Michigan · Nonprofit
COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN
COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN (Michigan) receives grants from 106 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,850,418 to it, the largest being COVENANT HOUSE ($7,658,678). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.6M
- Funders on record
- 106
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Covenant House Michigan does
Mission
Covenant House Michigan is a sanctuary for homeless and at-risk young people, ages 18-24 who have nowhere to go. It is our mission to serve these children with respect and love.Covenant House Michigan builds bridges to hope for young people facing homelessness and survivors of human trafficking, meeting their immediate needs for food, clothing, protection, and medical care. In supporting them to advance their goals of education and employment, covenant house partners with community organizations who share our commitment of unconditional love, absolute respect, and relentless support for each young person who walks through our doors. Our dedicated staff employ a strengths-based, trauma-informed practice model that helps young people discover and develop their power to overcome adversity now and into the future.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Short-term housing and crisis care: the short-term housing and crisis care program provides emergency services, temporary, housing, food, clothing, medical care, mental health services, and legal aid to young people experiencing homelessness or human trafficking. During fiscal year 2025, Covenant House Michigan's caritas center served 309 individual youth in our shelter program in detroit and 133 in our grand rapids shelter. These youth were assisted with job placement (183); enrolling in educational programs (72); and placement in job readiness programs (82). There were 82 youth who accessed the onsite clinic in detroit and 195 received services through the onsite mental health program.
$2,868,509 spentof which $273,851 as grants58% of program spendingRights of passage:covenant house's transitional living programs, often referred to as "rights of passage or rop, are where young people take steps toward independence. Youth live in rop for 18 months, where they tap their potential and plan for the future. Here they build basic life skills and financial literacy, participate in educational and vocational programs, seek employment with long-term advancement and career prospects, and work toward moving into their own safe and stable housing. Our staff support each young person on their journey toward sustainable independence and a hope-filled future.in fiscal year 2025, our transitional living program served 51 young people. Of these youth, 33 remained employed while in the program and 18 obtained a job while in the program, and 9 were enrolled in high school, college or vocational certificate programs.
$1,232,266 spentof which $102,396 as grants25% of program spendingOutreach:our street outreach team in detroit actively seeks out young people experiencing homelessness and other critical needs without any other resources or assistance. The team often assists with critical safety needs by providing transportation to a safe shelter. Young people living on the streets can receive food, water, hygiene kits, clothing, blankets, counseling, and referrals to services such as medical care, employment, and education services.in fiscal year 2025, the street outreach team had contact with 1,143 youth in detroit. Of these youth, 166 accepted chm literature and encouraged to call chm if they or other youth were ever in need of chm services; 102 were placed in chm's caritas center (shelter); 23 were assisted with getting into another shelter or assisted with job leads; 82 were given clothing.
$302,850 spentof which $4,289 as grants6% of program spendingMedical (house of hope):includes medical facilities operated at and maintained by certain covenant house affiliates to provide immediate and ongoing medical attention to individuals receiving services at the site. Public education:covenant house uses a variety of platforms to inform and educate the public, government officials, and young people about youth homelessness and human trafficking. We employ websites, social media, public service announcements, billboards, newsletters, school-based programs, talks, lectures, and peer-to-peer events across our federation to raise awareness of the causes and impacts of youth homelessness and of the signs that a young person might be experiencing homelessness or human trafficking.schools:the covenant house academy charter schools program in michigan provides services to young people including youth from caritas center and rights of passage who need support to complete their education and obtain employment. If youth have been suspended from school, the program provides general educational development classes, job training, and a reduction in the length of the suspension.
$578,171 spentof which $4,441 as grants$568,403 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,981,796.
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 $12M to $14M (+22%).
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 13% · 2018 7% · 2019 13% · 2020 12% · 2021 23% · 2022 19% · 2023 13% · 2024 11% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN’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. 5 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.
Board chair
Kellie Ray
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 42 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $2.0M.
22 of 106 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 106 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
COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
71% 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 COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 79% · 2019 57% · 2020 53% · 2021 19% · 2022 49% · 2023 45% — diversifying over time.
“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
39% of COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN draws 65% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 17 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN's funding base is broadening — from 19 funders to 42 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.0M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$3.0M
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 COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN
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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 31 related entities
- Covenant House · exempt
- Covenant House Alaska · exempt
- Covenant House California · exempt
- Covenant House Florida · exempt
- Covenant House Georgia · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN?
- COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN (Michigan) receives grants from 106 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,850,418 to it, the largest being COVENANT HOUSE ($7,658,678). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN have?
- IRS filings report 106 organizations giving $14,850,418 in grants to COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN, 65 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN?
- COVENANT HOUSE is the largest funder on record, with $7,658,678 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN 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 106 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