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BENZIE CENTRAL SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC

BENZIE CENTRAL SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,000 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR OCEANA COUNTY ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2023
$91k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$26k
Net assets
$530k
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%
01What it does

What Benzie Central Schools Foundation Inc does

Mission

Provide scholarships, grants and support for the benzie central schools students, faculty and community

As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Scholarships for benzie county schools students/graduates

    $96,978 spentof which $73,753 as grants
    100% of program spending
  2. Mini grants for students, faculty & community of benzie central schools

The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $96,978.

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 ($115k) Expenses 100 ($54k) Net assets 100 ($434k)2018 Revenue 79 ($91k) Expenses 102 ($55k) Net assets 96 ($417k)2019 Revenue 141 ($162k) Expenses 119 ($64k) Net assets 119 ($515k)2020 Revenue 86 ($99k) Expenses 114 ($62k) Net assets 127 ($552k)2021 Revenue 90 ($103k) Expenses 74 ($40k) Net assets 142 ($615k)2022 Revenue 62 ($71k) Expenses 126 ($68k) Net assets 125 ($541k)2023 Revenue 79 ($91k) Expenses 190 ($102k) Net assets 122 ($530k)
2017201820192020202120222023
Revenue (79)Expenses (190)Net assets (122)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 2018 to 2019, from $417k to $515k (+23%).

$434k
$417k
$515k
$552k
$615k
$541k
$530k
2017201820192020202120222023
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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

49% of BENZIE CENTRAL SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$61k
’17
$36k
’18
$97k
’19
$37k
’20
$63k
’21
$3k
’22
−$11k
’23
62
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.

20192020202120222023
Listed55555
Joined·+1+0+0+0
No longer listed·1000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1k → $8k.

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 BENZIE CENTRAL SCHOOLS FOUNDATION 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

BENZIE CENTRAL SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% 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

58% 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 BENZIE CENTRAL SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC.

58%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

58% of BENZIE CENTRAL SCHOOLS FOUNDATION 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 $11k that is directly attributable, 73% of it comes from funders outside Michigan, across 2 states.

IL
MI

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

’17
’18
’19
’23
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BENZIE CENTRAL SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 21,386 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−12% · below the median
Months of reserve62.1mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,386 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2023

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 5%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds BENZIE CENTRAL SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC?
BENZIE CENTRAL SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,000 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR OCEANA COUNTY ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does BENZIE CENTRAL SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $26,000 in grants to BENZIE CENTRAL SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BENZIE CENTRAL SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR OCEANA COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BENZIE CENTRAL SCHOOLS FOUNDATION 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), 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