Michigan · Nonprofit
CHAMPION EDUCATION NETWORK
CHAMPION EDUCATION NETWORK (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $257,071 to it, the largest being MAX M & MARJORIE S FISHER FOUNDATION INC ($179,835). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.6M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $257k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Champion Education Network does
Mission
To build a system of remarkable neighborhood schools in traditionally under-resourced communities using a trauma-informed, whole child approach to education - ensuring college, career, and life success for all children.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Champion Education Network (cen) is a full service charter management organization that works with academy/ school boards to oversee all aspects of school management. Cen provides its schools services designed to 1) meet all federal, state and authorizer compliance requirements; 2) attract, employ, develop and retain talent; 3) manage all financial obligations; 4) provide necessary operational supports including but not limited to facility and safety management; and 5) oversee and implement the educational program.
$8,452,850 spentof which $34,965 as grants$9,601,741 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $8,452,850.
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 $1.2M to $2.1M (+77%).
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: 2021 60% · 2022 16% · 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of CHAMPION EDUCATION NETWORK’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Michille Roper-Few
CEO & president, superintendent
Board chair
Nikkiya Penson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $45k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 CHAMPION EDUCATION NETWORK’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
CHAMPION EDUCATION NETWORK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% 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
30% 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 CHAMPION EDUCATION NETWORK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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
100% of CHAMPION EDUCATION NETWORK's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $236 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
CHAMPION EDUCATION NETWORK has grown faster 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 CHAMPION EDUCATION NETWORK
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 CHAMPION EDUCATION NETWORK: 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 CHAMPION EDUCATION NETWORK?
- CHAMPION EDUCATION NETWORK (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $257,071 to it, the largest being MAX M & MARJORIE S FISHER FOUNDATION INC ($179,835). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHAMPION EDUCATION NETWORK have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $257,071 in grants to CHAMPION EDUCATION NETWORK, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHAMPION EDUCATION NETWORK?
- MAX M & MARJORIE S FISHER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $179,835 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHAMPION EDUCATION NETWORK 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