Michigan · Nonprofit
LIFE REMODELED
LIFE REMODELED (Michigan) receives grants from 85 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,514,751 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($1,287,000). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
LIFE REMODELED runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,969 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,969 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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 Jamie & Denise Jacob Family Foundationshared funderslocal
- The Patrice K Aaron Family Foundationportfolio match
- Say Detroitportfolio match
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.
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.
75% 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 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
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 85 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 85 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 14% 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
80% 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. $4.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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.
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. Your 85 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Jamie & Denise Jacob Family Foundationshared funderslocalMI · backs 45 organizations that share your funders · funds 61 organizations near you
- The Patrice K Aaron Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Say Detroitportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Orsa Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Impact100 Detroit Impact100 Metro Detroitportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elevate Energyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ralph L & Winifred E Polk Foundationshared fundersMI · backs 32 organizations that share your funders
- Elizabeth Allan & Warren Shelden Fundshared fundersMI · backs 33 organizations that share your funders
- McGregor Fundshared funderslocalMI · backs 83 organizations that share your funders · funds 119 organizations near you
- Deroy Testamentary Foundationshared funderslocalMI · backs 45 organizations that share your funders · funds 64 organizations near you
- Max M & Marjorie S Fisher Foundation Incshared fundersMI · backs 54 organizations that share your funders
- Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorialshared funderslocalMI · backs 40 organizations that share your funders · funds 79 organizations near you
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 REMODELED
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIFE REMODELED: 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 REMODELED?
- LIFE REMODELED (Michigan) receives grants from 85 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,514,751 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 85 organizations giving $9,514,751 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 85funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing