Michigan · Nonprofit
BLUES GYM
BLUES GYM (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,000 to it, the largest being KELLER FOUNDATION ($3,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $53k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $3k
- Net assets
- $694k
What Blues Gym does
Mission
Keeping kids off the streets by strengthening their bodies, sharpening there minds, and deepening their spirits. The goal is to empower the youth in the area and to prepare them for the rest of their lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
A skill building program has been established through inspirational speeches, community outreach, and by establishing contacts with several area school districts. Volunteers have been able to reach out to youth with teaching in a classroom as well as one on one communication.
$53,558 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $53,558.
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 2019 to 2020, from $2k to $784k (+44868%).
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: 2020 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of BLUES GYM’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (39% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of BLUES GYM’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.
Where its funders are
100% of BLUES GYM's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
BLUES GYM's revenue fell 60% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,011 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like BLUES GYM
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BLUES GYM: 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 BLUES GYM?
- BLUES GYM (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,000 to it, the largest being KELLER FOUNDATION ($3,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLUES GYM have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $3,000 in grants to BLUES GYM, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLUES GYM?
- KELLER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLUES GYM 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 1 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