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BEAVER ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MICHIGAN

BEAVER ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MICHIGAN (Michigan) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $280,329 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($108,452). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$304k
Revenue FY2025
13
Funders on record
$280k
Grants received
$909k
Net assets
6/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 26%

Against its field

BEAVER ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MICHIGAN's revenue fell 53% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−14% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−9% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($645k) Expenses 100 ($75k) Net assets 100 ($871k)2018 Revenue 20 ($128k) Expenses 121 ($91k) Net assets 104 ($902k)2019 Revenue 19 ($122k) Expenses 163 ($122k) Net assets 104 ($903k)2020 Revenue 33 ($212k) Expenses 172 ($129k) Net assets 113 ($987k)2021 Revenue 36 ($233k) Expenses 349 ($261k) Net assets 110 ($959k)2022 Revenue 35 ($228k) Expenses 234 ($174k) Net assets 116 ($1.0M)2023 Revenue 41 ($262k) Expenses 438 ($327k) Net assets 110 ($960k)2024 Revenue 54 ($347k) Expenses 477 ($356k) Net assets 109 ($951k)2025 Revenue 47 ($304k) Expenses 463 ($345k) Net assets 104 ($909k)
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Revenue (47)Expenses (463)Net assets (104)Peer revenue range

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.

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2018
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 4% · 2018 51% · 2019 38% · 2020 33% · 2021 37% · 2022 27% · 2023 23% · 2024 27% · 2025 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

64% of BEAVER ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MICHIGAN’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,459 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$570k
17
$38k
18
$663
19
$84k
20
$27k
21
$54k
22
$65k
23
$9k
24
$42k
25
2.0
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $17k → $45k.

6 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)63% 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 BEAVER ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MICHIGAN’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

BEAVER ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MICHIGAN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% 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

81% 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 BEAVER ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MICHIGAN.

39%
largest funder
72%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 58% · 2019 99% · 2020 100% · 2021 42% · 2022 76% · 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

40% of BEAVER ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MICHIGAN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

63% of BEAVER ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MICHIGAN'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 $104k that is directly attributable, 73% of it comes from Michigan funders.

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

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Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $176k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 13 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like BEAVER ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MICHIGAN

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Michigan

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 18%Fundraising 5%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

79%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BEAVER ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MICHIGAN: 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 BEAVER ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MICHIGAN?
BEAVER ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MICHIGAN (Michigan) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $280,329 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($108,452). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does BEAVER ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MICHIGAN have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $280,329 in grants to BEAVER ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MICHIGAN, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BEAVER ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MICHIGAN?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $108,452 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BEAVER ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MICHIGAN 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.

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 13funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing