Michigan · Nonprofit
FENTON CENTER OF HOPE
FENTON CENTER OF HOPE (Michigan) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $279,486 to it, the largest being KINGDOM TREASURE MINISTRIES INC ($74,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $279k
- Net assets
- $509k
What Fenton Center of Hope does
Mission
We operate a large community free choice market food pantry. This program gives residents the opportunity to shop for the items they are in need of. Our team of personal shoppers and mentors look for ways to provide a sense of comfort and hope, as they do their shopping in dignity. We strongly believe in the client choice model in that it maintains dignity and respect to residents we serve. We have a team of over 120 volunteers with a variety of God given gifts and talents and they are honored to be able to assist residents in crisis move forward. We operate a large parenting program that provides mom's the material goods for their children. Each caregiver, whether mom, dad or grand parents are assigned training modules by their assigned mentor, this specific attention to building long term success is a cornerstone of the program. In addition we offer classes, group studies and Griefshare groups.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community Free Choice Client Market. On average residents we served an average of 125 families each week. These residents left our facility with a renewed sense of hope and purpose and more than a full cart of groceries they chose. This program also has a focus on assisting hundreds of households with complete Thanksgiving dinners, emergency food bags, food assistance for the homeless and partners with law enforcement in their efforts to assist neighboring communities.
$107,500 spentof which $45,000 as grants28% of program spendingParenting Program/Baby Closet We are operating a large baby closet that provides everything a caregiver would use for newborn children up through size 5T. We have a team of volunteers that hand checks items before making them available for residents. The entire room is sorted and organized to ensure a positive shopping experience for residents in need. In addition to material goods this program also provides monthly life skills educational training to help residents move forward with success and sustainability. The training modules are also paired with mentors from our team to help determine what caregivers can use and potential other needs from the household and family. By taking the time to build a relationship and trust we are able to better understand the underlying root causes of needs that are holding caregivers back from success.
$9,190 spent2% of program spendingThanksgiving Outreach We conduct a annual distribution of complete Thanksgiving Baskets, providing food and items to families in need and crisis within our service area. We also partner with local law enforcement, couselors, and general residents that provide us family names that they know would benefit from the basket. We are able to provide this program of excellence with alot of pre planning and preparation and using our team of approximately 120 dedicated volunteers. In 2025 we assisted over 300 households and additional residents that obtained other related assistance for various needs.
$12,285 spent3% of program spendingExpenses for programs provided cross allocated to the various programs
$249,546 spent66% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $378,521.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2024 to 2025, from $57k to $509k (+793%).
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.
100% of FENTON CENTER OF HOPE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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
Robert Strygulec
Executive Director
Board chair
Jodi Morgan
Board Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $5k → $33k.
6 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 FENTON CENTER OF HOPE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 17 of 20 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
FENTON CENTER OF HOPE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
78% 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 FENTON CENTER OF HOPE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 43% · 2021 82% · 2022 28% · 2023 45% — 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
14% of FENTON CENTER OF HOPE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
FENTON CENTER OF HOPE draws 60% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $91k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
FENTON CENTER OF HOPE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FENTON CENTER OF HOPE
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
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 FENTON CENTER OF HOPE: 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 FENTON CENTER OF HOPE?
- FENTON CENTER OF HOPE (Michigan) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $279,486 to it, the largest being KINGDOM TREASURE MINISTRIES INC ($74,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FENTON CENTER OF HOPE have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $279,486 in grants to FENTON CENTER OF HOPE, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FENTON CENTER OF HOPE?
- KINGDOM TREASURE MINISTRIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $74,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FENTON CENTER OF HOPE 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 20 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