Michigan · Nonprofit
MICHIGAN CENTER FOR RURAL HEALTH
MICHIGAN CENTER FOR RURAL HEALTH (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,425,074 to it, the largest being MICHIGAN HEALTH ENDOWMENT FUND ($1,042,221). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.9M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Michigan Center for Rural Health does
Mission
The purpose of the corporation is to develop a coordinated rural health program, to conduct research regarding rural health issues, to assist rural communities in health related areas, and such other purposes as the board shall determine from time to time, in general conformance with the statute authorizing the creation of the corporation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Other program services: includes the transforming clinical practice initiative and safer opioid prescribing practices and data collection.
$2,867,639 spentof which $1,324,996 as grants$244,702 earned by the program43% of program spendingRural community opioid response program
$1,640,298 spent25% of program spendingSmall rural hospital improvement program - provides grant dollars to rural hospitals with 49 or fewer staffed beds to assist with quality improvement activities
$1,367,844 spentof which $1,257,924 as grants21% of program spendingRural health flexibility program
$773,084 spent12% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,648,865.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $898k to $4.2M (+373%).
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: 2017 84% · 2018 90% · 2019 89% · 2020 98% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 96% · 2024 93% · 2025 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of MICHIGAN CENTER FOR RURAL HEALTH’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% 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
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
John Barnas
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $65k → $302k.
From the IRS filings of MICHIGAN CENTER FOR RURAL HEALTH’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
MICHIGAN CENTER FOR RURAL HEALTH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 MICHIGAN CENTER FOR RURAL HEALTH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 63% · 2023 92% — 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.
Where its funders are
73% of MICHIGAN CENTER FOR RURAL HEALTH's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
MICHIGAN CENTER FOR RURAL HEALTH has grown faster than half of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding MICHIGAN CENTER FOR RURAL HEALTH receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $47.2M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$47.2M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$27k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MICHIGAN CENTER FOR RURAL HEALTH
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
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 MICHIGAN CENTER FOR RURAL HEALTH: 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 MICHIGAN CENTER FOR RURAL HEALTH?
- MICHIGAN CENTER FOR RURAL HEALTH (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,425,074 to it, the largest being MICHIGAN HEALTH ENDOWMENT FUND ($1,042,221). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MICHIGAN CENTER FOR RURAL HEALTH have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $1,425,074 in grants to MICHIGAN CENTER FOR RURAL HEALTH, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MICHIGAN CENTER FOR RURAL HEALTH?
- MICHIGAN HEALTH ENDOWMENT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,042,221 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MICHIGAN CENTER FOR RURAL HEALTH 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 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing