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DEAR JOHN MICHAEL FOUNDATION FOR FIGHTING MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY

DEAR JOHN MICHAEL FOUNDATION FOR FIGHTING MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,750 to it, the largest being THE MEYER FOUNDATION INC ($19,750). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$16k
Revenue FY2024
4
Funders on record
$24k
Grants received
$146k
Net assets
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 57%

Against its field

DEAR JOHN MICHAEL FOUNDATION FOR FIGHTING MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Months of reserve10.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−21% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,170 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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 ($86k) Expenses 100 ($22k) Net assets 100 ($105k)2018 Revenue 149 ($128k) Expenses 240 ($52k) Net assets 175 ($184k)2019 Revenue 73 ($63k) Expenses 306 ($66k) Net assets 181 ($190k)2020 Revenue 20 ($18k) Expenses 373 ($80k) Net assets 121 ($127k)2021 Revenue 32 ($27k) Expenses 14 ($3k) Net assets 144 ($151k)2022 Revenue 21 ($18k) Expenses 103 ($22k) Net assets 141 ($147k)2023 Revenue 22 ($19k) Expenses 75 ($16k) Net assets 143 ($150k)2024 Revenue 19 ($16k) Expenses 93 ($20k) Net assets 140 ($146k)
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Revenue (19)Expenses (93)Net assets (140)Peer revenue range
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1k → $3k.

From the IRS filings of DEAR JOHN MICHAEL FOUNDATION FOR FIGHTING MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY’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

DEAR JOHN MICHAEL FOUNDATION FOR FIGHTING MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

83%
largest funder
96%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 67% · 2022 69% · 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 DEAR JOHN MICHAEL FOUNDATION FOR FIGHTING MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY's grant income comes from Texas funders.

TX

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

18
19
20
21
22
23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 4 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 DEAR JOHN MICHAEL FOUNDATION FOR FIGHTING MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY

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 Texas

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DEAR JOHN MICHAEL FOUNDATION FOR FIGHTING MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY: 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 DEAR JOHN MICHAEL FOUNDATION FOR FIGHTING MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY?
DEAR JOHN MICHAEL FOUNDATION FOR FIGHTING MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,750 to it, the largest being THE MEYER FOUNDATION INC ($19,750). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DEAR JOHN MICHAEL FOUNDATION FOR FIGHTING MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $23,750 in grants to DEAR JOHN MICHAEL FOUNDATION FOR FIGHTING MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DEAR JOHN MICHAEL FOUNDATION FOR FIGHTING MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY?
THE MEYER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $19,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DEAR JOHN MICHAEL FOUNDATION FOR FIGHTING MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4funders 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