Michigan · Nonprofit
BLANDFORD NATURE CENTER
BLANDFORD NATURE CENTER (Michigan) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,942,029 to it, the largest being O'DONOVAN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,026,911). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 60
- Grants received
- $5.9M
- Net assets
- $21M
What Blandford Nature Center does
Mission
Using 264 acres of land and wildlife as the backdrop, Blandford Nature Center provides education and community programs that: - educate our community to understand our environment, our heritage, and our connection to natural systems. - engage people to actively use natural spaces and adopt sustainable practices. - empower people to embrace nature and new perspectives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Blandford Nature Center provides educational programming to children and families in the greater west michigan area with an emphasis on ecology, biology and geography.
$1,314,147 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,314,147.
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 2023 to 2024, from $18M to $20M (+12%).
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: 2023 8% · 2024 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
47% of BLANDFORD NATURE CENTER’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. 1 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
Matt Cook
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 30 funders, grant income rose $790k → $1.3M.
12 of 60 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 BLANDFORD NATURE CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 60 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
BLANDFORD NATURE CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 21% · 2019 57% · 2020 35% · 2021 39% · 2022 13% · 2023 26% — 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 BLANDFORD NATURE CENTER'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
95% of BLANDFORD NATURE CENTER's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $886k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
BLANDFORD NATURE CENTER holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BLANDFORD NATURE CENTER
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
51% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
57%
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 BLANDFORD NATURE CENTER: 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 BLANDFORD NATURE CENTER?
- BLANDFORD NATURE CENTER (Michigan) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,942,029 to it, the largest being O'DONOVAN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,026,911). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLANDFORD NATURE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 60 organizations giving $5,942,029 in grants to BLANDFORD NATURE CENTER, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLANDFORD NATURE CENTER?
- O'DONOVAN FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,026,911 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLANDFORD NATURE CENTER 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 60 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