Michigan · Nonprofit
Lansing Teen Challenge
Lansing Teen Challenge (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $42,948 to it, the largest being LIFE CHALLENGE OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ($42,948). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2017
- $434k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $43k
- Net assets
- $72k
What Lansing Teen Challenge does
Mission
To evangelize people who have life-controlling problems and initiate the discipleship process to the point where the student can function as a Christian in society applying spiritually motivated Biblical principles to relationships in the family, local church, chosen vocation, and the community. Lansing Teen Challenge shall endeavor to help people become mentally sound, emotionally balanced, socially adjusted, physically well and spiritually alive.
As stated on its FY2017 Form 990.
Program
Lansing Teen Challenge ran a residential treatment and Biblical training facility in Lansing, Michigan for men who have addiction problems. It provided food, housing, Biblical training, work experience, and all living essentials for the students who lived there.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2018: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $33k.
From the IRS filings of Lansing Teen Challenge’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Lansing Teen Challenge's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like Lansing Teen Challenge
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Lansing Teen Challenge: 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 Lansing Teen Challenge?
- Lansing Teen Challenge (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $42,948 to it, the largest being LIFE CHALLENGE OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ($42,948). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Lansing Teen Challenge have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $42,948 in grants to Lansing Teen Challenge, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Lansing Teen Challenge?
- LIFE CHALLENGE OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN is the largest funder on record, with $42,948 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Lansing Teen Challenge 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 FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 1 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