Michigan · Nonprofit
CHRISTNET
CHRISTNET (Michigan) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $575,355 to it, the largest being Wayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc ($493,787). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $172k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $575k
- Net assets
- $151k
What Christnet does
Mission
A shared ministry with over fifty churches from various denominations who help to house and feed the homeless. Our guests receive a safe place to stay over night plus a hot meal meals. We also have a day program open year round where guests are offered food, fellowship, and special assistance. The day center offerings shelter during the day, showers, laundry, and access to community resources.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Day Program - This program opened December 15, 2008. Is it open to the homeless seven days a week. The focus at the Daytime Center is job skill development, and ultimately obtaining stable housing for our guests all the while serving a safe place from the streets. In addition to serving breakfast and lunch, the Daytime Center has clothes washing facilities and showers. In addition to serving the homeless population, our daytime program attracts neighbors who are housed, but in need of food services through our daily hot lunch program.
$236,054 spentof which $68,667 as grants$112,531 earned by the program92% of program spendingEvening Program - Operating for 11 weeks in the winter. Guests are hosted overnight at a partnership church. The church rotates weekly. Overnight stays included a hot meal and fellowship. Our nighttime program operated this year for eleven weeks. Within this short time frame we provided 2,781 safe nights.
$1,129 spent$10,966 earned by the program0% of program spendingTransportation: Guest are driven to and from our host church. During the day guests are also driven to doctors appointments. New this year Christnet owns its own 15 passenger van.
$18,339 spentof which $27,607 as grants$27,607 earned by the program7% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $255,522.
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 2020 to 2021, from $512k to $298k (−42%).
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 60% · 2018 52% · 2019 58% · 2020 49% · 2021 38% · 2022 72% · 2023 66% · 2024 45% · 2025 56%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of CHRISTNET’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $44k → $50k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 CHRISTNET’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
CHRISTNET leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
89% 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 CHRISTNET.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 82% · 2021 100% · 2022 80% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of CHRISTNET's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21k 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
CHRISTNET's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CHRISTNET
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
76% 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 CHRISTNET: 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 CHRISTNET?
- CHRISTNET (Michigan) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $575,355 to it, the largest being Wayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc ($493,787). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHRISTNET have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $575,355 in grants to CHRISTNET, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHRISTNET?
- Wayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc is the largest funder on record, with $493,787 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHRISTNET 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 7 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