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DETERMINED EXCEPTIONAL FEARLESS YOUTH

DETERMINED EXCEPTIONAL FEARLESS YOUTH (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $110,000 to it, the largest being OTHERS FIRST INC ($50,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2022
$130k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$110k
Net assets
$27k
3/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%
01What it does

What Determined Exceptional Fearless Youth does

Mission

Youth Mentorship

As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Provided over 1,500 meals to local families, supplied more than 800 backpacks containing school supplies for students and executed the 313 Day in partnership with SNIPES.

The program described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

02The organization over time

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Stanford Wilkinson

Executive director

As listed on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $15k → $45k.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
Others First Incunclassified
$50k
funders
1
2
2
3
1

From the IRS filings of DETERMINED EXCEPTIONAL FEARLESS YOUTH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 4 funders by total. 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

DETERMINED EXCEPTIONAL FEARLESS YOUTH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

73% 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 DETERMINED EXCEPTIONAL FEARLESS YOUTH.

45%
largest funder
100%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 71% · 2022 100% · 2023 67% — 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

73% of DETERMINED EXCEPTIONAL FEARLESS YOUTH's grant income comes from Michigan funders.

MI
OH

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

’20
’21
’22
’23
Michigan 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

DETERMINED EXCEPTIONAL FEARLESS YOUTH runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 19,864 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin20% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 19,864 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2022

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05Profile & governance

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

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds DETERMINED EXCEPTIONAL FEARLESS YOUTH?
DETERMINED EXCEPTIONAL FEARLESS YOUTH (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $110,000 to it, the largest being OTHERS FIRST INC ($50,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DETERMINED EXCEPTIONAL FEARLESS YOUTH have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $110,000 in grants to DETERMINED EXCEPTIONAL FEARLESS YOUTH, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DETERMINED EXCEPTIONAL FEARLESS YOUTH?
OTHERS FIRST INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DETERMINED EXCEPTIONAL FEARLESS YOUTH 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 FY2022 (financials across 2022–2022), and the filings of 4 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