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APPLE PLAYSCHOOLS

APPLE PLAYSCHOOLS (Michigan) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $425,076 to it, the largest being IFF ($149,170). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$2.1M
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$425k
Net assets
$-33264
7/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What Apple Playschools does

Mission

We embody inclusion, innovation, and environmental stewardship in entrepreneurship and education in order to make a more equitable world. We do this through anti-bias education, global citizenship, environmental stewardship & education, collaborative community partnerships, & respect for authentic childhood.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Apple Playschools offers two unique early education programs: green apple garden playschool, which emphasizes outdoor and nature play year round, and manzanitas spanish immersion playschool, where children are immersed in hispanic language and culture in order to develop fluency in the spanish language. Both programs share a love of child-led, play-based learning where children are encouraged to follow their own interest at their own pace. We also provide a community-immersion school age camp program that promotes play and independence, as well as workshops for educators, families, and caregivers.

    $1,855,432 spent$1,884,653 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,855,432.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.3M) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets 100 ($42k)2018 Revenue 102 ($1.4M) Expenses 105 ($1.4M) Net assets -9 ($-3617)2019 Revenue 107 ($1.4M) Expenses 101 ($1.4M) Net assets 172 ($71k)2020 Revenue 101 ($1.4M) Expenses 84 ($1.1M) Net assets 436 ($181k)2021 Revenue 111 ($1.5M) Expenses 91 ($1.2M) Net assets 1074 ($446k)2022 Revenue 134 ($1.8M) Expenses 131 ($1.8M) Net assets 1131 ($469k)2023 Revenue 128 ($1.7M) Expenses 159 ($2.1M) Net assets 99 ($41k)2024 Revenue 159 ($2.1M) Expenses 166 ($2.2M) Net assets -80 ($-33264)
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Revenue (159)Expenses (166)Net assets (-80)Peer revenue range

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 $1.2M to $708k (−39%).

$522k
$528k
$537k
$865k
$1.1M
$1.2M
$708k
$929k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 11% · 2021 2% · 2022 26% · 2023 2% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

11% of APPLE PLAYSCHOOLS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,814 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$8k
’17
−$46k
’18
$74k
’19
$219k
’20
$260k
’21
$27k
’22
−$440k
’23
−$105k
’24
1.3
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

Etta Heisler

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1071110912128
Joined·+6+5+0+3+4+5+0
No longer listed·9114154
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $2k → $52k.

5 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 APPLE PLAYSCHOOLS’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

APPLE PLAYSCHOOLS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% 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

84% 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 APPLE PLAYSCHOOLS.

35%
largest funder
72%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 51% · 2021 35% · 2022 46% · 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

57% of APPLE PLAYSCHOOLS's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

APPLE PLAYSCHOOLS draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 5 states in all.

IL
MI
NY
IN
CT

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

’18
’20
’21
’23
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $201k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

APPLE PLAYSCHOOLS's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−5% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like APPLE PLAYSCHOOLS

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

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 17%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MI

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Questions and answers

Who funds APPLE PLAYSCHOOLS?
APPLE PLAYSCHOOLS (Michigan) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $425,076 to it, the largest being IFF ($149,170). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does APPLE PLAYSCHOOLS have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $425,076 in grants to APPLE PLAYSCHOOLS, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of APPLE PLAYSCHOOLS?
IFF is the largest funder on record, with $149,170 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like APPLE PLAYSCHOOLS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 12 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing