Michigan · Nonprofit
Alternative Directions
Alternative Directions (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being COREWELL HEALTH GROUP RETURN ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What Alternative Directions does
Mission
To provide commnity sanctions, housing, and counseling services for offenders.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Residential Probation - program for rehabilitation and supervised housing for probationers (229 participants this year)
$1,202,053 spent$1,120,270 earned by the program75% of program spendingTransitional Housing residents who have been recently released from prison can reside here for up to six months. They can leave at any time if they find acceptable accommodations. They receive minimal services (room & board) and are not required to participate in rehab-related activities, unlike regular residents. They work with and report to their individual court (parole/probation) officers rather than our case managers. This program served 160 residents during the year.
$316,160 spent20% of program spendingFederal Pre-trial and DROP program
$87,154 spent$104,379 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,605,367.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $2.5M to $3.3M (+35%).
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 10% · 2021 9% · 2022 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of Alternative Directions’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. 3 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
Michelle Macdonald
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $0.
From the IRS filings of Alternative Directions’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 1 of 4 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Alternative Directions's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
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.
Against its field
Alternative Directions holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Alternative Directions
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 Alternative Directions: 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 Alternative Directions?
- Alternative Directions (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being COREWELL HEALTH GROUP RETURN ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Alternative Directions have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $20,000 in grants to Alternative Directions, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Alternative Directions?
- COREWELL HEALTH GROUP RETURN is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Alternative Directions 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 2018–2025), 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