Michigan · Nonprofit
GRIEVEWELL
GRIEVEWELL (Michigan) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $762,485 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($505,050). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $179k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $762k
- Net assets
- $99k
What Grievewell does
Mission
GrieveWell seeks to build a community that promotes healthy grieving and healing so that adults can grieve well and lead a full life after loss. GrieveWell provides resources and support to adults in grief, as well as those who surround them.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
GrieveWell began the dissolution process in 2025 which involved a significant reduction in service delivery.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Community Education and Awareness - Build greater understanding on the prevalence, challenges and normal responses to grief and how to support those in grief. Provide the opportunity for people to learn together, to have a shared experience and to create community all which can help normalize grief and contribute to healing along the way. Provide online delivery of services for webinars, training, movement series and community meetings. Offerings include: on-line series of understanding grief webinars, Grief in the Holidays webinars, grief yoga classes and kickboxing. Community awareness events include pop ups at local farmer's markets, partnering with other organizations to bring grief awareness events and self-care workshops.
$27,153 spent33% of program spendingOne to One Peer Support - Provide intake interviews, evaluations, professional consultation, client placement and ongoing support. One to One peer support is provided by a trained volunteer who is at least 30 months past their loss to provide compassionate listening. Our peer counselors innately and intimately understand the unique aspects of grief and are matched with a person seeking support who has a similar experience of loss. This service is provided for up to a year to Michigan residents at no cost to the client. In response to COVID-19, these services were adapted to virtual offerings.
$27,153 spent33% of program spendingPeer Counselor and Social Work Intern Training - Provide Interviews and careful selection of peer counselors. Conduct an initial 12 hours of thorough training for peer supporters and counselors as well as ongoing bi-monthly continuing educations (CE) modules for peer counselors. There are two training options: an interactive, virtual training and in-person classroom training. Partner with two local universities to off BSW and MSW social work students the opportunity to intern at GrieveWell. Ther Program Director, a licensed MSW, provides continued and ongoing supervision and support for peer counselors and social work interns on a weekly basis.
$27,234 spent33% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $81,540.
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.
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 $176k to $130k (−26%).
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: 2021 8% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Christy Miller
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $2k → $163k.
5 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% 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 GRIEVEWELL’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
GRIEVEWELL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 GRIEVEWELL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 97% · 2019 97% · 2020 75% · 2021 95% · 2022 97% · 2023 61% — 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
57% of GRIEVEWELL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
93% of GRIEVEWELL'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 $50k that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $713k 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.
Organizations like GRIEVEWELL
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
56% 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 GRIEVEWELL: 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 GRIEVEWELL?
- GRIEVEWELL (Michigan) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $762,485 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($505,050). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GRIEVEWELL have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $762,485 in grants to GRIEVEWELL, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GRIEVEWELL?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $505,050 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GRIEVEWELL 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 9 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