Michigan · Nonprofit
GREAT LAKES BIBLE COLLEGE
GREAT LAKES BIBLE COLLEGE (Michigan) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $911,819 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($400,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.8M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $912k
- Net assets
- $3.4M
What Great Lakes Bible College does
Mission
Great lakes christian college, an institution of higher education affiliated with christian churches/churches of christ, seeks to glorify god by preparing students to be servant-leaders in the church and world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Educational - including two and four year degrees. Main emphasis on biblical studies. 2024-2025 fall semester enrollment was approx. 198 students. 2024-2025 spring semester enrollment was approx. 140 students.
$3,648,690 spentof which $2,379,105 as grants$2,999,145 earned by the program66% of program spendingAuxiliary and support services including cafeteria, bookstore and housing facilities. Student housing was provided for approximately 200 students for the 2024 fall semester and the 2025 spring semester.
$1,887,812 spent$947,198 earned by the program34% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,536,502.
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 2024 to 2025, from $4.3M to $6.0M (+38%).
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: 2017 17% · 2018 21% · 2019 24% · 2020 33% · 2021 38% · 2022 47% · 2023 27% · 2024 22% · 2025 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
54% of GREAT LAKES BIBLE COLLEGE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Matt Wesaw
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $16k → $296k.
5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 GREAT LAKES BIBLE COLLEGE’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
GREAT LAKES BIBLE COLLEGE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
90% 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 GREAT LAKES BIBLE COLLEGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 32% · 2019 44% · 2020 44% · 2021 45% · 2022 68% · 2023 68% — broadly stable.
“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
57% of GREAT LAKES BIBLE COLLEGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
89% of GREAT LAKES BIBLE COLLEGE'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 $98k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from funders outside Michigan, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $813k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
GREAT LAKES BIBLE COLLEGE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding GREAT LAKES BIBLE COLLEGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.3M on record.
- Department of Education$1.3M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like GREAT LAKES BIBLE COLLEGE
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GREAT LAKES BIBLE COLLEGE: 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 GREAT LAKES BIBLE COLLEGE?
- GREAT LAKES BIBLE COLLEGE (Michigan) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $911,819 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($400,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GREAT LAKES BIBLE COLLEGE have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $911,819 in grants to GREAT LAKES BIBLE COLLEGE, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREAT LAKES BIBLE COLLEGE?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREAT LAKES BIBLE COLLEGE 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 11 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