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LUTHERAN HOMES OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION

LUTHERAN HOMES OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,194 to it, the largest being Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$1.6M
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$40k
Net assets
$12M
0/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Lutheran Homes of Michigan Foundation does

Mission

Motivated by christ's love, we engage people as they experience and embrace their god-given potential.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Support and complement the christian, lutheran mission and ministry of lutheran homes of michigan, inc. And its related organizations and lutheran child & family service of michigan, inc. Through the solicitation, receipt, and disbursement of philanthropic and charitable funds collected on behalf of services and programs associated with lutheran homes of michigan, inc., dba wellspring lutheran services and lutheran child & family service of michigan, inc. Dba wellspring lutheran services.

    $205,552 spentof which $199,102 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $205,552.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($949k) Expenses 100 ($539k) Net assets 100 ($5.1M)2018 Revenue 92 ($877k) Expenses 89 ($480k) Net assets 102 ($5.1M)2019 Revenue 94 ($896k) Expenses 145 ($781k) Net assets 117 ($5.9M)2020 Revenue 438 ($4.2M) Expenses 58 ($313k) Net assets 202 ($10M)2021 Revenue 298 ($2.8M) Expenses 76 ($410k) Net assets 253 ($13M)2022 Revenue 83 ($788k) Expenses 593 ($3.2M) Net assets 184 ($9.3M)2023 Revenue 124 ($1.2M) Expenses 21 ($116k) Net assets 217 ($11M)2024 Revenue 166 ($1.6M) Expenses 48 ($257k) Net assets 242 ($12M)
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Revenue (166)Expenses (48)Net assets (242)Peer revenue range

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 $6.3M to $10M (+64%).

$5.4M
$5.4M
$6.3M
$10M
$13M
$9.3M
$11M
$12M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

76% of LUTHERAN HOMES OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,214 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$410k
’17
$397k
’18
$115k
’19
$3.8M
’20
$2.4M
’21
−$2.4M
’22
$1.1M
’23
$1.3M
’24
115
months of
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

David M Gehm

President & CEO

Board chair

Matt Resch

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed724242221191816
Joined·+17+2+0+0+0+0+3
No longer listed·0221215
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

4 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 LUTHERAN HOMES OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION’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

LUTHERAN HOMES OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

100% 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 LUTHERAN HOMES OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION.

37%
largest funder
88%
top three
~3
effective funders

“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.

Where its funders are

100% of LUTHERAN HOMES OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LUTHERAN HOMES OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,978 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.

Operating margin84% · top quartile
Months of reserve114.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,978 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like LUTHERAN HOMES OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 20%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MI

Part of a family of 10 related entities

  • Lutheran Homes of Michigan Inc · exempt
  • Project Compassion Health · exempt
  • Lutheran Home Care Agency Inc · exempt
  • Lutheran Home Care Personal Assistance · exempt
  • Lutheran Child & Family Service of Michigan Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds LUTHERAN HOMES OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION?
LUTHERAN HOMES OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,194 to it, the largest being Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does LUTHERAN HOMES OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $40,194 in grants to LUTHERAN HOMES OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of LUTHERAN HOMES OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION?
Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LUTHERAN HOMES OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION 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 4 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