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CALEDONIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION

CALEDONIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,006 to it, the largest being Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$209k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$11k
Net assets
$1.4M
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Caledonia Education Foundation does

Mission

The Caledonia Education Foundation was incorporated on april 24, 1998. The purpose of the cef is to identify, enhance, or initiate programs which are not or would not normally be underwritten by the caledonia community school districts. The cef is financed by gifts, contributions, donations, and bequests. The cef maintains an endowment fund whereby only the investment income may be allocated to fund grant requests.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Multiple grants to caledonia schools

    $31,606 spentof which $25,617 as grants
    54% of program spending
  2. Scholarships granted to college bound students

    $27,100 spentof which $27,100 as grants
    46% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $58,706.

02The 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 ($85k) Expenses 100 ($108k) Net assets 100 ($1.0M)2018 Revenue 114 ($97k) Expenses 81 ($87k) Net assets 106 ($1.1M)2019 Revenue 104 ($88k) Expenses 93 ($100k) Net assets 107 ($1.1M)2020 Revenue 95 ($80k) Expenses 92 ($99k) Net assets 107 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 183 ($155k) Expenses 129 ($139k) Net assets 133 ($1.4M)2022 Revenue 314 ($266k) Expenses 148 ($160k) Net assets 110 ($1.1M)2023 Revenue 184 ($156k) Expenses 114 ($123k) Net assets 116 ($1.2M)2024 Revenue 227 ($193k) Expenses 103 ($111k) Net assets 129 ($1.3M)2025 Revenue 246 ($209k) Expenses 129 ($139k) Net assets 139 ($1.4M)
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Revenue (246)Expenses (129)Net assets (139)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.1M to $1.4M (+24%).

$1.0M
$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.4M
$1.1M
$1.2M
$1.3M
$1.4M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

57% of CALEDONIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$23k
’17
$10k
’18
−$12k
’19
−$19k
’20
$16k
’21
$106k
’22
$33k
’23
$82k
’24
$70k
’25
23
months of
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.

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Listed1212910810101111
Joined·+1+6+3+1+2+0+4+0
No longer listed·19230030
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $57 → $116.

Funder
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'22
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total
funders
1
1
2
1
1

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 CALEDONIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION’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.

How concentrated its funding is

CALEDONIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

95% 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 CALEDONIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION.

91%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 85% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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.

Where its funders are

95% of CALEDONIA EDUCATION 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 $600 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Michigan, across 1 state.

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Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CALEDONIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin33% · top quartile
Months of reserve23.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like CALEDONIA EDUCATION 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

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

48% of spending goes to programs.

Program 48%Management 37%Fundraising 15%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

71%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds CALEDONIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
CALEDONIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,006 to it, the largest being Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CALEDONIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $11,006 in grants to CALEDONIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CALEDONIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CALEDONIA EDUCATION 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 3 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