Michigan · Nonprofit
DICKINSON IRON COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY
DICKINSON IRON COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY (Michigan) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $559,313 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($300,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
DICKINSON IRON COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,983 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,983 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.
- The Joyce and Warren Brule Foundationlocal
- Metro Meals on Wheels Incportfolio match
- Agesmart Community Resourcesportfolio 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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 64% · 2018 61% · 2019 68% · 2020 74% · 2021 72% · 2022 75% · 2023 67% · 2024 70% · 2025 70%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of DICKINSON IRON COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $29k → $10k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% 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 DICKINSON IRON COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 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
DICKINSON IRON COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 DICKINSON IRON COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 50% · 2019 100% · 2020 50% · 2021 92% · 2022 84% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
82% of DICKINSON IRON COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY'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 $100k that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $459k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
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 8 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Joyce and Warren Brule FoundationlocalMI · funds 4 organizations near you
- Metro Meals on Wheels Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Agesmart Community Resourcesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Detroit Area Agency on Agingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Russell and Josephine Kott Memorial Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Feeding South Dakotaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Feeding America West Michiganportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Northern Illinois Food Bankportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Illinois Association of Community Action Agenciesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ramapo Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elderbridge Agency on Agingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dickinson Hospitals FoundationlocalMI · funds 2 organizations near you
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.
Government funding DICKINSON IRON COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $480k on record.
- Corporation for National and Community Service$427k
- Department of Veterans Affairs$53k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like DICKINSON IRON COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY
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.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Up Community Services Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DICKINSON IRON COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY: 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 DICKINSON IRON COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY?
- DICKINSON IRON COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY (Michigan) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $559,313 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($300,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DICKINSON IRON COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $559,313 in grants to DICKINSON IRON COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DICKINSON IRON COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DICKINSON IRON COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY 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 8funders 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