Lakeshore FC

EIN: 92-3599613 · Tax status: 501(c)(3) nonprofit (recently established 2023; no financial detail yet filed on ProPublica)

Overview

Lakeshore Football Club is a youth competitive and recreational soccer organization based in Grand Haven, Michigan (Ottawa County). The club rebranded from its prior identity as “Grand Haven” soccer to “Lakeshore FC” to reflect a broader geographic catchment. The club serves families and players from Holland on the south end of the West Michigan lakeshore corridor up through Muskegon and Ludington to the north, plus eastward into Fruitport, Coopersville, and Allendale. Spring Lake and Ferrysburg, immediately adjacent to Grand Haven, are core service areas.

The club’s program mix includes Premier (top-tier travel), Select (mid-tier travel), Recreational, Director’s Academy (U11/U12 9v9), and Futsal.

Financials

Lakeshore Football Club is a registered 501(c)(3) (ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer, EIN 92-3599613, May 2026). The organization was incorporated in 2023, which is consistent with a recent legal-entity formation (likely the rebrand from Grand Haven Soccer to Lakeshore FC). ProPublica does not yet list filed financial detail (revenue, expenses, total assets), which is consistent with a newly registered 501(c)(3) that has either not yet hit a Form 990 filing threshold or has filed only a 990-N postcard. Cause IQ corroborates the EIN and nonprofit classification but also shows no financial detail.

tax_status: nonprofit is set on the strength of the ProPublica EIN match. FY revenue, expense, and net asset figures will populate once the club’s first full 990 cycle is filed and indexed.

Teams & Players

Specific team and player counts are not published on the club website. The geographic catchment (Holland to Ludington plus eastward suburbs) is unusually broad — covering roughly 60 miles of coastline and three counties (Ottawa, Muskegon, parts of Mason) — which implies a player base in the several-hundreds at minimum across rec and travel combined. The competitive-side player count is likely smaller (lower triple digits).

League Affiliations

• GVSA — Grand Valley Soccer Association (regional Michigan sanctioning body for West Michigan)
• WMYSA — West Michigan Youth Soccer Association
• MSPSP — Michigan State Premier Soccer Program (Premier-level teams)
• MSYSA Director’s Academy — U11/U12 9v9
• Futsal — winter indoor pathway

The club operates within the GVSA / WMYSA ecosystem, which is the standard West Michigan structure for travel and recreational soccer. The Premier teams compete in MSPSP. ECNL or ECNL-RL membership is not in evidence, placing Lakeshore squarely in the state-league tier rather than the elite national-pathway tier.

Facilities

Specific field ownership is not detailed on the club site. Facility usage appears to follow the typical West Michigan municipal/school-shared model (parks, school district fields, community athletic complexes in Grand Haven, Spring Lake, Ferrysburg, and the surrounding lakeshore communities). The club does not appear to own or operate a dedicated complex.

Leadership

The public site lists limited leadership detail; Michelle Van Duyn appears in club communications as a contact for the recreational program (lakeshorerec@lakeshorefc.com). The executive director, technical director, and full board roster are not surfaced on the public homepage; staff details may be on member-portal pages or behind login.

Competitive Position

Lakeshore FC is the dominant youth soccer brand along the West Michigan lakeshore corridor north of Holland. Within the broader West Michigan market, the club operates one tier below the Grand Rapids-centered competitive clubs — Midwest United FC (MLS Next franchise), PASS FC (MSPSP Premier), Grand Rapids SC — and competes most directly with Holland FC / Holland-area programs on its southern edge and Muskegon-area programs on its northern edge.

The geographic catchment is a structural strength: travel distance is the binding constraint for lakeshore families looking at Grand Rapids clubs, and Lakeshore captures that demand by being the local option across a 60-mile corridor without a competing peer-level club inside its footprint.

Industry Context

Lakeshore FC fits the recurring archetype of the regional-anchor youth club: a single nonprofit organization covering a wide geographic catchment in a population-density-constrained market, where the binding limit on competing clubs is travel time to training and games rather than the absolute size of the youth-athlete pool. Ottawa County and the surrounding lakeshore have grown steadily in population through the 2010s and 2020s on the strength of Grand Rapids metro expansion and lakefront-living migration; that growth feeds youth-sports participation.

The 2023 incorporation date for the current legal entity is interesting. Many clubs of this archetype historically operated as informal recreational associations under a municipal parks-and-rec umbrella before reincorporating as standalone 501(c)(3)s once competitive (travel) programming grew. The Grand Haven Soccer → Lakeshore FC rebrand is consistent with that life-cycle moment: a club gaining enough programming scale to need its own governance, its own tax filing, and its own brand identity distinct from the host community.

Open Questions

• First Form 990 filing (FY 2024 or FY 2025?) — revenue, expenses, key salaries
• Total team count by age, gender, and competitive level
• Total player count (rec vs. travel split)
• Board chair and executive director names
• Facility usage — owned, leased, or municipal-shared
• Relationship to former “Grand Haven” branded operations and any predecessor entity
• Premier-tier competitive trajectory (MSPSP standing, ECNL-RL aspirations)