Michigan · Nonprofit
HIGHER GROUND ABODES
HIGHER GROUND ABODES (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,831 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ($35,960). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $136k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $55k
- Net assets
- $113k
What Higher Ground Abodes does
Mission
As an inspired group, the organization will journey together with extremely low-income persons who need housing, to acquire and provide home ownership through shared housing such as housing cooperatives, community land trusts, intentional communities, or co- habilitative through strategic housing and land development, education and advocacy to maintain and preserve affordable housing.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
As an inspired group, the organization will journey together with extremely low-income persons who need housing, to acquire and provide home ownership through shared housing such a
$111,981 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $111,981.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 $90k to $113k (+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.
99% of HIGHER GROUND ABODES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (37% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Donna Coulter
President & CEO
Board chair
Sandy Peppers
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $15 → $8k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 HIGHER GROUND ABODES’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
HIGHER GROUND ABODES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 HIGHER GROUND ABODES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 92% · 2023 86% — 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.
Where its funders are
66% of HIGHER GROUND ABODES's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $61 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
HIGHER GROUND ABODES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,980 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,980 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like HIGHER GROUND ABODES
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.
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 HIGHER GROUND ABODES: 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 HIGHER GROUND ABODES?
- HIGHER GROUND ABODES (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,831 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ($35,960). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HIGHER GROUND ABODES have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $54,831 in grants to HIGHER GROUND ABODES, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HIGHER GROUND ABODES?
- UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN is the largest funder on record, with $35,960 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HIGHER GROUND ABODES 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 2024–2025), 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