Michigan · Nonprofit
DEFENDER MOBILITY
DEFENDER MOBILITY (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $276,138 to it, the largest being Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc ($166,528). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
DEFENDER MOBILITY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,769 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,769 health nonprofits under $100k, 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.
- George H and Estelle M Sands Foundationshared funders
- Disabled American Veterans Department of Minnesota Incportfolio match
- The Bowlers to Veterans Linkportfolio match
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.
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.
100% of DEFENDER MOBILITY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $21k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 DEFENDER MOBILITY’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
DEFENDER MOBILITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% 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
62% 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 DEFENDER MOBILITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 68% · 2023 73% — 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
60% of DEFENDER MOBILITY'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 $110k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Michigan, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $167k 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.
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.
- George H and Estelle M Sands Foundationshared fundersNJ · backs 23 organizations that share your funders
- Disabled American Veterans Department of Minnesota Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Bowlers to Veterans Linkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Disabled American Veterans National Service Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Disabled American Veteransportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Disabled American Veterans California Rehabilitation Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Disabled American Veterans Department of Missouri Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Combat Veterans Motorcycle Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Valor Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Warrior Initiative Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robert & Jeanine Dagenais Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Disabled American Veterans of Minnesota Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 DEFENDER MOBILITY
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
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 DEFENDER MOBILITY: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds DEFENDER MOBILITY?
- DEFENDER MOBILITY (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $276,138 to it, the largest being Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc ($166,528). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DEFENDER MOBILITY have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $276,138 in grants to DEFENDER MOBILITY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DEFENDER MOBILITY?
- Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $166,528 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DEFENDER MOBILITY 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 3funders 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