Michigan · Nonprofit
Shelter Inc dba Hope Shores Alliance
Shelter Inc dba Hope Shores Alliance (Michigan) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $807,901 to it, the largest being Womens Resource Center of Northern Michigan Inc ($549,790). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $808k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Shelter Inc dba Hope Shores Alliance does
Mission
Hope Shores Alliance is a community supported human service organization dedicated to assisting victims/survivors and their families in ending domestic and sexual violence and discrimination in their lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
4a. Domestic Violence: To ensure domestic violence primary and secondary victim support and advocacy services remain available and accessible. To enhance and sustain victim services through systems change and community coordinated response throughout the service area as well as state and national systems/social change opportunities focused on the dynamics and root causes of domestic violence. Hope Shores Alliance provided hotline help and support to 635 people, 3812 emergency shelter bed-nights, safe shelter to 99 survivors, 3416 instances of supportive advocacy and listening to 426 survivors, 351 instances to 158 survivors of legal advocacy and court accompaniment, 357 hours or counseling, and 33 instances of childrens activities and childcare.
$1,414,379 spent59% of program spendingSexual Assault: To increase access and availability of primary and secondary victim immediate response as well as historical post-trauma advocacy and support through direct services, building and sustaining community coordinated capacity as well as local, state, and national social/systems change focused on the dynamics and root causes of sexual assault. The agency has two sexual assault response teams SART that provide 24/7/365 per year sexual assault advocacy through the collaborative SART team of prosecuting attorney, law enforcement and hospital staff on each team providing a trauma-informed response to rape victims. In fiscal year 2025 our advocates provided 30 SART calls with 37.25 hours of supportive advocacy for rape victims in emergency rooms.
$448,026 spent19% of program spendingSupportive Housing: To provide access to long-term safe, affordable housing for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault and their dependent children. Additionally, the program provides advocacy, support and education focused on assisting victims in transitioning from homelessness to permanent housing through 24 months of transitional supportive housing assistance and support. For the fiscal year ending September 30, 2025, Hope Shores Alliance provided transitional supportive housing to 16 adults and 38 children.
$443,555 spent18% of program spendingPrevention: To...The purpose of the DELTA AHEAD program is to decrease risk factors and increase protective factors related to intimate partner violence. Hope Shores Alliance, through the DELTA AHEAD program and in partnership with the Michigan Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence will address: 1 Intimate partner violence, 2 Social determinants of health and 3 Health equity
$105,273 spent4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,411,233.
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 2022 to 2023, from $790k to $1.2M (+58%).
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 71% · 2018 76% · 2019 76% · 2020 80% · 2021 83% · 2022 77% · 2023 63% · 2024 68% · 2025 71%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of Shelter Inc dba Hope Shores Alliance’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. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $3k → $130k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 Shelter Inc dba Hope Shores Alliance’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
Shelter Inc dba Hope Shores Alliance leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 Shelter Inc dba Hope Shores Alliance.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 63% · 2019 93% · 2020 68% · 2021 94% · 2022 88% · 2023 81% — 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
67% of Shelter Inc dba Hope Shores Alliance's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
97% of Shelter Inc dba Hope Shores Alliance's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k 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
Shelter Inc dba Hope Shores Alliance has grown faster than half of the 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Shelter Inc dba Hope Shores Alliance receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.1M on record.
- Department of Justice$2.1M
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 Shelter Inc dba Hope Shores Alliance
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Shelter Inc dba Hope Shores Alliance?
- Shelter Inc dba Hope Shores Alliance (Michigan) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $807,901 to it, the largest being Womens Resource Center of Northern Michigan Inc ($549,790). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Shelter Inc dba Hope Shores Alliance have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $807,901 in grants to Shelter Inc dba Hope Shores Alliance, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Shelter Inc dba Hope Shores Alliance?
- Womens Resource Center of Northern Michigan Inc is the largest funder on record, with $549,790 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Shelter Inc dba Hope Shores Alliance 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 9 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