Michigan · Nonprofit
EcoWorks
EcoWorks (Michigan) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,346,526 to it, the largest being Builders Vision Foundation ($1,114,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $5.3M
- Net assets
- $471k
What EcoWorks does
Mission
EcoWorks creates opportunities to learn and practice the sustainable use of energy and natural resources through innovative education, job training, consulting, social business and advocacy.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
The Youth Energy Squad (YES) grows the next generation of green leaders by engaging young people from diverse backgrounds in hands-on and place-based projects that make their homes, schools and communities more sustainable for everyone. We facilitate student-led green teams in more than 50 Detroit area schools and provide weekly, placed-based education programming to address pressing environmental and social justice issues.
$43,447 spent4% of program spendingEco-D (formerly Residential Education) - Eco-D provides residents and community organizations with resources to achieve healthy affordable, resileint and energy secure homes and neighborhoods. This work includes teaching residents low and no cost ways to reduce their energy and water consumption, in-home nergy assessments and efficiency upgrages, and researsh and advocacy for a stronger utility affordability safety net.
$816,286 spent70% of program spendingStrategic Community Initiatives developes custom-fit energy efficiency and clean nergy solutions for municipalities, school districts, hospitals, small businesses and non-profit organizations. Our holistic energy management approach enables clients to: 1) meet climate and clean energy targets; 2) improve resiience to extreme weather events, 3) and promote an equitable, just transition to a carbon-free future.
$308,211 spent26% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,167,944.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.1M to $1.5M (+34%).
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: 2019 14% · 2021 27% · 2022 19% · 2023 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
62% of EcoWorks’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
J Scott Beckerman
Chair
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $587k → $914k.
3 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 EcoWorks’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 26 of 27 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
EcoWorks has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
68% 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 EcoWorks.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 84% · 2019 38% · 2020 33% · 2021 36% · 2022 48% · 2023 34% — 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.
How long its funders stay
20% of EcoWorks's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
EcoWorks draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $22k 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.
Against its field
EcoWorks runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,794 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2023
Government funding EcoWorks receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20.4M on record.
- Environmental Protection Agency$20.4M
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 EcoWorks
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the 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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
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 EcoWorks: 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 EcoWorks?
- EcoWorks (Michigan) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,346,526 to it, the largest being Builders Vision Foundation ($1,114,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EcoWorks have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $5,346,526 in grants to EcoWorks, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EcoWorks?
- Builders Vision Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,114,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EcoWorks 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 2017–2023), and the filings of 27 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