Michigan · Nonprofit
CRIME STOPPERS OF FLINT & GENESEE COUNTY
CRIME STOPPERS OF FLINT & GENESEE COUNTY (Michigan) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $656,434 to it, the largest being RUTH MOTT FOUNDATION ($563,700). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $152k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $656k
- Net assets
- $113k
What Crime Stoppers of Flint & Genesee County does
Mission
The mission of crime stoppers is to partner with law enforcement, the media, and the community to help prevent and solve. Crime stoppers is an avenue for citizens to get information to law enforcement anonymously. Crime stoppers works diligently to educate, engage, and empower citizens in the efforts of reducing and fighting crime. Crime stoppers highlights unsolved cases on television, radio, and social media in the hopes someone will come forward with an anonymous tip to help solve these cases. If that information helps lead to an arrest, tipsters are eligible for a cash reward.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Crime Stoppers of Flint & Genesee County partners with law enforcement, the media, and the community to help solve and prevent crime. In 2024, 16 arrests were made with the help of anonymous tips, awarding $7,150 to tipsters. Crimes related to those arrests include homicide, conspiracy to commit murder, felony firearm, hit-and-run felon in possession of a firearm, dangerous drugs, discharging a firearm from a vehicle, theft, and carrying a concealed weapon.
$172,519 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $172,519.
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 2017 to 2018, from $86k to $136k (+58%).
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 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of CRIME STOPPERS OF FLINT & GENESEE COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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
Julie Lopez
Executive director
Board chair
Ruben Vasquez
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $80k → $93k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 CRIME STOPPERS OF FLINT & GENESEE COUNTY’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
CRIME STOPPERS OF FLINT & GENESEE COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 82% · 2021 82% · 2022 77% · 2023 81% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of CRIME STOPPERS OF FLINT & GENESEE COUNTY's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $70k 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.
Against its field
CRIME STOPPERS OF FLINT & GENESEE COUNTY's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like CRIME STOPPERS OF FLINT & GENESEE COUNTY
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.
Public support
100%
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 CRIME STOPPERS OF FLINT & GENESEE COUNTY: 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 CRIME STOPPERS OF FLINT & GENESEE COUNTY?
- CRIME STOPPERS OF FLINT & GENESEE COUNTY (Michigan) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $656,434 to it, the largest being RUTH MOTT FOUNDATION ($563,700). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CRIME STOPPERS OF FLINT & GENESEE COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $656,434 in grants to CRIME STOPPERS OF FLINT & GENESEE COUNTY, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CRIME STOPPERS OF FLINT & GENESEE COUNTY?
- RUTH MOTT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $563,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CRIME STOPPERS OF FLINT & GENESEE COUNTY 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.
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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 7 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