Michigan · Nonprofit
MICHAEL'S PLACE
MICHAEL'S PLACE (Michigan) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,484,651 to it, the largest being The Broad Family Foundation ($238,500). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $905k
- Funders on record
- 43
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $823k
What Michael's Place does
Mission
Provides support and advocacy for grieving children, teens and families and increases community awareness.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Michael's Place is proud to report that this year, we welcomed nearly 300 new participants, experienced a 41% increase in program attendance, assisted schools through their loss of students or faculty/staff, provided grief support to nearly 5,000 individuals across 19 counties in northern michigan, and established a new partnership with northern michigan peer network.we provided in-school support groups to 16 schools to nearly 1000 students. Children's grief is unique, and grieving children, if left unsupported, will become grieving adults.we launched five new support groups and workshops, including adult loss of parent support groups, men's gatherings, bereaved spouse support group, and mindfulness and grief groups.our team of 185 volunteers contributed 2,700 hours of service this year, including 14 newly trained facilitators who will provide direct grief support to the bereaved in our region.
$651,483 spent$40,417 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $651,483.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $794k to $994k (+25%).
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: 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 17% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of MICHAEL'S PLACE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
Melinda Buell
CEO/executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $60k → $276k.
10 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 MICHAEL'S PLACE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 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
MICHAEL'S PLACE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% 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
41% 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 MICHAEL'S PLACE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 32% · 2019 49% · 2020 37% · 2021 22% · 2022 33% · 2023 18% — 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
52% of MICHAEL'S PLACE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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
77% of MICHAEL'S PLACE's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $328k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
MICHAEL'S PLACE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MICHAEL'S PLACE
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 MICHAEL'S PLACE: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MICHAEL'S PLACE?
- MICHAEL'S PLACE (Michigan) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,484,651 to it, the largest being The Broad Family Foundation ($238,500). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MICHAEL'S PLACE have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $1,484,651 in grants to MICHAEL'S PLACE, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MICHAEL'S PLACE?
- The Broad Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $238,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MICHAEL'S PLACE 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 43 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