Michigan · Nonprofit
FRESH START CENTER
FRESH START CENTER (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $849,225 to it, the largest being DETROIT CHESED PROJECT ($537,555). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $722k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $849k
- Net assets
- $-425036
What Fresh Start Center does
Mission
As a religious organization, the purpose of the organization is to help members of the orthodox jewish community in michigan and elsewhere to overcome emotional and mental health struggles, originating from unresolved childhood issues, trauma,abuse and other issues. The orthodox jewish community is insular and culturally unique and as such requires a unique approach in dealing with mental health related struggles.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Our program is the actual provision to those suffering from mental health issues. The goal is to deliver a wide variety of services to support individuals and families impacted by mental health struggles. This includes retreats, parenting workshops and referral networks to mental health professionals. The flagship program is called the fresh start retreat. It is an intensive 7 day retreat designed for men and women who want to understand, process and heal from unresolved trauma, neglect and abuse. This is a program that does not prescribe medicine.
$462,253 spent$288,819 earned by the program98% of program spendingThis program involves educating the public about trauma and mental health, thereby eliminating stigma, labels and prejudice. The organization's program will include community lectures, support groups and published materials. Promoting healing and recovery within the orthodox community, including schools and synagogues, through education and training. The training includes educating teachers and school administrators, training of mental health professionals and clergy in the community.
$8,002 spent$5,000 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $470,255.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $153k to $224k (+47%).
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.
60% of FRESH START CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 FRESH START CENTER’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
FRESH START CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 FRESH START CENTER.
“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
96% of FRESH START CENTER's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $287k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
FRESH START CENTER has grown faster than three-quarters of the 12,816 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like FRESH START CENTER
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
57% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRESH START CENTER: 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 FRESH START CENTER?
- FRESH START CENTER (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $849,225 to it, the largest being DETROIT CHESED PROJECT ($537,555). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRESH START CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $849,225 in grants to FRESH START CENTER, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRESH START CENTER?
- DETROIT CHESED PROJECT is the largest funder on record, with $537,555 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRESH START CENTER 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 4 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