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St Luke N E W Life Center Inc

St Luke N E W Life Center Inc (Michigan) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,167,212 to it, the largest being CHARLES STEWART MOTT FOUNDATION ($952,348). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.6M
Funders on record
21
Grants received
$3.2M
Net assets
$1.9M
12/21 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 35%
01What it does

What St Luke N E W Life Center Inc does

Mission

Our mission is to offer transformational programs that provide life skills education and workforce training to help individuals become self-sufficient and support their families.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The food pantry provides food to over 1,400 recipients a month. This number includes men and women who are enrolled in the womens program and work program.

    $63,359 spent
    4% of program spending
  2. The center provides life skill training education and counseling to their recipients so that they provide for their families without the need of future assistance. The center also provides food and shelter assistance to their recepients until they are able to meet their needs on their own.

    $481,142 spent$112,126 earned by the program
    29% of program spending
  3. The work program provides men and women the skills and education and work placement they need in order to become self sufficient providers for themselves and families.

    $981,731 spent$228,787 earned by the program
    60% of program spending
  4. The center provides literacy basic skills general education development g.e.d. And test preparation assistance to employees and the general public.

    $118,082 spent
    7% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,644,314.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($1.3M) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets 100 ($260k)2019 Revenue 89 ($1.1M) Expenses 89 ($1.2M) Net assets 101 ($262k)2020 Revenue 103 ($1.3M) Expenses 80 ($1.0M) Net assets 202 ($525k)2021 Revenue 119 ($1.5M) Expenses 85 ($1.1M) Net assets 355 ($922k)2022 Revenue 230 ($2.9M) Expenses 99 ($1.3M) Net assets 1018 ($2.6M)2023 Revenue 107 ($1.4M) Expenses 129 ($1.7M) Net assets 891 ($2.3M)2024 Revenue 142 ($1.8M) Expenses 139 ($1.8M) Net assets 888 ($2.3M)2025 Revenue 124 ($1.6M) Expenses 149 ($1.9M) Net assets 742 ($1.9M)
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Revenue (124)Expenses (149)Net assets (742)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $964k to $2.7M (+180%).

$390k
$364k
$553k
$964k
$2.7M
$2.4M
$2.4M
$2.5M
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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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 1% · 2019 0% · 2020 10% · 2021 1% · 2022 4% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$43k
’18
−$34k
’19
$263k
’20
$396k
’21
$1.6M
’22
−$329k
’23
−$17k
’24
−$380k
’25
4.8
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

Sister Carol Weber

Executive director

Board chair

Richard Ebbott

Board president

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed14141311118119
Joined·+0+5+1+2+3+4+0
No longer listed·0632612
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $254k → $385k.

9 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 St Luke N E W Life Center Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 20 of 21 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

St Luke N E W Life Center Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

41% 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 St Luke N E W Life Center Inc.

30%
largest funder
72%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 48% · 2019 39% · 2020 33% · 2021 38% · 2022 34% · 2023 52% — 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

42% of St Luke N E W Life Center Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

99% of St Luke N E W Life Center Inc's grant income comes from Michigan funders.

MI
PA
TN
FL

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $776k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like St Luke N E W Life 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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 15%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

97%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds St Luke N E W Life Center Inc?
St Luke N E W Life Center Inc (Michigan) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,167,212 to it, the largest being CHARLES STEWART MOTT FOUNDATION ($952,348). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does St Luke N E W Life Center Inc have?
IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $3,167,212 in grants to St Luke N E W Life Center Inc, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of St Luke N E W Life Center Inc?
CHARLES STEWART MOTT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $952,348 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like St Luke N E W Life 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), 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