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CRAN-HILL MINISTRIES

CRAN-HILL MINISTRIES (Michigan) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,164,474 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($645,400). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$3.6M
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$1.2M
Net assets
$7.6M
12/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Cran-Hill Ministries does

Mission

Cran-hill ranch is devoted to being a ministry through which god is transforming lives into the image of christ through youth camps, family camping, retreats, and adventure experiences.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Youth camp, retreat center, and family camp.

    $2,075,398 spent$1,767,206 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,075,398.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.4M) Expenses 100 ($1.6M) Net assets 100 ($3.0M)2018 Revenue 135 ($1.9M) Expenses 108 ($1.8M) Net assets 105 ($3.2M)2019 Revenue 142 ($2.0M) Expenses 115 ($1.9M) Net assets 109 ($3.3M)2020 Revenue 99 ($1.4M) Expenses 84 ($1.4M) Net assets 110 ($3.3M)2021 Revenue 197 ($2.8M) Expenses 108 ($1.8M) Net assets 143 ($4.3M)2022 Revenue 174 ($2.4M) Expenses 139 ($2.3M) Net assets 149 ($4.5M)2023 Revenue 196 ($2.8M) Expenses 148 ($2.4M) Net assets 161 ($4.9M)2024 Revenue 303 ($4.3M) Expenses 151 ($2.5M) Net assets 221 ($6.7M)2025 Revenue 256 ($3.6M) Expenses 167 ($2.7M) Net assets 251 ($7.6M)
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Revenue (256)Expenses (167)Net assets (251)

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 $5.0M to $6.8M (+36%).

$3.1M
$3.2M
$3.4M
$3.6M
$4.5M
$4.7M
$5.0M
$6.8M
$7.8M
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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: 2021 10% · 2022 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$220k
’17
$145k
’18
$129k
’19
$25k
’20
$1.0M
’21
$178k
’22
$360k
’23
$1.8M
’24
$898k
’25
16
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

Craig Jansen

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed151113121212121211
Joined·+3+3+1+2+4+0+2+2
No longer listed·71224023
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $8k → $53k.

8 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 84% 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 CRAN-HILL MINISTRIES’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

CRAN-HILL MINISTRIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

84% 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 CRAN-HILL MINISTRIES.

55%
largest funder
72%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 32% · 2019 41% · 2020 68% · 2021 43% · 2022 36% · 2023 26% — 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

80% of CRAN-HILL MINISTRIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

84% of CRAN-HILL MINISTRIES'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. Of the $187k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Michigan funders.

MI

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
’22
’23
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $978k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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

Organizations like CRAN-HILL MINISTRIES

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 17%Fundraising 6%

Governance

11
board members
91%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

MI

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Questions and answers

Who funds CRAN-HILL MINISTRIES?
CRAN-HILL MINISTRIES (Michigan) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,164,474 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($645,400). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CRAN-HILL MINISTRIES have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,164,474 in grants to CRAN-HILL MINISTRIES, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CRAN-HILL MINISTRIES?
NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $645,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CRAN-HILL MINISTRIES 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 16 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