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COVENANT LIVING OF THE GREAT LAKES

COVENANT LIVING OF THE GREAT LAKES (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $841 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$21M
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$841
Net assets
$-48348130
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Covenant Living of the Great Lakes does

Mission

(see on schedule o)

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Residential living: the number of persons who benefited from the services we provided for the year ended september 30, 2025 were as follows: there were a total of 244 residents, occupying 185 apartments at 09/30/2025. Residency for the fiscal year totaled 86,520 resident days.

    $8,218,902 spent$10,068,239 earned by the program
    51% of program spending
  2. Skilled nursing: the number of persons who benefited from the services we provided for the year ended september 30, 2025 were as follows: there were a total of 27 skilled care residents at 09/30/2025. Skilled care residency for the fiscal year totaled 10,534 resident days.

    $4,308,730 spent$4,651,049 earned by the program
    27% of program spending
  3. Assisted living: the number of persons who benefited from the services we provided for the year ended september 30, 2025 were as follows: there were a total of 45 assisted living residents at 09/30/2025. Assisted living residency for the fiscal year totaled 16,919 resident days. Assisted living memory support: the number of persons who benefited from the services we provided for the year ended september 30, 2025 were as follows: there were a total of 11 assisted living memory support residents at 09/30/2025. Assisted living memory support residency for the fiscal year totaled 3,702 resident days.

    $3,500,498 spent$4,571,295 earned by the program
    22% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $16,028,130.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($14M) Expenses 100 ($16M)2018 Revenue 102 ($15M) Expenses 103 ($17M)2019 Revenue 106 ($15M) Expenses 105 ($17M)2020 Revenue 118 ($17M) Expenses 116 ($19M)2021 Revenue 127 ($18M) Expenses 135 ($22M)2022 Revenue 126 ($18M) Expenses 124 ($20M)2023 Revenue 130 ($19M) Expenses 135 ($22M)2024 Revenue 139 ($20M) Expenses 138 ($22M)2025 Revenue 146 ($21M) Expenses 141 ($23M)
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Revenue (146)Expenses (141)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $49M to $83M (+69%).

$47M
$47M
$47M
$48M
$46M
$47M
$50M
$49M
$83M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 1% · 2021 6% · 2022 2% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

2% of COVENANT LIVING OF THE GREAT LAKES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 881 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 9 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$1.8M
’17
−$2.1M
’18
−$1.8M
’19
−$1.9M
’20
−$3.5M
’21
−$2.1M
’22
−$3.2M
’23
−$2.5M
’24
−$1.8M
’25
0.3
months of
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

Janet Creaney

Director/chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed292324313229333335
Joined·+5+4+18+12+6+8+4+7
No longer listed·11311119445
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $500 → $65.

Funder
'17
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1

2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 LIVING OF THE GREAT LAKES’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

COVENANT LIVING OF THE GREAT LAKES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 LIVING OF THE GREAT LAKES.

59%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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 COVENANT LIVING OF THE GREAT LAKES'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $841 arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

COVENANT LIVING OF THE GREAT LAKES's revenue grew 46% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−9% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 449 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

70% of spending goes to programs.

Program 70%Management 29%Fundraising 1%

Governance

19
board members
79%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 33 related entities

  • Evangelical Covenant Church · exempt
  • Covenant Living Communities and Services · exempt
  • Covenant Living of Golden Valley · exempt
  • Covenant Health Care Center Inc · exempt
  • Covenant Home · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds COVENANT LIVING OF THE GREAT LAKES?
COVENANT LIVING OF THE GREAT LAKES (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $841 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does COVENANT LIVING OF THE GREAT LAKES have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $841 in grants to COVENANT LIVING OF THE GREAT LAKES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COVENANT LIVING OF THE GREAT LAKES?
NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COVENANT LIVING OF THE GREAT LAKES 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 2 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