Michigan · Nonprofit
CRISIS CENTER INC
CRISIS CENTER INC (Michigan) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $589,005 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER CENTRAL MICHIGAN ($216,767). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $589k
- Net assets
- $9.9M
What Crisis Center Inc does
Mission
Listening ear crisis center in mt. Pleasant, michigan, empowers individuals and families across mid and northern michigan by providing quality services and safe, affordable housing. With a history of serving over 30,000 people annually, listening ear is dedicated to listening, supporting, and advocating -- taking people from surviving to thriving.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Listening ear received a federal prevention demostration program grant from dhhs for 99,000 in revenue through expense reimbursement. Listening ear also assumed opeartion of 2 adult foster care homes, with 12 consumers and 21 additional employees resulting in 766,000 in revenue and 640,000 in direct expenses.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Adult foster care: the residential service program served 107 adults with developmental and/or emotional disabilities. All 18 adult foster care homes are licensed by the state of michigan department of licensing and regulatory affairs (lara). Our agency is also accredited by the council of accredidation (coa). Our program promotes and provides opportunities for individuals to increase independence and participate in home, work, and community settings. Residents receive support and training in a residential group home environment from direct service providers who serve as role models, mentors, caregivers and trainers, ensuring a healthy and thriving home setting.
$10,122,405 spent$11,136,990 earned by the program70% of program spendingFoster care: the foster care program provided 6,117 days of services in a family setting to 24 children and young adults in need of short-term or long-term care. Listening ear crisis center is licensed as a child placing agency by the state of michigan. Our program focuses on youth who are struggling in the areas of abuse, delinquency, mental illness, emotional impairment and developmental disabilities. Our foster care workers coordinate all services, unique to each consumer, partnering with the individual, their families, the foster care provider, and the referring agency to keep communication flowing and ensure excellent services and care are provided.
$1,482,833 spent$1,264,503 earned by the program10% of program spendingRental: listening ear crisis center owns and manages 146 apartments and duplexes. Our rental program follows an affordable housing model designed to provide stability for alice households -- asset limited, income contrained and employed individuals and families -- by ensuring their housing and utility costs remain affordable. Listening ear accepts all government housing subsidy vouchers and are committed to providing safe, clean, and well-maintained living environments. Listening ear's occupancy rate is 97%.
$1,089,985 spent$1,349,065 earned by the program8% of program spendingCls - in home help offers support to people with disabilities who are living with their families or in their own homes. In home help consumers decide what, where, who, and how support they need will be provided. Consumers were serviced in their homes or their communities in 4 counties with supports ranging from assistance with housework to personal care to helping consumers get out into the community. Youth grants - the transitional living program offers youth ages 16-21 in the clare/isabella county and saginaw chippewa tribal area the opportunity to achieve independence and develop self-reliance. Older homeless youth can receive guidance and support while living independently in an apartment setting for up to eighteen months while finishing school gaining work experience, and establishing a bank account. The runaway youth services provided services to youth whoare residents of clare, gladwin, and isabella counties. Services include counseling, support groups, 24-hours crisis line and temporary foster care. Crisis center - service people in surrounding counties by providing crisis intervention, information and referral, and after-hour backup for area community mental health…
$1,825,251 spentof which $74,240 as grants$1,234,432 earned by the program13% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $14,520,474.
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 2019 to 2020, from $9.3M to $11M (+23%).
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 88% · 2018 88% · 2019 88% · 2020 78% · 2021 88% · 2022 4% · 2023 5% · 2024 3% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
5% of CRISIS CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Jeff Smith
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income fell $109k → $25k.
4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 CRISIS CENTER INC’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
CRISIS CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
80% 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 CRISIS CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 67% · 2019 58% · 2020 48% · 2021 53% · 2022 40% · 2023 60% — 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
63% of CRISIS CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% 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
97% of CRISIS CENTER INC's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $149k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
CRISIS CENTER INC is better cushioned than half of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding CRISIS CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.4M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$3.4M
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 CRISIS CENTER INC
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
91% 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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CRISIS CENTER INC?
- CRISIS CENTER INC (Michigan) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $589,005 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER CENTRAL MICHIGAN ($216,767). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CRISIS CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $589,005 in grants to CRISIS CENTER INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CRISIS CENTER INC?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER CENTRAL MICHIGAN is the largest funder on record, with $216,767 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CRISIS CENTER INC 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 10 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