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BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN

BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN (Michigan) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,758,553 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($2,319,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$6.3M
Revenue FY2024
39
Funders on record
$5.8M
Grants received
$14M
Net assets
22/39 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 46%

Against its field

BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,925 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin20% · top quartile
Months of reserve12.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,925 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($2.5M) Expenses 100 ($2.7M) Net assets 100 ($12M)2018 Revenue 96 ($2.4M) Expenses 93 ($2.5M) Net assets 98 ($12M)2019 Revenue 94 ($2.3M) Expenses 91 ($2.5M) Net assets 101 ($12M)2020 Revenue 75 ($1.9M) Expenses 81 ($2.2M) Net assets 100 ($12M)2021 Revenue 119 ($3.0M) Expenses 109 ($3.0M) Net assets 103 ($12M)2022 Revenue 232 ($5.8M) Expenses 174 ($4.7M) Net assets 107 ($13M)2023 Revenue 201 ($5.0M) Expenses 199 ($5.4M) Net assets 107 ($13M)2024 Revenue 252 ($6.3M) Expenses 186 ($5.0M) Net assets 120 ($14M)
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Revenue (252)Expenses (186)Net assets (120)Peer revenue range

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
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 9% · 2018 6% · 2019 8% · 2020 23% · 2021 11% · 2022 17% · 2023 55% · 2024 45%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

93% of BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,026 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$215k
17
$117k
18
$141k
19
$337k
20
$523
21
$1.1M
22
$372k
23
$1.2M
24
12
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $112k → $496k.

10 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)64% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $12M from 7 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Harbor Shores Public Asset Fund Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN raised.

From the IRS filings of BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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

BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

81% 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN.

40%
largest funder
71%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 71% · 2019 52% · 2020 57% · 2021 43% · 2022 87% · 2023 29%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

40% of BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

64% of BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN'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 $2.1M that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from funders outside Michigan, across 9 states.

IL
MI
NY
IN
OH
MO
TN
NC
GA

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

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Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 39 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $818k on record.

Federal$818k
grants $818kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$818k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Michigan

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 17%Fundraising 10%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

78%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MI

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN?
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN (Michigan) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,758,553 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($2,319,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN have?
IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $5,758,553 in grants to BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN?
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $2,319,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 39funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing