Michigan · Nonprofit
LIFE REMODELED
LIFE REMODELED (Michigan) receives grants from 86 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,622,264 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($1,287,000). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.8M
- Funders on record
- 86
- Grants received
- $9.6M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Life Remodeled does
Mission
Life Remodeled brings communities and organizations together to help revitalize detroit neighborhoods in an equitable and sustainable way.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Opportunity hubs (dis and anchor detroit) - the durfee innovation society (dis) exists to create substantial and impactful opportunities for detroit children, families and adults to thrive in the areas of youth programs, jobs and community resources while advancing cross-sector collaboration. In 2025 resources were used in renovating "anchor detroit," Life Remodeled's 2nd opportunity hub, located on detroit's east side. These include capital for commencement of construction and community engagement/youth activities, listening sessions, and other activities meant to garner/foster support from the denby community.in 2025, Life Remodeled continued to maintain 100% occupancy of the dis building with nearly 40 tenants who directly served 28,000+ detroiters. The efforts in the denby communities directly led to the acquisition of the anchor detroit building on the city's east side, a building that is currently being rennovated to provide similar services as the dis provides to a separate community of detroiters, along with vital technological youth/community resources that are not provided at the dis.
$1,696,934 spent$1,204,151 earned by the program75% of program spendingSix day project - each year, Life Remodeled mobilizes thousands of volunteers over six days to clear blight and beautify a detroit neighborhood surrounding one of our opportunity hubs. In 2025, the 6dp was held in the denby community. Throughout the process of unifying for a common mission, participants from the city and the suburbs begin to realize how much they respect and need each other which is a catalyst for long-term relationships and partnerships.september 29 - oct 4, 2025, we mobilized over 5,200 volunteers to clear blight on 270 blocks. We recycled 373 tires, and hauled 960 cubic yards of trash and 1,200 cubic yards of brush (that's 1,080 pickup truck loads of debris or a 12" x 12" pile that is 11 miles long!) we ended 2025's 6dp with a community resource fair held on the anchor detroit campus to introduce ourselves and provide assistance to over 350 denby community residents
$181,006 spent8% of program spendingYouth engagement - Life Remodeled has seen a direct link between engagement from students and families in the neighborhoods we serve equating to success of the programs at the dis. Therefore, we continue to engage with the students, parents, staff and teachers at durfee elementary-middle and central high school in order to reach our goals of helping the schools increase attendance as well as improve math and reading scores.in 2025, Life Remodeled continued to strengthen youth engagement efforts in detroit. Throughout the year, we supported students at durfee and central through a variety of summer, back-to-school, and after-school programs, including career vision day, a week-long back-to-school kickoff event, and field day. We also welcomed more than 1,500 youth and family members to our monthly lit fridays and other community-centered events, such as career vision day, community fairs, and an annual holiday celebration.a major milestone in 2025 was the launch of the future first program, an after-school initiative that leverages technology and esports to help bridge the digital divide while exposing students to college and career pathways. Additionally, Life Remodeled continued…
$158,381 spent7% of program spendingLife Remodeled continued focus on community engagement. In the durfee and denby communities this included hosting events such as our annual summer block party.
$226,258 spent10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,262,579.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $12M to $19M (+58%).
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.
61% of LIFE REMODELED’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
Diallo Smith
CEO
Board chair
Chuck Binkowski
Chairman of the board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $289k → $2.1M.
21 of 86 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 REMODELED’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 86 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
LIFE REMODELED has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
68% 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 REMODELED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 17% · 2018 30% · 2019 34% · 2020 34% · 2021 23% · 2022 28% · 2023 53% — growing more concentrated.
“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
35% of LIFE REMODELED's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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 REMODELED's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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 REMODELED runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like LIFE REMODELED
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 1 related entity
- Life Remodeled Title Holding Corporation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LIFE REMODELED?
- LIFE REMODELED (Michigan) receives grants from 86 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,622,264 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($1,287,000). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIFE REMODELED have?
- IRS filings report 86 organizations giving $9,622,264 in grants to LIFE REMODELED, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIFE REMODELED?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,287,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIFE REMODELED 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 86 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing