Michigan · Nonprofit
BEYOND BASICS
BEYOND BASICS (Michigan) receives grants from 85 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,856,808 to it, the largest being Wayne and Joan Webber Foundation ($3,197,464). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.8M
- Funders on record
- 85
- Grants received
- $8.9M
- Net assets
- $-1763267
What Beyond Basics does
Mission
Beyond Basics is a michigan nonprofit corporation that offers one-on-one virtual and in person reading, writing, art programs, enrichment programs and partnering opportunities with education, business and cultural organizations to students in metropolitan detroit and throughout the state of michigan. The organization's support comes primarily from public contributions, corporate grants, contracted services, and fundraising support.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provide reading, writing, art and mentoring programs to metropolitan detroit public schools, as well as family literacy programs in neighboring community centers.
$9,639,495 spent$3,721,499 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $9,639,495.
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.
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 $3.3M to $13M (+282%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 6% · 2022 5% · 2023 64% · 2024 6% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
41% of BEYOND BASICS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Board chair
Selam Sanders
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 39 funders, grant income rose $579k → $911k.
15 of 85 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 BEYOND BASICS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 85 funders by total. 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
BEYOND BASICS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 36% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 45% · 2019 69% · 2020 26% · 2021 44% · 2022 28% · 2023 22% — 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
52% of BEYOND BASICS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.
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
96% of BEYOND BASICS's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.
Against its field
BEYOND BASICS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BEYOND BASICS
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BEYOND BASICS: 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 BEYOND BASICS?
- BEYOND BASICS (Michigan) receives grants from 85 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,856,808 to it, the largest being Wayne and Joan Webber Foundation ($3,197,464). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BEYOND BASICS have?
- IRS filings report 85 organizations giving $8,856,808 in grants to BEYOND BASICS, 51 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BEYOND BASICS?
- Wayne and Joan Webber Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $3,197,464 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BEYOND BASICS 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 85 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