Michigan · Nonprofit
COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT
COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT (Michigan) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,904,594 to it, the largest being United Way of Midland County ($1,848,700). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $3.9M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Council on Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault does
Mission
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide shelter, one-on-one counseling, support groups and advocacy to survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault in addition, a 24-hour crisis line is operated for victims of these crimes.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The domestic violence program offers comprehensive services to survivors of domestic violence and their families, including crisis intervention, counseling by master's prepared therapists, safety planning, advocacy and referrals, education and support groups, court accompaniment, legal advocacy, 24-hour help line, shelter, transitional supportive housing, and permanent supportive housing. Services to children include crisis and long-term counseling in individual, family, and group modalities. Services also include parent and community education. School programming includes counseling on location and domestic violence prevention programs, utilizing evidence based curriculum, expect respect. Prevention and systems change work through strong law enforcement and court relationships utilizes the nationally recognized blueprint for safety program.
$1,184,819 spentof which $162,801 as grants$47,975 earned by the program44% of program spendingThe sexual assault program offers comprehensive services to primary and secondary survivors, including crisis intervention, counseling by master's prepared therapists, safety planning, advocacy and referrals, education and support groups, court accompaniment, legal advocacy, 24-hour help line, shelter, transitional supportive housing, and permanent supportive housing. Serving both children and adults, crisis and long-term counseling utilize individual, family, and group modalities. Shelterhouse's sexual assault nurse examiner (sane) program provides specialized medical care, forensic evidence collection, crisis counseling and emotional support. School programming includes counseling on location, utilizing evidence based curriculum, including expect respect, safe dates, and structured sensory interventions for traumatized children, adolescents and parents (sitcap). Community education includes the globally recognized start by believing campaign.
$1,217,459 spentof which $6,857 as grants46% of program spendingThe shelterhouse resale shop creates a steady stream of revenue to support the growing demand for programs and services, while offering gently-used, items at a fraction of the original cost to our community. Shelterhouse clients may shop at no charge, through a voucher system, in order to meet the urgent needs of their family. All profits from shelterhouse resale shop go directly to support our urgent and important mission to empower survivors of domestic and sexual violence by providing refuge, hope and healing.
$265,705 spentof which $5,651 as grants$162 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,667,983.
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 2017 to 2018, from $7.9M to $13M (+64%).
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 29% · 2018 9% · 2019 43% · 2020 51% · 2021 58% · 2022 54% · 2023 54% · 2024 64% · 2025 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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
Ellen Lynch
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $350k → $357k.
6 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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
COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
77% 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 COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 40% · 2019 61% · 2020 53% · 2021 63% · 2022 75% · 2023 71% — 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
41% of COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
94% of COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M 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
COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT's funding base is broadening — from 9 funders to 11 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.4M on record.
- Department of Justice$1.1M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$281k
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 COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
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 COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT: 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 COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT?
- COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT (Michigan) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,904,594 to it, the largest being United Way of Midland County ($1,848,700). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $3,904,594 in grants to COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT?
- United Way of Midland County is the largest funder on record, with $1,848,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT 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 33 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