Michigan · Nonprofit
THE AVENUE FAMILY NETWORK INC
THE AVENUE FAMILY NETWORK INC (Michigan) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,468,628 to it, the largest being REGION IV AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC (WITH FOSTER GRANDPARENTS PROGRAM) ($1,339,412). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $3.5M
- Net assets
- $458k
What The Avenue Family Network Inc does
Mission
Provide a variety of programs to foster the development of community, family, and individual potential and capabilities which support healthy, self-sufficient, fully functioning lives for children, families, and adults.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Caring connection - benton harbor - provides a safe and inviting daytime environment where adults with special needs such as alzheimer's disease and other illnesses can engage in meaningful and therapeutic activities which help meet their social, emotional, and physical needs. People who attend harbor house are socially engaged and involved in mentally stimulating activities which help to maintain or even improve thinking skills and language abilities.
$516,801 spent$665,610 earned by the program22% of program spendingCaring connection - empowerment center - provides a secure, violence free environment for survivors of intimate partner domestic violence and sexual assault along with their dependent children. Survivors are offered a protective, warm and violence free place to stay, listening ears, support groups, and other resources needed to develop safe, healthy and meaningful lives for themselves and their children.
$815,503 spent$698,965 earned by the program35% of program spendingCaring connection - paw paw - provides a safe and inviting daytime environment where adults with special needs such as alzheimer's disease and other illnesses can engage in meaningful and therapeutic activities which help meet their social, emotional, and physical needs. People who attend harbor house are socially engaged and involved in mentally stimulating activities which help to maintain or even improve thinking skills and language abilities.
$430,926 spent$543,191 earned by the program18% of program spendingWest michigan guardianship.
$578,816 spent$315,153 earned by the program25% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,342,046.
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 2024 to 2025, from $4.4M to $6.7M (+50%).
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 11% · 2021 14% · 2022 7% · 2023 15% · 2024 7% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
21% of THE AVENUE FAMILY NETWORK INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Robin Mcginnis
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $269k → $810k.
5 of 22 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 THE AVENUE FAMILY NETWORK 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
THE AVENUE FAMILY NETWORK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 THE AVENUE FAMILY NETWORK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 56% · 2019 48% · 2020 39% · 2021 53% · 2022 35% · 2023 39% — 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 THE AVENUE FAMILY NETWORK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
96% of THE AVENUE FAMILY NETWORK 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. $844k 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.
Against its field
THE AVENUE FAMILY NETWORK INC's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 14 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding THE AVENUE FAMILY NETWORK INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $206k on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$206k
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 THE AVENUE FAMILY NETWORK 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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE AVENUE FAMILY NETWORK 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 THE AVENUE FAMILY NETWORK INC?
- THE AVENUE FAMILY NETWORK INC (Michigan) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,468,628 to it, the largest being REGION IV AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC (WITH FOSTER GRANDPARENTS PROGRAM) ($1,339,412). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE AVENUE FAMILY NETWORK INC have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $3,468,628 in grants to THE AVENUE FAMILY NETWORK INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE AVENUE FAMILY NETWORK INC?
- REGION IV AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC (WITH FOSTER GRANDPARENTS PROGRAM) is the largest funder on record, with $1,339,412 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE AVENUE FAMILY NETWORK 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 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