Michigan · Nonprofit
LAKESHORE CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER
LAKESHORE CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER (Michigan) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $560,495 to it, the largest being NATIONAL CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE INC ($386,363). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $644k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $560k
- Net assets
- $585k
What Lakeshore Childrens Advocacy Center does
Mission
To provide a safe, nuturing place for children at risk of abuse or neglect and to strentghen families through prevention, advocacy and other programs driven by community neeeds, primarily in the manistee county area.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provide child acvocacy services through support/grants of program service participants
$382,986 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $382,986.
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 2024 to 2025, from $443k to $592k (+33%).
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 80% · 2022 75% · 2023 79% · 2024 75% · 2025 62%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of LAKESHORE CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
Megan Mccarthy
Executive director
Board chair
Julie Mueller
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $25k → $159k.
6 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 LAKESHORE CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 12 of 13 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
LAKESHORE CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 85%; 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 LAKESHORE CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 80% · 2021 58% · 2022 93% · 2023 68% — 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
40% of LAKESHORE CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 38% 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
LAKESHORE CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $111k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
LAKESHORE CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LAKESHORE CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LAKESHORE CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER?
- LAKESHORE CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER (Michigan) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $560,495 to it, the largest being NATIONAL CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE INC ($386,363). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LAKESHORE CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $560,495 in grants to LAKESHORE CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LAKESHORE CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER?
- NATIONAL CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE INC is the largest funder on record, with $386,363 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAKESHORE CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 13 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