Michigan · Nonprofit
LIFE CHALLENGE OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN
LIFE CHALLENGE OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN (Michigan) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $477,182 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($160,000). 6 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
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $477k
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Life Challenge of Southeastern Michigan does
Mission
Life Challenge of Southeastern Michigan provides up to a one year residential christian growth program for men and women with life controlling problems.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Life challenge ministers to persons seeking freedom from life controlling problems and other destructive behaviors. During 2024, we continued to offer our 90 day and year-long residential programs for men. Participants receive education and ged preparation if applicable, as well as bible study for application to daily living. Other program activities and work projects serve to foster discipline and achievement. Follow-up is provided to encourage and support program graduates in their recovery and acceptance into society. Participants who have often been circumvented by traditional religion are presented with the opportunity to find new faith in jesus christ. Life challenge applied for certification by the commission on accreditation of rehabilitation facilities (carf), and we received our certification in early 2025. Carf is an international, independent, non-profit accreditor of health and human services. Carf's mission is to promote quality and value of services toward the enhancing of human lives and optimal outcomes. To be carf certified is the gold standard in mental health services. With over two thousand compliance mandates (client care, staff training, financial…
$1,031,139 spentof which $10,412 as grants$60,711 earned by the program86% of program spendingThe life challenge out-patient services substance use disorder program is licensed with the state of michigan. The program offers individual, group and family counseling, including intake assessment and treatment plans. We are hippa compliant and work with licensed counselors and social workers. Many of the participants in the life challenge programs were served by our counseling department during 2024.
$170,336 spent$199,115 earned by the program14% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,201,475.
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 2019 to 2020, from $1.1M to $1.4M (+27%).
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: 2020 3% · 2021 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of LIFE CHALLENGE OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $10k → $41k.
6 of 12 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.
From the IRS filings of LIFE CHALLENGE OF SOUTHEASTERN 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
LIFE CHALLENGE OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
91% 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 LIFE CHALLENGE OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 70% · 2019 91% · 2020 36% · 2021 36% · 2022 41% · 2023 61% — 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
63% of LIFE CHALLENGE OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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 LIFE CHALLENGE OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN'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 $87k that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $390k 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
LIFE CHALLENGE OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like LIFE CHALLENGE OF SOUTHEASTERN 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.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LIFE CHALLENGE OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN?
- LIFE CHALLENGE OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN (Michigan) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $477,182 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($160,000). 6 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 LIFE CHALLENGE OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $477,182 in grants to LIFE CHALLENGE OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIFE CHALLENGE OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $160,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIFE CHALLENGE OF SOUTHEASTERN 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.
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 12 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