Michigan · Nonprofit
MICHINDOH CONFERENCE CENTER
MICHINDOH CONFERENCE CENTER (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,169 to it, the largest being HILLSDALE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.8M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $55k
- Net assets
- $9.9M
What Michindoh Conference Center does
Mission
Serving over 20,000 guests each year, Michindoh Conference Center ministers spiritually, physically and emotionally to individuals, couples and families through a number of Michindoh sponsored programs designed to draw people into a closer relationship with Jesus Christ. Michindoh also serves the body of Christ through its retreat and conference center ministry, by providing a facility of excellence for God's people to conduct their Kingdom building programs and ministries.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Guest Groups: Accomodations and activites for retreats and meetings of other non-profit organizations. Michindoh provides a responsive Christ-centered environment of excellence by creating strategic opportunities for evangelism, nurturing, and training.
$2,789,757 spent$2,858,874 earned by the program64% of program spendingOutdoor Education: School children participate in a three to five day environmental program September through May. They are taught outdoor living skills, fire and shelter building, survival skills, teamwork, communication, and cooperative learning.
$1,181,090 spent$1,120,585 earned by the program27% of program spendingProgram: Michindoh sponsored programs such as: summer and winter camps for children, couples retreats, and family camps. Our focus is to provide wholesome fun, experience the outdoors, and most importantly how to know Jesus Christ.
$357,078 spent$311,890 earned by the program8% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,327,925.
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 2019 to 2020, from $12M to $12M (−2%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 29% · 2022 19% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
9% of MICHINDOH CONFERENCE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 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
Jeff Knoll
President & CEO
Board chair
Grant Williams
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $25k → $33.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 MICHINDOH CONFERENCE 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
MICHINDOH CONFERENCE CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
55% 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 MICHINDOH CONFERENCE CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
55% of MICHINDOH CONFERENCE 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 $25k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Michigan, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
MICHINDOH CONFERENCE CENTER's revenue grew 47% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,211 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MICHINDOH CONFERENCE 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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Spring Arbor University · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MICHINDOH CONFERENCE CENTER?
- MICHINDOH CONFERENCE CENTER (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,169 to it, the largest being HILLSDALE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MICHINDOH CONFERENCE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $55,169 in grants to MICHINDOH CONFERENCE CENTER, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MICHINDOH CONFERENCE CENTER?
- HILLSDALE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MICHINDOH CONFERENCE 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 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