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AGEWELL SERVICES OF WEST MICHIGAN

AGEWELL SERVICES OF WEST MICHIGAN (Michigan) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,946,335 to it, the largest being Senior Resources of West Michigan ($15,026,748). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$4.4M
Funders on record
24
Grants received
$16M
Net assets
$599k
13/24 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 48%
01What it does

What Agewell Services of West Michigan does

Mission

Agewell services mission is to promote healthy aging and maximize independence through nutrition, wellness, and supportive services in the community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Home delivered - serve meals in homes of participants in muskegon, oceana and ottawa counties. Total meals served are 158,008.

    $2,093,510 spent$190,181 earned by the program
    48% of program spending

  2. Congregate - serve at congregate lunch and activity meal sites to participants in muskegon, oceana and ottawa counties. Total meals served was 55,761.

    $673,576 spent$99,772 earned by the program
    16% of program spending

  3. Lifecircles provide lifecircles clients with meals and nutrition services either at home or in a congregate setting. Total meals served was 51,857.

    $344,217 spent$308,473 earned by the program
    8% of program spending

  4. Medicaid waiver - provide home delivered meals and a daily visit to homebound elderly and younger adults with diabilities as part of the home and community based services waiver. Served 221 participants and 46,670 meals. Other services - to promote wellness and enrichment to seniors. This includes wellness, full pay, elder abuse, transportation, matter of balance and other activities.

    $1,222,788 spent$100,972 earned by the program
    28% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,334,091.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.3M) Expenses 100 ($3.4M) Net assets 100 ($536k)2018 Revenue 108 ($3.6M) Expenses 103 ($3.5M) Net assets 103 ($550k)2019 Revenue 113 ($3.7M) Expenses 107 ($3.7M) Net assets 109 ($582k)2020 Revenue 124 ($4.1M) Expenses 117 ($4.0M) Net assets 117 ($628k)2021 Revenue 140 ($4.6M) Expenses 123 ($4.3M) Net assets 191 ($1.0M)2022 Revenue 169 ($5.6M) Expenses 144 ($5.0M) Net assets 287 ($1.5M)2023 Revenue 143 ($4.7M) Expenses 147 ($5.1M) Net assets 223 ($1.2M)2024 Revenue 140 ($4.6M) Expenses 146 ($5.0M) Net assets 150 ($803k)2025 Revenue 134 ($4.4M) Expenses 134 ($4.6M) Net assets 112 ($599k)
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Revenue (134)Expenses (134)Net assets (112)Peer revenue range

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 $1.5M to $2.0M (+35%).

$753k
$799k
$877k
$1.3M
$1.5M
$2.0M
$1.6M
$1.5M
$1.3M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 36% · 2018 39% · 2019 40% · 2020 46% · 2021 44% · 2022 58% · 2023 50% · 2024 54% · 2025 51%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

83% of AGEWELL SERVICES OF WEST MICHIGAN’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,200 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$156k
’17
$9k
’18
$26k
’19
$36k
’20
$370k
’21
$569k
’22
−$356k
’23
−$413k
’24
−$212k
’25
1.0
months of
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.

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Listed9108121013111110
Joined·+3+0+4+1+6+2+5+0
No longer listed·22033451
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $2.2M.

Funder
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'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
Meals on Wheels Americaunclassified
$95k
Mercy Health Partnersunclassified
$5k
funders
5
4
7
9
11
10
12
8
7

9 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 AGEWELL SERVICES OF WEST MICHIGAN’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

AGEWELL SERVICES OF WEST MICHIGAN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% 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 AGEWELL SERVICES OF WEST MICHIGAN.

94%
largest funder
97%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 98% · 2019 97% · 2020 93% · 2021 92% · 2022 95% · 2023 93% — 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 AGEWELL SERVICES OF WEST MICHIGAN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

99% of AGEWELL SERVICES OF WEST MICHIGAN's grant income comes from Michigan funders.

MN
MI
MO
VA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $482k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

AGEWELL SERVICES OF WEST MICHIGAN's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 12 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−5% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 655 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like AGEWELL SERVICES OF WEST MICHIGAN

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

AgeWays Nonprofit Senior Services87%Region II Commission on Services to the Aging86%Ogemaw Commission on Aging85%Meals on Wheels Western Michigan85%Washtenaw Pace Inc84%The Senior Alliance Inc84%Detroit Area Agency on Aging84%Northwest Senior Resources Inc83%

Nationally

AgeWays Nonprofit Senior Services87%Region II Commission on Services to the Aging86%Ogemaw Commission on Aging85%Meals on Wheels Western Michigan85%Washtenaw Pace Inc84%Senior Services Inc of Wichita84%The Senior Alliance Inc84%Detroit Area Agency on Aging84%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 1%Fundraising 5%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MI

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AGEWELL SERVICES OF WEST MICHIGAN: 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 AGEWELL SERVICES OF WEST MICHIGAN?
AGEWELL SERVICES OF WEST MICHIGAN (Michigan) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,946,335 to it, the largest being Senior Resources of West Michigan ($15,026,748). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does AGEWELL SERVICES OF WEST MICHIGAN have?
IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $15,946,335 in grants to AGEWELL SERVICES OF WEST MICHIGAN, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AGEWELL SERVICES OF WEST MICHIGAN?
Senior Resources of West Michigan is the largest funder on record, with $15,026,748 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AGEWELL SERVICES OF WEST MICHIGAN 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 24 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing