Michigan · Nonprofit
CATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICES
CATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICES (Michigan) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,973,917 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN ($1,755,968). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $3.0M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Catholic Family Services does
Mission
We are god's hands providing housing, health, and hope to his children.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The ark is located in kalamazoo and is the only short-term crisis intervention shelter serving youth ages 10-17 in the nine counties served by the diocese of kalamazoo. The ark serves youth who have run away; are in danger of being homeless; or are experiencing a crisis. Youth stay up to 21 days and receive counseling, support services, and aftercare services at no charge. The goal is to unite and strengthen families or help homeless youth find alternative safe and stable housing. In 2022, the ark shelter served runaway and homeless youth with 1,774 hours of case management and provided 827 days of care. The ark youth independent living program helps homeless youth ages 16-21 to find housing, complete their education, and find employment. In 2022, they provided 450 hours of counseling and case management services and 2,110 days of housing assistance to 15 youth. The ark outreach program helps homeless youth on the streets, offers free education and prevention workshops in schools and other organizations and helps promote the ark services. In 2022, outreach's efforts were limited due to covid-19 restrictions, although they maintained connections throughout the community. Through…
$1,337,943 spentof which $16,495 as grants47% of program spendingCaring network serves pregnant and parenting young women and their families in kalamazoo county. The goals are to ensure healthy pregnancies and babies and to help develop healthy parenting behaviors. Services are provided at no charge to clients and include case management, in-home visits, referrals, pregnancy testing, pregnancy and parenting classes, postpartum depression screening, infant mortality screening and education, family literacy programs, and material items. In 2022, caring network provided supportive services to 263 women. Through community support, assistance in the form of clothing, furniture, household items, car seats, cribs, diapers, and holiday gift baskets valued at 66,055 were given to eligible clients.
$514,423 spentof which $67,502 as grants$63,547 earned by the program18% of program spendingThe bridges program provides high quality outpatient mental counseling for individuals, couples, families, and children. Bridges helps clients resolve issues relating to depression, anger management, marital or relationship conflicts, grief, loss, gender identity and depression to improve their quality of life. In 2022, bridges provided 530 therapy sessions.
$169,329 spent6% of program spendingBaraga manor (otsego senior apartments) in otsego provides affordable and safe living for adults age 62 or older and/or mobility-impaired adults. There are 48 one-bedroom units. Amenities include a community center and laundry facilities on each floor. Staffing includes a service coordinator and a maintenance manager. In 2022, 46 adults were provided with 16,790 days of residence. The heating assitance program, offered in collaboration with the diocese of kalamazoo, helps low-income families and individuals with their winter heating bills. In 2022, 72,319 passed through our agency from the diocese of kalamazoo and was disbursed to 713 people in the nine county region of the diocese. This program is administered each year by volunteers.
$801,571 spentof which $181,405 as grants$59,740 earned by the program28% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,823,266.
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 2022 to 2023, from $2.5M to $1.9M (−25%).
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: 2017 56% · 2018 56% · 2019 56% · 2020 49% · 2021 39% · 2022 30% · 2023 31% · 2024 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
68% of CATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $388k → $350k.
5 of 17 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 CATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 16 of 17 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.
How concentrated its funding is
CATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
65% 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 CATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 82% · 2019 71% · 2020 64% · 2021 66% · 2022 52% · 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
67% of CATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
73% of CATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICES's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $82k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
CATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICES's revenue grew 41% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding CATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.2M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.9M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$313k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CATHOLIC FAMILY 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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Otsego Senior Apartments · exempt
- Diocese of Kalamazoo · exempt
- Catholic Family Services Nonprofit · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICES: 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 CATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICES?
- CATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICES (Michigan) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,973,917 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN ($1,755,968). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $2,973,917 in grants to CATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICES, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICES?
- UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN is the largest funder on record, with $1,755,968 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CATHOLIC FAMILY 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 17 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