides programs serving children, adults, and families in the community, by providing year-round, person-centered care, and services to meet the behavioral health and substance use recovery needs of those served. Support to individuals and families in need of assistance are provided by care coordinators, peer specialists, housing navigators, clinicians providing outpatient mental health and substance use clinical services, and 24-hour care for children (residential treatment and youth crisis stabilization facility) and adults (supported housing). Primary programs for the year were provided in 4 service areas: youth and adult 24-hour care, care coordination and supportive services, peer specialist programs, and treatment foster care. Approximately 4,000 people were served by the 21 programs under specialized services.
$20,721,686 spentof which $339,566 as grants$1,886,863 earned by the program43% of program spendingAdult behavioral health services: the behavioral health services area has programs that work with individual adults and families, providing services that focus on treatment for persistent mental illness, substance abuse, housing, and overall case management to help individuals be successful in the community. Adults and families are served by three main service areas: community based mental health programs (cbmhp), forensics services and community based recovery programs. In total, the 10 programs within the adult behavioral health services program area served approximately 2,000 individuals and families during the year.
$12,959,896 spentof which $286,695 as grants$5,123,719 earned by the program27% of program spendingCourt services: court services provides services to both youth and adults at risk of, or involved with, the justice system by providing accountability and guidance through pretrial and post-conviction supervision, monitoring and treatment services. Services primarily involve case management and supervision services, provided with varying levels of intensity. Some services may require individuals served to be electronically monitored or to submit to drug testing, which are additional services offered under the court services umbrella. Several programs have staff on-call 24/7/365 for the individuals served. The 21 court services programs operated in multiple counties in the state of wisconsin, including milwaukee, waukesha, jefferson, kenosha, ozaukee, washington, and manitowoc county. Most of the funding comes from the county where the services take place. These programs served approximately 5,000 individuals during the year.
$5,274,669 spentof which $15,069 as grants$1,054,093 earned by the program11% of program spendingResidential re-entry services
$4,139,657 spentof which $65,556 as grants$2,929,943 earned by the program9% of program spendingYouth services
$2,495,664 spentof which $52,692 as grants5% of program spendingWorkforce development
$965,461 spentof which $135,415 as grants2% of program spendingCommunity building milwaukee
$603,031 spentof which $3,900 as grants$360,060 earned by the program1% of program spendingTraining and quality assurance
$519,281 spent$295 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 8 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $47,679,345.
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 $18M to $24M (+32%).
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 89% · 2018 81% · 2019 88% · 2020 89% · 2021 82% · 2022 80% · 2023 73% · 2024 73%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of WISCONSIN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Clarence Johnson
Executive director
Board chair
Andreas Pack
Board president
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $658k → $846k.
4 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 WISCONSIN COMMUNITY 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
WISCONSIN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 WISCONSIN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 93% · 2020 92% · 2021 82% · 2022 90% · 2023 62% — 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 WISCONSIN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
90% of WISCONSIN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $321k 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
WISCONSIN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC has grown faster than half of the 254 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 254 crime & legal nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding WISCONSIN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $27.2M on record.
- Department of Justice$27.2M
- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission$3k
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 WISCONSIN COMMUNITY 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
88% 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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Peer Specialists Limited · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WISCONSIN COMMUNITY 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 WISCONSIN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC?
- WISCONSIN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,701,153 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ($4,379,759). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WISCONSIN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $5,701,153 in grants to WISCONSIN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WISCONSIN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,379,759 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WISCONSIN COMMUNITY 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 21 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