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Michigan Christian Study Center
Michigan Christian Study Center (Michigan) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $968,214 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($487,510). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $238k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $968k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Michigan Christian Study Center does
Mission
To enrich the University of Michigan by providing a place of authentic community that connects Christian faith and academic life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
We provide a place of Christian hospitality for students and faculty at the University, sponsoring a variety of activities, including social gatherings, book clubs, academic courses, faculty forums and public lectures. In the 6 months ended 6-30-25, we hosted our Friday lunches serving 1,000 lunches and hearing 14 speakers. We hosted 7 public events with more than 300 attendees. We held four faculty events and hosted thirty students in discussion groups and classes. In addition, we recorded an average of 300 student visits per week to use the space for studying and socializing.
$135,223 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $135,223.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $170k to $2.4M (+1316%).
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.
98% of Michigan Christian Study Center’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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
Richard Ostrander
Executive Director
Board chair
David Hazelton
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
8 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 Michigan Christian Study Center’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 Christian Study Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 Christian Study Center.
“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
95% of Michigan Christian Study Center'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. Of the $44k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Michigan funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $924k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
Michigan Christian Study Center is better cushioned than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Michigan Christian Study Center
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
52% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Michigan Christian Study Center: 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 Christian Study Center?
- Michigan Christian Study Center (Michigan) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $968,214 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($487,510). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Michigan Christian Study Center have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $968,214 in grants to Michigan Christian Study Center, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Michigan Christian Study Center?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $487,510 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Michigan Christian Study Center 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 10 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