Michigan · Nonprofit
LAKELAND HEALTH FOUNDATION BENTON HARBOR/STJOSEPH
LAKELAND HEALTH FOUNDATION BENTON HARBOR/STJOSEPH (Michigan) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,784,299 to it, the largest being BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($1,449,160). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.0M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $36M
What Lakeland Health Foundation Benton Harbor/Stjoseph does
Mission
Improve health, instill humanity and inspire hope.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
In 2024, lory's place was integrated with the filing organization. Lory's place provides hope and strength for every grieving person, offering peer-based support groups, crisis response, staff education, and community outreach for children, adults, and families across southwest michigan and northern indiana. All program activities are now under the filing organization to streamline operations and ensure continued delivery of grief support services.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Lakeland health foundation, benton harbor/ st. Joseph (corewell health foundation southwest michigan) works with individual donors, families, corporations, and area foundations to generate resources through grants, charitable donations and bequests. These resources provide new equipment, expansion and renovation of hospital facilities, support for quality health care services and beyond.
$2,182,707 spentof which $1,017,332 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,182,707.
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 2018 to 2019, from $20M to $22M (+7%).
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.
15% of LAKELAND HEALTH FOUNDATION BENTON HARBOR/STJOSEPH’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
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
Christina Freese Decker
CEO
Board chair
Dana Wales
Director/chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $220k → $70k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $250k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Chicago Community Trust). These are real filings, and they are not money LAKELAND HEALTH FOUNDATION BENTON HARBOR/STJOSEPH raised.
From the IRS filings of LAKELAND HEALTH FOUNDATION BENTON HARBOR/STJOSEPH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 9 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
LAKELAND HEALTH FOUNDATION BENTON HARBOR/STJOSEPH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% 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
89% 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 LAKELAND HEALTH FOUNDATION BENTON HARBOR/STJOSEPH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 92% · 2019 92% · 2020 43% · 2021 54% · 2022 65% · 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.
How long its funders stay
75% of LAKELAND HEALTH FOUNDATION BENTON HARBOR/STJOSEPH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
82% of LAKELAND HEALTH FOUNDATION BENTON HARBOR/STJOSEPH'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 $315k that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
LAKELAND HEALTH FOUNDATION BENTON HARBOR/STJOSEPH runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 8,121 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like LAKELAND HEALTH FOUNDATION BENTON HARBOR/STJOSEPH
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
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
34%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 57 related entities
- Beaumont Medical Transportation Services Inc · exempt
- Bh Grand River Southfield Inc · exempt
- Corewell Health · exempt
- Lakeshore Area Radiation Oncology Center · exempt
- Michigan Mobile Pet Imaging · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LAKELAND HEALTH FOUNDATION BENTON HARBOR/STJOSEPH?
- LAKELAND HEALTH FOUNDATION BENTON HARBOR/STJOSEPH (Michigan) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,784,299 to it, the largest being BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($1,449,160). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LAKELAND HEALTH FOUNDATION BENTON HARBOR/STJOSEPH have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $1,784,299 in grants to LAKELAND HEALTH FOUNDATION BENTON HARBOR/STJOSEPH, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LAKELAND HEALTH FOUNDATION BENTON HARBOR/STJOSEPH?
- BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,449,160 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAKELAND HEALTH FOUNDATION BENTON HARBOR/STJOSEPH 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.
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 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