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FAMILY LEARNING INSTITUTE

FAMILY LEARNING INSTITUTE (Michigan) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $350,642 to it, the largest being ANN ARBOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($110,117). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$197k
Funders on record
18
Grants received
$351k
Net assets
$156k
12/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 52%
01What it does

What Family Learning Institute does

Mission

Family Learning Institute (fli) is a volunteer based nonprofit agency dedicated to closing the achievement gap in washtenaw county. Through collaboration with local schools and community partners, and the implementation of innovative programs that develop literacy and prevent summer learning loss, fli engages economically disadvantaged children, their parents and community in supporting a commitment to success in school and beyond. Fli believes our students, regardless of life circumstances, deserve a chance to forge the skills they need to build the lives they dream.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Family Learning Institute (fli) provides tutoring to economically disadvantaged children in grades 2-5 in the areas of math, reading, and writing. Fli students are matched with a volunteer coach who works with them one-on-one throughout the school year. In a typical six (6) month period 70% of students will improve their reading, writing, and/or math skills by one level.

    $165,010 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $165,010.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($245k) Expenses 100 ($182k) Net assets 100 ($135k)2018 Revenue 66 ($163k) Expenses 83 ($151k) Net assets 108 ($146k)2019 Revenue 100 ($244k) Expenses 106 ($192k) Net assets 147 ($198k)2020 Revenue 69 ($169k) Expenses 97 ($176k) Net assets 142 ($191k)2021 Revenue 88 ($214k) Expenses 92 ($167k) Net assets 177 ($239k)2022 Revenue 71 ($174k) Expenses 94 ($171k) Net assets 179 ($241k)2023 Revenue 52 ($127k) Expenses 106 ($193k) Net assets 130 ($176k)2024 Revenue 81 ($197k) Expenses 120 ($218k) Net assets 116 ($156k)
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Revenue (81)Expenses (120)Net assets (116)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 2022 to 2023, from $303k to $222k (−27%).

$142k
$151k
$205k
$194k
$242k
$303k
$222k
$174k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 18% · 2018 17% · 2019 2% · 2020 14% · 2021 11% · 2023 45% · 2024 66%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

94% of FAMILY LEARNING INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$63k
’17
$12k
’18
$52k
’19
−$7k
’20
$48k
’21
$3k
’22
−$66k
’23
−$21k
’24
6.6
months of
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

William Godfrey

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1212101015131310
Joined·+4+2+0+7+4+0+0
No longer listed·4402603
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $38k → $12k.

5 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 FAMILY LEARNING INSTITUTE’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

FAMILY LEARNING INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

52% 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 FAMILY LEARNING INSTITUTE.

31%
largest funder
66%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 59% · 2019 52% · 2020 48% · 2021 48% · 2022 42% · 2023 88% — 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.

How long its funders stay

50% of FAMILY LEARNING INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

100% of FAMILY LEARNING INSTITUTE's grant income comes from Michigan funders.

MI

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

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Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $152k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FAMILY LEARNING INSTITUTE's revenue fell 19% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin−11% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve6.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like FAMILY LEARNING INSTITUTE

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 20%Fundraising 4%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds FAMILY LEARNING INSTITUTE?
FAMILY LEARNING INSTITUTE (Michigan) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $350,642 to it, the largest being ANN ARBOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($110,117). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FAMILY LEARNING INSTITUTE have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $350,642 in grants to FAMILY LEARNING INSTITUTE, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FAMILY LEARNING INSTITUTE?
ANN ARBOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $110,117 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FAMILY LEARNING INSTITUTE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 18 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