Michigan · Nonprofit
GRACE ADVENTURES MINISTRIES
GRACE ADVENTURES MINISTRIES (Michigan) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,165,038 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,643,745). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.2M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $34M
What Grace Adventures Ministries does
Mission
Grace adventures exists to impact people with jesus christ. Our vision is to increase our impact on children, adults, families and communities, through evangelism, discipleship, leadership training and educational opportunities in a quality, year-round christian environment on campus and in the communities we serve.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Grace adventures has developed evangelistic, discipleship, leadership training and educational programs through its camps, retreats, trainings, community worship and family camp. Grace adventures programs provide training essential for the leadership and character development of children, adults, families and the communities they live in. Grace serves approximately 39,000 individuals annually.
$4,627,459 spent$3,740,527 earned by the program70% of program spendingThe shack christian retreat and conference center is designed for individuals, couples, families, churches and organizations to come together, relax, and create new memories in a faith-based environment.
$1,961,322 spent$1,469,873 earned by the program30% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,588,781.
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 2022 to 2023, from $15M to $39M (+153%).
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 9% · 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
27% of GRACE ADVENTURES MINISTRIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Dan Vantimmeren
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $151k → $819k.
7 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 GRACE ADVENTURES MINISTRIES’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
GRACE ADVENTURES MINISTRIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
69% 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 GRACE ADVENTURES MINISTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 45% · 2019 47% · 2020 46% · 2021 68% · 2022 78% · 2023 65% — 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
38% of GRACE ADVENTURES MINISTRIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 87% 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
69% of GRACE ADVENTURES MINISTRIES's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $971k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
GRACE ADVENTURES MINISTRIES is better cushioned than half of the 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like GRACE ADVENTURES MINISTRIES
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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Shack Retreat and Conference Center · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GRACE ADVENTURES MINISTRIES: 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 GRACE ADVENTURES MINISTRIES?
- GRACE ADVENTURES MINISTRIES (Michigan) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,165,038 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,643,745). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GRACE ADVENTURES MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $3,165,038 in grants to GRACE ADVENTURES MINISTRIES, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GRACE ADVENTURES MINISTRIES?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,643,745 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GRACE ADVENTURES MINISTRIES 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 23 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