Michigan · Nonprofit
Designed To Thrive
Designed To Thrive (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $184,000 to it, the largest being THE LLOYD AND MABEL JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($173,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Designed To Thrive runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,660 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,660 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Mojo Foundationshared funders
- Timothy and Eleanor K Broe Family Foundationportfolio match
- Global Service Network Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.
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.
97% of Designed To Thrive’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $54k → $35k.
From the IRS filings of Designed To Thrive’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
Designed To Thrive leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 96% · 2022 95% · 2023 86% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Designed To Thrive's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Mojo Foundationshared fundersMI · backs 13 organizations that share your funders
- Timothy and Eleanor K Broe Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Global Service Network Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Perception Funding Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Christ for All Nationsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Andrew Wommack Ministries Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cecil B Day Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mercy Multiplied America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Deeper Life Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Christian Heritage Ministriesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Glory of Zion International Ministries Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- C&G Emanuel Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Designed To Thrive
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Designed To Thrive: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Designed To Thrive?
- Designed To Thrive (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $184,000 to it, the largest being THE LLOYD AND MABEL JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($173,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Designed To Thrive have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $184,000 in grants to Designed To Thrive, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Designed To Thrive?
- THE LLOYD AND MABEL JOHNSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $173,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Designed To Thrive 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing