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Detroit Polo Club

Detroit Polo Club (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $64,702 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES POLO ASSOCIATION INC ($64,702). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2023
$36k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$65k
Net assets
$36k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 41%
01What it does

What Detroit Polo Club does

Mission

Fraternal Organization intended to teach, play and promote the sport of Polo in the Southeast Michigan Area

As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Fraternal Organization intended to teach, play and promote the sport of Polo in the Southeast Michigan Area

    $24,226 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $24,226.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($56k) Expenses 100 ($56k) Net assets 100 ($10k)2019 Revenue 153 ($86k) Expenses 152 ($85k) Net assets 107 ($11k)2020 Revenue 85 ($48k) Expenses 81 ($45k) Net assets 132 ($14k)2021 Revenue 151 ($85k) Expenses 95 ($53k) Net assets 439 ($46k)2022 Revenue 219 ($123k) Expenses 219 ($122k) Net assets 449 ($47k)2023 Revenue 64 ($36k) Expenses 84 ($47k) Net assets 343 ($36k)
201820192020202120222023
Revenue (64)Expenses (84)Net assets (343)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 $16k to $46k (+186%).

$10k
$11k
$16k
$46k
$47k
$36k
201820192020202120222023
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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of Detroit Polo Club’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,075 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$335
’18
$694
’19
$3k
’20
$32k
’21
$1k
’22
−$11k
’23
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $8k → $7k.

Funder
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of Detroit Polo Club’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.

Where its funders are

Detroit Polo Club draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 1 state in all.

FL

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

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’19
’20
’21
’22
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

Detroit Polo Club's revenue fell 36% between 2018 and 2023.

Operating margin−31% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−9% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,891 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2023

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05Profile & governance

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

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Detroit Polo Club: 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 Detroit Polo Club?
Detroit Polo Club (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $64,702 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES POLO ASSOCIATION INC ($64,702). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Detroit Polo Club have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $64,702 in grants to Detroit Polo Club, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Detroit Polo Club?
UNITED STATES POLO ASSOCIATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $64,702 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Detroit Polo Club 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 FY2023 (financials across 2018–2023), and the filings of 1 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