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SAFE PLACE

SAFE PLACE (Michigan) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,626,509 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN ($714,136). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.9M
Funders on record
22
Grants received
$1.6M
Net assets
$1.4M
16/22 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 22%
01What it does

What Safe Place does

Mission

S.a.f.e. Place provides survivor-led preventative and supportive services to promote safety, hope, and healing for all victims of intimate partner violence and sex trafficking.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Shelter operations - to provide a safe environment and access to supportive services to address the needs of victims of domestic violence, sex trafficking, and their families.

    $516,907 spent
    38% of program spending
  2. Client advocacy services - intensive after care provided to individuals prosecuting their assailants. Includes trauma informed counseling services for survivors of domestic violence, sex trafficking and their children, in both individual and group formats.

    $852,531 spent
    62% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,369,438.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($920k) Expenses 100 ($865k) Net assets 100 ($419k)2018 Revenue 110 ($1.0M) Expenses 115 ($991k) Net assets 106 ($443k)2019 Revenue 137 ($1.3M) Expenses 141 ($1.2M) Net assets 119 ($499k)2020 Revenue 133 ($1.2M) Expenses 125 ($1.1M) Net assets 154 ($645k)2021 Revenue 173 ($1.6M) Expenses 158 ($1.4M) Net assets 208 ($870k)2022 Revenue 148 ($1.4M) Expenses 147 ($1.3M) Net assets 229 ($961k)2023 Revenue 179 ($1.7M) Expenses 164 ($1.4M) Net assets 286 ($1.2M)2024 Revenue 173 ($1.6M) Expenses 182 ($1.6M) Net assets 292 ($1.2M)2025 Revenue 208 ($1.9M) Expenses 195 ($1.7M) Net assets 346 ($1.4M)
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Revenue (208)Expenses (195)Net assets (346)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $1.1M to $1.3M (+22%).

$513k
$532k
$699k
$801k
$1.0M
$1.1M
$1.3M
$1.4M
$1.6M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 55% · 2018 63% · 2019 49% · 2020 68% · 2021 68% · 2022 67% · 2023 62% · 2024 71% · 2025 66%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

92% of SAFE PLACE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$55k
’17
$24k
’18
$33k
’19
$142k
’20
$222k
’21
$98k
’22
$234k
’23
$18k
’24
$227k
’25
5.2
months of
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

Ellen Lassiter Collier

CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed131317111314131415
Joined·+2+7+5+2+3+5+4+6
No longer listed·231102635
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $99k → $124k.

6 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 PLACE’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

SAFE PLACE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

71% 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 PLACE.

44%
largest funder
78%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 54% · 2019 47% · 2020 37% · 2021 52% · 2022 41% · 2023 58% — 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

69% of SAFE PLACE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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 SAFE PLACE's grant income comes from Michigan funders.

MI
NY
NE
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $377k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SAFE PLACE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin12% · above the median
Months of reserve5.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding SAFE PLACE receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.4M on record.

Federal$1.4M
grants $1.4Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Justice$931k
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$474k

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 PLACE

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 15%Fundraising 4%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MI

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SAFE PLACE: 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 PLACE?
SAFE PLACE (Michigan) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,626,509 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN ($714,136). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SAFE PLACE have?
IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,626,509 in grants to SAFE PLACE, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SAFE PLACE?
UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN is the largest funder on record, with $714,136 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SAFE PLACE 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 22 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