Michigan · Nonprofit
CARES OF FARMINGTON HILLS INC
CARES OF FARMINGTON HILLS INC (Michigan) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $493,411 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ($100,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2021
- $485k
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $493k
- Net assets
- $344k
What Cares of Farmington Hills Inc does
Mission
To provide comprehensive support services for individuals and families that are in need of everyday necessities due to insufficient financial resources or family instabilty. C.a.r.e.s. Will offer food, clothing, job education and training and access to other support activities
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.
Programs
The pantry provides emergency and supplemental food assistance to over eight hundred families each month. We distribute food purchased from gleaners food bank, tefap (the emergency food assistance program) along with other commodities and donated items from community partners. Suburban hunger is a growing concern, and cares is working to support families and individuals that are experiencing hardship.these products include fresh produce, meats, dairy, non-perishables items and personal care products. Cares guests select food and other items based on family size, dietary needs, and availability. Each guest shops for themselves and has a choice to pick items that fit their family best.
$857,550 spent$2,000 earned by the program85% of program spendingThe cares market is a neighborhood grocery store operating on a nonprofit enterprise model. It offers affordable, nutritious food and other necessary items to the public, with all net proceeds directly supporting the cares nonprofit free food pantry. The market improves local food access while generating revenue to sustain and help maintain cares' core services. It also promotes dignity and choice by allowing customers, especially pantry guests with limited resources, to shop in a typical retail environment.
$83,326 spent$-8,338 earned by the program8% of program spendingCares connects guests to wraparound support services through its on-site navigation center and advocacy team. Services include utility shutoff prevention, veterans' support home repair services, wic referrals, aa programs, transportation coordination, mental health resources, and health insurance assistance. Cares collaborates with over a dozen local agencies and partners to address underlying causes of poverty and instability.
$67,036 spent7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,007,912.
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 2019 to 2020, from $539k to $783k (+45%).
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.
97% of CARES OF FARMINGTON HILLS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 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
Todd Lipa
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $10k → $28k.
7 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 CARES OF FARMINGTON HILLS 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
CARES OF FARMINGTON HILLS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
57% 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 CARES OF FARMINGTON HILLS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 53% · 2021 39% · 2022 54% · 2023 51% — 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
44% of CARES OF FARMINGTON HILLS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 30% 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
75% of CARES OF FARMINGTON HILLS INC's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $126k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
CARES OF FARMINGTON HILLS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,423 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,423 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2021
Organizations like CARES OF FARMINGTON HILLS 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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
21% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CARES OF FARMINGTON HILLS INC?
- CARES OF FARMINGTON HILLS INC (Michigan) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $493,411 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ($100,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CARES OF FARMINGTON HILLS INC have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $493,411 in grants to CARES OF FARMINGTON HILLS INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CARES OF FARMINGTON HILLS INC?
- UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CARES OF FARMINGTON HILLS INC 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 FY2021 (financials across 2018–2021), and the filings of 23 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