Michigan · Nonprofit
BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES
BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES (Michigan) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $700,298 to it, the largest being JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH ($293,023). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $187M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $700k
- Net assets
- $31M
What Bethany Christian Services does
Mission
Bethany Christian Services demonstrates the love and compassion of jesus christ by protecting children, empowering youth, and strengthening families through quality social services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Refugee and immigrant services: Bethany Christian Services impacted thousands of refugee and immigrant individuals from different countries adjust to life in the united states through a variety of specialized programs and services, including life skills, independent living, language and cultural education, job placement services, and counseling for persons who have been victims of trauma. 714 unaccompained children received foster care services. 96% of transitional foster care cases resulted in reunification. 3,650 children were provided home study and post release services.
$94,395,182 spentof which $817,948 as grants$106,073,461 earned by the program63% of program spendingFoster care: through offices in ten different states, Bethany Christian Services provided foster care for 3,154 children and families. Children in foster care need a loving family who will walk with them during a time of crisis and welcome them into a caring home. The goal of bethany's foster care program is to provide temporary care for children with the ultimate aim of reuniting them with their biological family, or finding an adoptive family for those children for whom reunification is not an option.
$29,711,567 spentof which $16,090 as grants$31,645,745 earned by the program20% of program spendingFamily strenthening: Bethany Christian Services impacted thousands of children and families through programs like intact family services that focus on family preservation as well as our safe care and safe families for children programs. These services can provide temporary relief and assistance to the parents of these children. 930 children and 590 parents received a safety net of support through safe families for children. 157 parents & caregivers received in-home skills traning through safecare. 977 children, parents, & families at risk of separation were supported through homebuilders. 299 parents & caregivers were connected through be strong families parent cafes which strengthens parental resilience and other protective factors.
$17,714,013 spentof which $9,592 as grants$31,898,644 earned by the program12% of program spendingAdoption and pregnancy counseling: Bethany Christian Services offices throughout the united states served 2,431 children and parents through infant and foster care adoption. Our domestic infant adoption program provided no-cost services to 134 expectant parents who benefited from pregnancy counseling services protecting unborn children. Foster care adoptions place older children who were previously in state or county funded foster care systems with loving adoptive families.
$6,888,019 spentof which $3,867 as grants$9,489,693 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $148,708,781.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $19M to $31M (+63%).
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: 2019 1% · 2021 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Keith Cureton
President/CEO
Board chair
Brian Britton
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $24k → $11k.
5 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 BETHANY CHRISTIAN 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
BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 100% · 2019 39% · 2020 92% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% — 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.
How long its funders stay
0% of BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 17% 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 FY2022, 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
BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $57k 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.
Organizations like BETHANY CHRISTIAN 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
88% 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 41 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Bethany Christian Services · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES?
- BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES (Michigan) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $700,298 to it, the largest being JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH ($293,023). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $700,298 in grants to BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES?
- JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH is the largest funder on record, with $293,023 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BETHANY CHRISTIAN 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 12 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