Michigan · Nonprofit
Childrens Grief Center of the Great Lakes Bay Region
Childrens Grief Center of the Great Lakes Bay Region (Michigan) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $434,610 to it, the largest being MIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($229,601). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $554k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $435k
- Net assets
- $366k
What Childrens Grief Center of the Great Lakes Bay Region does
Mission
Our Mission: Provide a healing environment for children, teens, and their families grieving a death.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Children's Grief Center of the Great Lakes Bay Region provides compassionate, no cost grief support for children and teens ages 4 to 18. Through our grief support programs, we help young people navigate loss with understanding, connection and hope. In 2024, we served more than 700 children and 500 caregivers across Midland, Bay and Saginaw counties, reaching far beyond our original service area: 16 counties in all. Our school-based programs expanded from 40 to 55 schools, providing daytime grief groups that remove barriers such as cost and transportation. Evening peer-support groups were held at our Midland home office, Unity of Bay City, and the MidMichigan Children's Museum in Saginaw, allowing families to participate close to home. Programs were facilitated by trained professionals and volunteers using creative, developmentally appropriate activities such as art, journaling, play and guided discussions to help children process emotions and build coping skills. Our team now includes more than 80 dedicated volunteers and multiple university interns studying counseling and social work. Each contributes to a trauma-informed, supportive environment that empowers grieving…
$248,835 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $248,835.
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 $214k to $386k (+80%).
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: 2020 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Childrens Grief Center of the Great Lakes Bay Region’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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 held at 2 funders, grant income fell $18k → $17k.
8 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 Childrens Grief Center of the Great Lakes Bay Region’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
Childrens Grief Center of the Great Lakes Bay Region leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
82% 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 Childrens Grief Center of the Great Lakes Bay Region.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 47% · 2021 58% · 2022 99% · 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
20% of Childrens Grief Center of the Great Lakes Bay Region's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
76% of Childrens Grief Center of the Great Lakes Bay Region's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $105k that is directly attributable, 74% of it comes from funders outside Michigan, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $330k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
Childrens Grief Center of the Great Lakes Bay Region runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Childrens Grief Center of the Great Lakes Bay Region
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
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
58%
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 Childrens Grief Center of the Great Lakes Bay Region: 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 Childrens Grief Center of the Great Lakes Bay Region?
- Childrens Grief Center of the Great Lakes Bay Region (Michigan) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $434,610 to it, the largest being MIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($229,601). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Childrens Grief Center of the Great Lakes Bay Region have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $434,610 in grants to Childrens Grief Center of the Great Lakes Bay Region, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Childrens Grief Center of the Great Lakes Bay Region?
- MIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $229,601 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Childrens Grief Center of the Great Lakes Bay Region 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 14 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