Michigan · Nonprofit
LIFE CIRCLES
LIFE CIRCLES (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,890 to it, the largest being PORTER HILLS FOUNDATION ($54,370). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
LIFE CIRCLES holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,000 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,000 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Right Place Inclocal
- Leadingage Minnesota Foundationportfolio match
- Bundles of Loveportfolio match
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.
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 3% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 1% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of LIFE CIRCLES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of LIFE CIRCLES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
How concentrated its funding is
LIFE CIRCLES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
Where its funders are
100% of LIFE CIRCLES's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- The Right Place InclocalMI · funds 850 organizations near you
- Leadingage Minnesota Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bundles of Loveportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Health Net of West Michiganportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Michigan Health Endowment Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Centering Healthcare Institute Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Michigan Center for Rural Healthportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cicoa Aging & In-Home Solutions Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Metropolitan Area Agency on Aging Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Michigan Public Health Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Iowa Health Care Association Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Delta Dental Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like LIFE CIRCLES
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
90% 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
Part of a family of 18 related entities
- United Methodist Retirement Communities Inc · exempt
- Porter Hills Home Health West · exempt
- Porter Hills at Home · exempt
- Life Circles · exempt
- Meadowlark Retirement Community · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIFE CIRCLES: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds LIFE CIRCLES?
- LIFE CIRCLES (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,890 to it, the largest being PORTER HILLS FOUNDATION ($54,370). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIFE CIRCLES have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $100,890 in grants to LIFE CIRCLES.
- Who is the largest funder of LIFE CIRCLES?
- PORTER HILLS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $54,370 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIFE CIRCLES 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing