Michigan · Nonprofit
CASS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC
CASS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC (Michigan) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,117,855 to it, the largest being REGION IV AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC (WITH FOSTER GRANDPARENTS PROGRAM) ($1,708,255). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.2M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $10M
What Cass County Council on Aging Inc does
Mission
The council is a community-supported human service agency and a vital part of the aging network for seniors of sw michigan. The council assists older adults and those responsible for their well being and committed to enhancing the quality of their lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Care services team: provides meals to home bound seniors and provides homemaking and personal grooming assistance.
$1,671,594 spent$1,777,374 earned by the program62% of program spendingActive living: provides nutritional, recreational, socialization, and educational needs for area seniors.
$431,509 spent$335,223 earned by the program16% of program spendingHr and community development team: provides for area seniors and handicapped rides to medical appointments and provides excursions for social events.
$131,379 spent$138,036 earned by the program5% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$453,970 spent$687,991 earned by the program17% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,688,452.
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 2023 to 2024, from $7.5M to $8.9M (+17%).
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: 2021 10% · 2022 0% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of CASS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Martin Heiry
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $154k → $178k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 CASS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING 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
CASS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 CASS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 78% · 2019 74% · 2020 51% · 2021 80% · 2022 81% · 2023 81% — 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
44% of CASS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
95% of CASS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING 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. $141k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
CASS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CASS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING 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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CASS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: 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 CASS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC?
- CASS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC (Michigan) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,117,855 to it, the largest being REGION IV AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC (WITH FOSTER GRANDPARENTS PROGRAM) ($1,708,255). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CASS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $2,117,855 in grants to CASS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CASS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC?
- REGION IV AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC (WITH FOSTER GRANDPARENTS PROGRAM) is the largest funder on record, with $1,708,255 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CASS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 11 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