Michigan · Nonprofit
BOOK INDUSTRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
BOOK INDUSTRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,293,788 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($2,123,329). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $2.9M
What Book Industry Charitable Foundation does
Mission
To strengthen the bookselling community through charitable programs that support employees and their families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Financial assistance and disaster relief programs - see schedule 0
$733,477 spentof which $536,386 as grants65% of program spendingProfessional development scholarships - the foundation believes that the future of healthy bookstores and comic stores lies in the continuing education of the owners and employees. To encourage further business development and career growth, the foundation offers scholarships for several professional industry events and certificate programs. The scholarships are merit and need-based.
$127,265 spentof which $58,246 as grants11% of program spendingBinc tank pilot - this is a three-year pilot program designed as a business incubator focusing on helping entrepreneurs open bookstores in underserved markets. The three-year pilot program expired during the year ended december 31, 2025. The foundation board is considering whether and how to proceed with the business incubator project going forward.
$237,291 spentof which $85,495 as grants21% of program spendingMental health wellness - designed to provide access to professional mental health services for eligible booksellers and comic retailers, the program connects individuals in the bookselling community with licensed therapists through a telehealth partnership. Individuals, couples, and teen therapy services are provided. The foundation also provides emergency on-site therapy for groups involved in traumatic events such as shootings, burglaries, and staff suicides.
$22,650 spentof which $22,650 as grants2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,120,683.
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 $1.8M to $3.5M (+92%).
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.
93% of BOOK INDUSTRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $11k → $194k.
14 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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 BOOK INDUSTRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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
BOOK INDUSTRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
91% 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 BOOK INDUSTRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 76% · 2019 56% · 2020 79% · 2021 69% · 2022 57% · 2023 75% — 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.
How long its funders stay
24% of BOOK INDUSTRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% 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
83% of BOOK INDUSTRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION'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 $545k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Michigan, across 13 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
BOOK INDUSTRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BOOK INDUSTRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 32 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BOOK INDUSTRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: 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 BOOK INDUSTRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION?
- BOOK INDUSTRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,293,788 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($2,123,329). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BOOK INDUSTRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $3,293,788 in grants to BOOK INDUSTRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOOK INDUSTRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,123,329 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOOK INDUSTRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION 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.
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 34 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