Michigan · Nonprofit
WOLVERINE HUMAN SERVICES
WOLVERINE HUMAN SERVICES (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $123,528 to it, the largest being THE MARSHALL MATHERS FOUNDATION ($65,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $124k
- Net assets
- $10M
What Wolverine Human Services does
Mission
Wolverine human serivces (whs) is a social service agency providing safety, sustenance, nurturing and theraputic intervention to children. Whs programs focus on adolescents suffering from social injustices of abuse and neglect and those involved in delinquent activities. Specifically, whs will offer the most appropriate settings and most effective service providers to children, their families, and their communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Wolverine center is licensed to provide high secured residential treatment services. The treatment program uses an eclectic approach which was based on the wolverine treatment model blending reality therapy, behaviour modification, traditional group, family and individual counseling ans recreational activiteis.
$7,478,814 spentof which $34,966 as grants$7,929,446 earned by the program50% of program spendingVassar house is a residential behavioural health program for young woman. The major focus of the 90-day treatment regimen is chemical dependency treatment and trauma recovery. A unique "truama informed" behavioural approach combined with methods for aimed at creating new options for young women.
$3,768,004 spentof which $12,826 as grants$3,057,004 earned by the program25% of program spendingClarence fischer center is a residential behavioural health program for young men. The major focus of the 90-day treatment regimen is chemical dependency treatment and trauma recovery. A unique "trauma informed" behavioural approach combined with methods for aimed at creating new options for young men.
$3,723,269 spentof which $20,427 as grants$4,930,726 earned by the program25% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $14,970,087.
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 2021 to 2022, from $27M to $23M (−15%).
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 12% · 2021 17% · 2022 2% · 2023 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of WOLVERINE HUMAN SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Judith Ann Fischer
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $20k → $8k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 WOLVERINE HUMAN SERVICES’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
WOLVERINE HUMAN SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 57% · 2019 56% · 2020 57% · 2021 40% · 2022 97% · 2023 98% — 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.
Where its funders are
WOLVERINE HUMAN SERVICES draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $678 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
WOLVERINE HUMAN SERVICES's revenue fell 53% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like WOLVERINE HUMAN 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
79% 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
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WOLVERINE HUMAN 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 WOLVERINE HUMAN SERVICES?
- WOLVERINE HUMAN SERVICES (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $123,528 to it, the largest being THE MARSHALL MATHERS FOUNDATION ($65,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WOLVERINE HUMAN SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $123,528 in grants to WOLVERINE HUMAN SERVICES, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WOLVERINE HUMAN SERVICES?
- THE MARSHALL MATHERS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $65,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WOLVERINE HUMAN 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 4 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