Michigan · Nonprofit
CHANCE FOR LIFE ORGANIZATION INC
CHANCE FOR LIFE ORGANIZATION INC (Michigan) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $278,438 to it, the largest being DETROIT AREA AGENCY ON AGING ($75,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $278k
- Net assets
- $139k
What Chance for Life Organization Inc does
Mission
To transform the mindset of both the incarcerated and formally incarcerated individuals in an effort to reduce recidivism and promote community safety. To assist families with the integration of formerly incarcerated individuals back into the family unit as well as into the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In 2025 chance for life facilitated "re-entry" programs in 4 michigan department of corrections facilities to assist incarcerated individuals preparing for re-entry into society. During the year, over 750 individuals benifitted from various programs to assist inmates and former prisoners during the transition from prison to normal soceity. Furthermore, the organization provided transformational training classes in various locations to approximately 600 individuals. The waiting list to attend these classes increased to 35-40 people. These programs included courses in conflict resolution, job training, coaching and mentorship.
$1,257,799 spent100% of program spendingIn addition to providing life improvement, the organization provided the following services to the community - provided food to 250 families. - provided clothing & hygiene products to over 175 individuals. - provided jobs assistance or work related services to over 1,500 people. - provided 40 scholarships to attend skilled trades and ai/it training.
During 2024, chance for life implemented the soar program for seniors in support of a program funded by the detroit area agency on aging, daaa. This program assists seniors with ged support, immigration assistance & monthly check-ins. In 2025 chance for life provided resources to more than 200 seniors.
To assist convicted criminals in reentering the workforce upon release from prison.
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,257,799.
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 2024 to 2025, from $88k to $235k (+167%).
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 99% · 2018 95% · 2019 55% · 2020 69% · 2021 80% · 2022 60% · 2023 86% · 2024 92% · 2025 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of CHANCE FOR LIFE ORGANIZATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (72% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $21k → $25k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 CHANCE FOR LIFE ORGANIZATION 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
CHANCE FOR LIFE ORGANIZATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 27% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
67% 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 CHANCE FOR LIFE ORGANIZATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 95% · 2021 73% · 2022 45% · 2023 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
25% of CHANCE FOR LIFE ORGANIZATION INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 10% 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
100% of CHANCE FOR LIFE ORGANIZATION 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. $50k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
CHANCE FOR LIFE ORGANIZATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 369 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 369 unclassified nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CHANCE FOR LIFE ORGANIZATION 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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 CHANCE FOR LIFE ORGANIZATION 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 CHANCE FOR LIFE ORGANIZATION INC?
- CHANCE FOR LIFE ORGANIZATION INC (Michigan) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $278,438 to it, the largest being DETROIT AREA AGENCY ON AGING ($75,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHANCE FOR LIFE ORGANIZATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $278,438 in grants to CHANCE FOR LIFE ORGANIZATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHANCE FOR LIFE ORGANIZATION INC?
- DETROIT AREA AGENCY ON AGING is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHANCE FOR LIFE ORGANIZATION 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 10 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