Mission for Area People
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 383220964
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Muskegon Heights, MI, United States
- Phone
- 231.733.9672
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $700,615
- Expenses
- $667,284
- Assets
- $312,739
- Liabilities
- $15,704
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KRISTEN TURGEON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- JOSHUA REECE (VICE PRESIDENT)
- LADON GUSTAFSON (INTERIM PRESIDENT/SECRETARY)
Highest reported compensation
- KRISTEN TURGEON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $55,988 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Mission for Area People is a faith-based nonprofit serving Muskegon County since 1967. We provide food, clothing, rental & utility help, and medical assistance with dignity, giving a "hand up" to neighbors in need. MAP is a nonprofit, faith-based agency dedicated since 1967 to serving the poor and underserved residents of Muskegon County through our Healthy Choice Food Pantry, a Free Clothing Pantry, rent and utility assistance and financial support for essential medical and dental needs. For 56 years we have provided services with dignity while giving a “hand up” versus a “hand out.” Our agency offers help to our neighbors in need; the low income, unemployed, homeless, and lower income working people of Muskegon County who have an emergency need. our mission.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provide food, transportation, clothing and occupancy assistance to needy individuals in muskegon metropolitan area. Serving meals through supper house, offering food pantry, clothing and transportation using volunteer services providing extraordinary hospitality and dignity.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 82% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 63
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 80.6%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.8%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.47; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.4%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.2% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.1% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 77% of revenue deployed · 80.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $538K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $56K · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 27 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 44/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 42/100.