Michigan · Nonprofit
SAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC
SAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC (Michigan) receives grants from 78 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,553,009 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($742,909). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 78
- Grants received
- $5.6M
- Net assets
- $5.3M
What Safe Haven Ministries Inc does
Mission
Offers residential and nonresidential services to individuals and families experiencing domestic violence, as well as prevention and education programs to the entire community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Residential services. Between july 1, 2024 and june 30, 2025, safe haven's residential and housing program provided 35,110 nights of safety to adults and children. We served 221 individuals in shelter and 96 in safe transitional housing. The average length of stay in shelter was 86 nights.
$1,534,639 spent$61,252 earned by the program61% of program spendingClient services. Non-residential services to victims of domestic violence and/or human trafficking and their dependants. Safe haven responded to 2,683 unique crisis contacts via phone, web & text chat, walk-ins and mobile advocacy. Individuals receiving trauma-informed case management were engaged in an array of services including: emotional support, legal advocacy, housing advocacy, parenting support, developing healthy coping mechanisms and psychoeducation. 5,690 sessions of case management were provided to 439 individuals in our residential, housing, and nonresidential programs. Safe haven facilitated 8 types of support groups to 165 clients during fiscal year 2025. Safe haven's psychoeducational groups included children's programming; adult dv education group, virtual dv education, offsite dv education groups, adult advanced ed, homeownership group, and financial empowerment groups.
$578,634 spent$23,095 earned by the program23% of program spendingOur awareness, prevention education and training work: community-wide domestic violence prevention and education initiatives: 412. Community members reached through prevention initiatives: 7,089 students reached through youth violence prevention initiatives: 2,609.
$402,529 spent$16,066 earned by the program16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,515,802.
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 2017 to 2018, from $3.5M to $6.5M (+86%).
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 6% · 2021 18% · 2022 30% · 2023 23% · 2024 30% · 2025 42%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of SAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Rachel Ver Wys
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 38 funders, grant income rose $480k → $576k.
14 of 78 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 SAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 78 funders by total. 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
SAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
50% 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 SAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 40% · 2019 28% · 2020 17% · 2021 25% · 2022 15% · 2023 13% — 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
58% of SAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES 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
95% of SAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES 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. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
SAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC's funding base is broadening — from 16 funders to 38 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding SAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.3M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.7M
- Department of Justice$600k
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 SAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES 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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 SAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC?
- SAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC (Michigan) receives grants from 78 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,553,009 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($742,909). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 78 organizations giving $5,553,009 in grants to SAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC, 52 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $742,909 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES 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.
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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 78 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing