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COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOOLS OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN INC

COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOOLS OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN INC (Michigan) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,727,616 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($800,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$1.4M
Revenue FY2025
12
Funders on record
$1.7M
Grants received
$1.4M
Net assets
7/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 46%

Against its field

COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOOLS OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin5% · above the median
Months of reserve12.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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 ($715k) Expenses 100 ($654k) Net assets 100 ($164k)2018 Revenue 122 ($871k) Expenses 119 ($778k) Net assets 157 ($258k)2019 Revenue 156 ($1.1M) Expenses 147 ($959k) Net assets 254 ($416k)2020 Revenue 105 ($750k) Expenses 126 ($825k) Net assets 208 ($341k)2021 Revenue 148 ($1.1M) Expenses 132 ($866k) Net assets 324 ($532k)2022 Revenue 245 ($1.8M) Expenses 153 ($1.0M) Net assets 782 ($1.3M)2023 Revenue 143 ($1.0M) Expenses 155 ($1.0M) Net assets 786 ($1.3M)2024 Revenue 166 ($1.2M) Expenses 184 ($1.2M) Net assets 776 ($1.3M)2025 Revenue 201 ($1.4M) Expenses 208 ($1.4M) Net assets 824 ($1.4M)
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Revenue (201)Expenses (208)Net assets (824)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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 70% · 2018 71% · 2019 52% · 2020 58% · 2021 71% · 2022 36% · 2023 61% · 2024 56% · 2025 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

65% of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOOLS OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,312 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$61k
17
$94k
18
$158k
19
$75k
20
$191k
21
$750k
22
$6k
23
$16k
24
$79k
25
12
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 5 funders, grant income fell $101k → $87k.

5 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)82% 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 COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOOLS OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN INC’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

COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOOLS OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

99% 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 COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOOLS OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN INC.

46%
largest funder
80%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 56% · 2019 100% · 2020 87% · 2021 93% · 2022 100% · 2023 35%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.

How long its funders stay

38% of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOOLS OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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

81% of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOOLS OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN INC'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 $320k that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from Michigan funders.

MI
OH

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

17
18
20
23
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 12 funders put you under-funded 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.

Organizations like COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOOLS OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN INC

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

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 10%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

99%

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 COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOOLS OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN INC: 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 COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOOLS OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN INC?
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOOLS OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN INC (Michigan) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,727,616 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($800,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOOLS OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN INC have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,727,616 in grants to COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOOLS OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOOLS OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN INC?
The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $800,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOOLS OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN INC 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 12funders 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