Michigan · Nonprofit
ELE'S PLACE INC
ELE'S PLACE INC (Michigan) receives grants from 153 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,084,958 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE HOLLAND/ZEELAND AREA INC ($989,469). 97 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 153
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $9.8M
What Ele's Place Inc does
Mission
Ele's place is a nonprofit, community based organization with a mission to create awareness of and support for grieving children and their families. Through peer support group programs, ele's place helps children to cope with the death of a parent, sibling or other close family member or friend.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
During the current year, ele's place served 1,857 family members and children. Ele's place provides regularly scheduled sessions that allow children to interact with peers who have suffered similar loss, and to express their fears, anger, guilt and sadness in a secure and empowering environment. Utilization of music, art, story telling, writing and play promotes the healing process. Clinicians and trained volunteers, supervised by professional clinical staff, facilitate age appropriate groups. Parents or guardians of the participating children are encouraged to attend separate groups concurrently. Young adults may participate in their own group independently. While length of participation is determined by each family, the average period is nine months. Ele's place staff provide grieving families with individual guidance and support upon request. Clinical staff assist parents in helping their children through the grief process with helpful information, advice and referrals to area therapists who can provide child and family counseling.
$3,480,786 spent$21,776 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,480,786.
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 2021 to 2022, from $13M to $11M (−16%).
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: 2020 18% · 2021 17% · 2023 15% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
101% of ELE'S PLACE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Jennifer Wolfe Howard
President & CEO
Board chair
Keri Kittmann
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 44 funders to 61 funders, grant income fell $1.2M → $877k.
26 of 153 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 ELE'S PLACE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 153 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
ELE'S PLACE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 9% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
61% 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 ELE'S PLACE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 11% · 2019 13% · 2020 11% · 2021 48% · 2022 11% · 2023 13% — 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
45% of ELE'S PLACE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
90% of ELE'S PLACE 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. $5.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
ELE'S PLACE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like ELE'S PLACE 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
84% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ELE'S PLACE INC: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ELE'S PLACE INC?
- ELE'S PLACE INC (Michigan) receives grants from 153 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,084,958 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE HOLLAND/ZEELAND AREA INC ($989,469). 97 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ELE'S PLACE INC have?
- IRS filings report 153 organizations giving $11,084,958 in grants to ELE'S PLACE INC, 97 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ELE'S PLACE INC?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE HOLLAND/ZEELAND AREA INC is the largest funder on record, with $989,469 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ELE'S PLACE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 153 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