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ASPPIRE INC

ASPPIRE INC (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $79,643 to it, the largest being CAPITAL REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($58,163). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$664k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$80k
Net assets
$423k
1/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What Asppire Inc does

Mission

Asppire of mid-michigan provides adaptive social programs that provide instruction, recreation and enrichment.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Employment services provides a variety of services as a vendor for vocational rehabilitation for those with disabilities. The purpose of these services is to assist clients to find and keep a job along with providing the support needed for success.

    $331,352 spent
    80% of program spending
  2. Social coaching program provides opportunity to improve social skills on a weekly basis under the guidance of a trained facilitator in a small group setting.

    $62,128 spent
    15% of program spending
  3. Professional development services provide an asppire content expert that present their knowledge to others in areas of job coaching, transition, social skills, diversity disability awareness and autism specific.

    $20,709 spent
    5% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $414,189.

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 ($152k) Expenses 100 ($130k) Net assets 100 ($35k)2018 Revenue 129 ($195k) Expenses 151 ($196k) Net assets 98 ($34k)2019 Revenue 127 ($193k) Expenses 137 ($177k) Net assets 142 ($50k)2020 Revenue 128 ($194k) Expenses 138 ($179k) Net assets 184 ($65k)2021 Revenue 171 ($260k) Expenses 161 ($208k) Net assets 252 ($89k)2022 Revenue 270 ($409k) Expenses 253 ($327k) Net assets 485 ($170k)2023 Revenue 313 ($474k) Expenses 315 ($408k) Net assets 672 ($236k)2024 Revenue 437 ($664k) Expenses 367 ($476k) Net assets 1206 ($423k)
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Revenue (437)Expenses (367)Net assets (1206)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 2023 to 2024, from $243k to $432k (+78%).

$37k
$42k
$60k
$87k
$130k
$183k
$243k
$432k
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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: 2022 8% · 2023 7% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

12% of ASPPIRE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,893 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$22k
’17
−$853
’18
$16k
’19
$15k
’20
$52k
’21
$82k
’22
$66k
’23
$187k
’24
10
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

Maria Peak

Executive director

Board chair

Bruce Raak

Board president

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

20182021202220232024
Listed76556
Joined··+0+0+1
No longer listed··100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $85 → $1k.

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 ASPPIRE 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

ASPPIRE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

99% 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 ASPPIRE INC.

73%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 95% — 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.

Where its funders are

74% of ASPPIRE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $21k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from Michigan funders.

MI
OH

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

’21
’23
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $59k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

ASPPIRE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin28% · top quartile
Months of reserve10.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)23% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like ASPPIRE 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

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 11%Fundraising 2%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

36%

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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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ASPPIRE 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 ASPPIRE INC?
ASPPIRE INC (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $79,643 to it, the largest being CAPITAL REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($58,163). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does ASPPIRE INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $79,643 in grants to ASPPIRE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ASPPIRE INC?
CAPITAL REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $58,163 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ASPPIRE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 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