Michigan · Nonprofit
PORTAGE COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER INC
PORTAGE COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER INC (Michigan) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,401,715 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN ($515,743). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $632k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Portage Community Outreach Center Inc does
Mission
We believe all people within the portage community have value and should have the opportunity to improve their quality of life. The portage community outreach center is dedictated to treating all people with respect and dignity. The portage community outreach center will provide leadership in identifying human service needs and coordinating resources to meet those needs by offering accessible programs, volunteer opportunities, education and services to address issues of poverty, health and wellness, conflict resolution, and foster improved self-esteem and self-sufficiency.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Program coordination and development provides advocacy services, health clinics, self help programs, and referrals to other county agencies and services to portage residents
$71,059 spent14% of program spendingSocial development (youth)- provides supplementary educational services, volunteer and recreational opportunities to youths in portage school districts.
$142,140 spent28% of program spendingEmergency assistance- provides limited financial assistance to to individuals with immediate needs (e.g. Food, clothing, shelter, and special holiday activities).
$110,369 spent22% of program spendingFacility usage
$179,383 spent$15,500 earned by the program36% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $502,951.
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.
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 $2.4M to $2.7M (+12%).
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 28% · 2018 19% · 2019 24% · 2020 28% · 2021 17% · 2022 16% · 2023 38% · 2024 13% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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
Chris Buckley
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $102k → $258k.
5 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 PORTAGE COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER INC’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
PORTAGE COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
70% 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 PORTAGE COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 71% · 2019 41% · 2020 40% · 2021 40% · 2022 38% · 2023 28% — 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
78% of PORTAGE COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
94% of PORTAGE COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER INC's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $461k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Organizations like PORTAGE COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER INC
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
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 PORTAGE COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds PORTAGE COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER INC?
- PORTAGE COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER INC (Michigan) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,401,715 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN ($515,743). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PORTAGE COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,401,715 in grants to PORTAGE COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PORTAGE COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER INC?
- UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN is the largest funder on record, with $515,743 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PORTAGE COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER INC 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.
Play a game about who funds Portage Community Outreach Center →
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 21 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