Michigan · Nonprofit
LAHC - LEADERS ADVANCING AND HELPING COMMUNITIES
LAHC - LEADERS ADVANCING AND HELPING COMMUNITIES (Michigan) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,625,207 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ($3,300,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.6M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $8.6M
- Net assets
- $6.9M
What Lahc - Leaders Advancing and Helping Communities does
Mission
To empower communities, one family at a time, by advancing the educational, social, health and economic well-being of southeast michigan residents.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Healthy living program is focused on empowering adults,children and families in underserved communities to take control of their own health. Through a combination of cooking and fitness classes and handson nutritional content, program participants learn how diet and exercise directly impact their health. Our healthy living program serves early childhood centers, elementary schools, and local federally qualifying health clinics, helping a wide range of community members.
$801,678 spent33% of program spendingSubstance use prevention program: the program discourages the use of alcohol, tobacco, drug use, and violence among middle and high school youth by addressing the social and psychological factors that cause people to begin these dangerous and unhealthy behaviors. Lahc's substance abuse program offers training on how to properly administer this lifesaving nasal spray that can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose. Gambling prevention program: the program aims to prevent problem gambling among teens and young adults by developing essential knowledge and key skills to avoid falling into the trap of gambling addiction. The course particularly focuses on improving problem solving and decision making skills. The lessons are fun and engaging, including games like wheel of fortune and jeopardy. Intervention referral services our team of certified prevention specialists is on call to help individuals initiate, fortify, and maintain their own pathway to recovery. We provide resources and referrals to treatment centers while integrating each individual's unique needs.
$483,307 spent20% of program spendingSocial services: lahc provides an array of social services such as food vouchers, rent, mortage and utilities asssitance, holiday meals, back to school backpack distribution and basic necessities. Nurturing parenting program: this community based program aims to help parents raise happy, healthy, welladjusted children. Topics include being a good role model for your children, parental monitoring, appropriate discipline, how to spot signs of substance abuse, how to build your child's selfworth, and much more. Developmental disabilities & autism services: pathways empowers youth with developmental disabilities, autism spectrum disorder and related conditions on their journey to independence as a young adult. An emphasis is placed in assisting youth to develop life skills necessary for community integration and lifelong success based on their needs. Youth will develop social & communication skills to promote vocational readiness, leisure enrichment and overall health. Mental health services: blooming minds a recreational therapy program utilizing evidencebased interventions to promote mental wellness through improving physical, cognitive, social, emotional, and spiritual functioning.…
$460,125 spent19% of program spendingScholarship program: lahc is proud and privileged to be recognized as a leading advocate of higher education and to have the distinction of offering one of the largest scholarship assistance programs in the area. Throughout the past thirty two years, lahc has awarded nearly 2 million dollars in academic scholarships to area students. Youth leadership bridge to college program (ylbtcp): an innovative solution to equip high school youth with invaluable 21st century skills, the ylbtcp provides various seminars and activities that are focused on leadership and life skills, job readiness, college access education, financial literacy, educational and career goal setting, strategic planning as well as empowering them to make a difference in their communities. Digital literacy program: these courses are designed to help adults learn valuable computer and technology skills needed in today's workforce. Topics include navigating the google suite, developing an online profile, managing linked in, instagram, and facebook profiles, as well as practicing online safety. Icode program: this unique handson steam education experience is geared towards youth ages 6-15. This program aims to equip…
$678,740 spentof which $40,000 as grants28% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,423,850.
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 2023 to 2024, from $5.2M to $7.3M (+41%).
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: 2018 33% · 2019 43% · 2020 45% · 2021 58% · 2022 45% · 2023 59% · 2024 54%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of LAHC - LEADERS ADVANCING AND HELPING COMMUNITIES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
Wassim Mahfouz
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $248k → $804k.
6 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 LAHC - LEADERS ADVANCING AND HELPING COMMUNITIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 funders by total. 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
LAHC - LEADERS ADVANCING AND HELPING COMMUNITIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
86% 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 LAHC - LEADERS ADVANCING AND HELPING COMMUNITIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 38% · 2019 45% · 2020 37% · 2021 38% · 2022 28% · 2023 38% — 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
45% of LAHC - LEADERS ADVANCING AND HELPING COMMUNITIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
94% of LAHC - LEADERS ADVANCING AND HELPING COMMUNITIES's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $443k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
LAHC - LEADERS ADVANCING AND HELPING COMMUNITIES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding LAHC - LEADERS ADVANCING AND HELPING COMMUNITIES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.4M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$950k
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$500k
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 LAHC - LEADERS ADVANCING AND HELPING COMMUNITIES
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 LAHC - LEADERS ADVANCING AND HELPING COMMUNITIES: 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 LAHC - LEADERS ADVANCING AND HELPING COMMUNITIES?
- LAHC - LEADERS ADVANCING AND HELPING COMMUNITIES (Michigan) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,625,207 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ($3,300,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LAHC - LEADERS ADVANCING AND HELPING COMMUNITIES have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $8,625,207 in grants to LAHC - LEADERS ADVANCING AND HELPING COMMUNITIES, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LAHC - LEADERS ADVANCING AND HELPING COMMUNITIES?
- UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN is the largest funder on record, with $3,300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAHC - LEADERS ADVANCING AND HELPING COMMUNITIES 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 33 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