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DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION

DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,109,250 to it, the largest being EILEEN DEVRIES FAMILY FOUNDATION ($400,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$3.8M
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$1.1M
Net assets
$38M
9/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%
01What it does

What Davenport University Foundation does

Mission

To secure financial support for the purpose of growing the university foundation endowment, student scholarships, and the development of needed programs and capital projects.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provided support to assist davenport university in the accomplishment of its educational objectives, including the funding of programs, the making of grants to the university, the funding of scholarships, and other supporting activities.

    $3,244,693 spentof which $3,244,693 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,244,693.

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 ($2.6M) Expenses 100 ($3.1M) Net assets 100 ($29M)2018 Revenue 146 ($3.9M) Expenses 45 ($1.4M) Net assets 107 ($31M)2019 Revenue 72 ($1.9M) Expenses 53 ($1.6M) Net assets 110 ($32M)2020 Revenue 89 ($2.4M) Expenses 50 ($1.6M) Net assets 110 ($32M)2021 Revenue 156 ($4.1M) Expenses 40 ($1.3M) Net assets 130 ($38M)2022 Revenue 232 ($6.2M) Expenses 55 ($1.7M) Net assets 124 ($36M)2023 Revenue 91 ($2.4M) Expenses 162 ($5.1M) Net assets 119 ($35M)2024 Revenue 101 ($2.7M) Expenses 98 ($3.1M) Net assets 127 ($37M)2025 Revenue 142 ($3.8M) Expenses 111 ($3.4M) Net assets 130 ($38M)
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Revenue (142)Expenses (111)Net assets (130)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 $33M to $38M (+17%).

$30M
$32M
$32M
$33M
$38M
$36M
$35M
$37M
$38M
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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

36% of DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 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.

−$466k
’17
$2.5M
’18
$272k
’19
$818k
’20
$2.9M
’21
$4.4M
’22
−$2.6M
’23
−$384k
’24
$306k
’25
4.5
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.

Chief executive

Rachel Render

Executive director/secretary

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed181717141513131212
Joined·+0+3+0+1+1+1+0+0
No longer listed·13303110
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $135k → $227k.

2 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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: $11k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Davenport University). These are real filings, and they are not money DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION raised.

From the IRS filings of DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY 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

DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

36%
largest funder
72%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 70% · 2019 87% · 2020 77% · 2021 50% · 2022 67% · 2023 44% — 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

17% of DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

100% of DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Michigan funders.

WI
MI

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. $35k 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

DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · above the median
Months of reserve4.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY 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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 6%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
73%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MI

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Davenport University · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION?
DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,109,250 to it, the largest being EILEEN DEVRIES FAMILY FOUNDATION ($400,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,109,250 in grants to DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION?
EILEEN DEVRIES FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY 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 13 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