Michigan · Nonprofit
BENEVOLENT SOCIETY
BENEVOLENT SOCIETY (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $534,000 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ($255,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $123k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $534k
- Net assets
- $0
What Benevolent Society does
Mission
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As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Annual mlk banquet where the community was served and recognized individuals in the who have made significant positive impacts.
$10,976 spent36% of program spendingThe community warming center project is at historic king solomon mbc 6125 14th street. We will open a community warming and wellness center progress has been made by replacing windows in the building. Historic king solomon is currently storing hea. Also creating a clothing closet to serve the community with free clothing.
$19,876 spent64% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $30,852.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars.
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.
100% of BENEVOLENT SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Charles E Williams Ii
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $355k → $82k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 BENEVOLENT SOCIETY’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
BENEVOLENT SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 61% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
BENEVOLENT SOCIETY draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $255k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Against its field
BENEVOLENT SOCIETY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BENEVOLENT SOCIETY
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BENEVOLENT SOCIETY: 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 BENEVOLENT SOCIETY?
- BENEVOLENT SOCIETY (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $534,000 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ($255,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BENEVOLENT SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $534,000 in grants to BENEVOLENT SOCIETY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BENEVOLENT SOCIETY?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN is the largest funder on record, with $255,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BENEVOLENT SOCIETY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 3 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