Michigan · Nonprofit
MISSION FOR AREA PEOPLE
MISSION FOR AREA PEOPLE (Michigan) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $888,096 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE LAKESHORE ($509,712). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $701k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $888k
- Net assets
- $297k
What Mission for Area People does
Mission
Provide for the needy in the community of greater muskegon, michigan.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provide food, transportation, clothing and occupancy assistance to needy individuals in muskegon metropolitan area. Serving meals through supper house, offering food pantry, clothing and transportation using volunteer services providing extraordinary hospitality and dignity.
$529,152 spent98% of program spendingProvide emergency medical and dental assistance to uninsured or underinsured individuals, while encouraging partnerships among community health facilities.
$8,772 spent2% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $537,924.
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 $57k to $271k (+371%).
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: 2020 4% · 2021 73% · 2022 80% · 2023 19% · 2024 13% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of MISSION FOR AREA PEOPLE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Kristen Turgeon
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $89k → $93k.
6 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 MISSION FOR AREA PEOPLE’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
MISSION FOR AREA PEOPLE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 MISSION FOR AREA PEOPLE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 62% · 2019 56% · 2020 65% · 2021 51% · 2022 76% · 2023 55% — growing more concentrated.
“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
70% of MISSION FOR AREA PEOPLE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
98% of MISSION FOR AREA PEOPLE's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $146k 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
MISSION FOR AREA PEOPLE has grown faster than half of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MISSION FOR AREA PEOPLE
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
81% 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 MISSION FOR AREA PEOPLE: 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 MISSION FOR AREA PEOPLE?
- MISSION FOR AREA PEOPLE (Michigan) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $888,096 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE LAKESHORE ($509,712). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MISSION FOR AREA PEOPLE have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $888,096 in grants to MISSION FOR AREA PEOPLE, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MISSION FOR AREA PEOPLE?
- UNITED WAY OF THE LAKESHORE is the largest funder on record, with $509,712 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MISSION FOR AREA PEOPLE 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 16 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