Michigan · Nonprofit
Hope Gain Center of West Michigan
Hope Gain Center of West Michigan (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $88,805 to it, the largest being HEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY ($63,800). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $165k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $89k
- Net assets
- $15k
What Hope Gain Center of West Michigan does
Mission
To promote the well-being and economic self sufficiency of individuals living with mental illness by providing job training, placement services, and other resources that enable them to gain employment in remote work settings. Through our programs and services, we seek to empower individuals with mental illness to lead fulfilling and productive lives, while also advancing public understanding and awareness of mental health issues.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
We provided mentorship to 30 individuals living with mental illness through our "Hope from Home" program, connecting them with a mentor who supported them in their pursuit of employment.
$126,000 spent86% of program spendingThrough our "Virtual Certify" program, we provided 1500 individuals living with mental illness access to the Google Career Certificate at no cost, as well as job readiness training, resume support, and interview preparation.
$0 spent0% of program spendingThrough our "Lift GR" program, we provided 30 individuals living in Kent County with access to the Google Career certification at no cost, along with job readiness training, job coaching, and resume preparation.
$0 spent0% of program spendingEmpower Minds Community Center Empower Minds Community Center is a welcoming hub severying over 100 peoplen daily dedicated to helping individuals living with mental health challenges build meaningful careers and establish long-lasting stability. It offers remote job training, digital skills development, workforce coaching, peer support, and entrepreneurship opportunities.
$20,000 spent14% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $146,000.
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 $6k to $11k (+83%).
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.
100% of Hope Gain Center of West Michigan’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (54% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Sheri Munsell
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $22k → $10k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 Hope Gain Center of West Michigan’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
Hope Gain Center of West Michigan leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% 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
100% 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 Hope Gain Center of West Michigan.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Hope Gain Center of West Michigan's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k 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
Hope Gain Center of West Michigan has grown faster than half of the 2,276 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,276 employment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Hope Gain Center of West Michigan
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 Hope Gain Center of West Michigan: 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 Hope Gain Center of West Michigan?
- Hope Gain Center of West Michigan (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $88,805 to it, the largest being HEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY ($63,800). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Hope Gain Center of West Michigan have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $88,805 in grants to Hope Gain Center of West Michigan, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Hope Gain Center of West Michigan?
- HEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY is the largest funder on record, with $63,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Hope Gain Center of West Michigan 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 3 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