Michigan · Nonprofit
COMMON GROUND
COMMON GROUND (Michigan) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,845,927 to it, the largest being THE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY INC ($1,766,976). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $31M
- Funders on record
- 71
- Grants received
- $4.8M
- Net assets
- $3.9M
What Common Ground does
Mission
With the mission of "helping people move from crisis to hope," Common Ground is dedicated to helping youths, adults and families by providing programs and services in three distinct impact areas: responding to crisis; providing safety and advocacy; and building communities of support where none exist.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Responding to crisis - the agency provides 24-hour crisis intervention and emergency psychiatric services. These services include the following program activities: crisis assessment team; oakland assessment & crisis intervention service; resource and crisis hub; genesee mobile crisis service for genesee county; oakland mobile crisis service for oakland county; crisis intervention & recovery team for oakland county; kevin's law for oakland county; michigan crisis and access line - 988: suicide and crisis lifeline, peer warmline, frontline strong; and behavioral health urgent care.
$22,864,699 spentof which $6,122 as grants$352,453 earned by the program84% of program spendingProviding safety and advocacy - the agency provides shelter and support for adults and victims of crime. These services include the following program activities: victim assistance program; crisis residential unit; and sober support unit.
$3,183,069 spentof which $42,028 as grants$192,657 earned by the program12% of program spendingBuilding communities of support - this includes efforts related to the education of the community on mental health issues. These services include the following program activities: survivors of suicide loss; survivors of homicide loss; all for oxford resiliency center; united resiliency; and rochester hills resiliency center.
$1,334,855 spentof which $15,661 as grants$636 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $27,382,623.
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 $5.3M to $8.2M (+54%).
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 90% · 2018 94% · 2019 91% · 2020 94% · 2021 84% · 2022 93% · 2023 96% · 2024 97% · 2025 93%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of COMMON GROUND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% 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.
Chief executive
Heather Franso
President/CEO
Board chair
Julie Aronica
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $371k → $1.4M.
10 of 71 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 COMMON GROUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 71 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
COMMON GROUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 36% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
79% 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 COMMON GROUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 29% · 2019 27% · 2020 28% · 2021 26% · 2022 25% · 2023 80% — 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
53% of COMMON GROUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
52% of COMMON GROUND's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $842k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
COMMON GROUND is better cushioned than half of the 2,969 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,969 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding COMMON GROUND receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.9M on record — $5.9M federal, $2k state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$3.5M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.5M
- Department of Justice$950k
- (EE) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES$2k
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 COMMON GROUND
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
89% 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 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMON GROUND: 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 COMMON GROUND?
- COMMON GROUND (Michigan) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,845,927 to it, the largest being THE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY INC ($1,766,976). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMON GROUND have?
- IRS filings report 71 organizations giving $4,845,927 in grants to COMMON GROUND, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMON GROUND?
- THE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,766,976 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMON GROUND 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.
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 71 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing