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FENTON AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION

FENTON AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $146,250 to it, the largest being THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ($110,328). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$80k
Revenue FY2024
7
Funders on record
$146k
Grants received
$584k
Net assets
3/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 89%

Against its field

FENTON AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,826 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin64% · top quartile
Months of reserve139.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,826 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($49k) Expenses 100 ($29k) Net assets 100 ($117k)2018 Revenue 229 ($112k) Expenses 127 ($37k) Net assets 164 ($192k)2019 Revenue 181 ($89k) Expenses 202 ($59k) Net assets 190 ($222k)2020 Revenue 119 ($59k) Expenses 113 ($33k) Net assets 212 ($247k)2021 Revenue 259 ($127k) Expenses 120 ($35k) Net assets 291 ($339k)2022 Revenue 110 ($54k) Expenses 201 ($59k) Net assets 287 ($334k)2023 Revenue 132 ($65k) Expenses 106 ($31k) Net assets 419 ($488k)2024 Revenue 163 ($80k) Expenses 99 ($29k) Net assets 500 ($584k)
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Revenue (163)Expenses (99)Net assets (500)Peer revenue range

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

5% of FENTON AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,667 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$20k
17
$75k
18
$30k
19
$25k
20
$92k
21
$5k
22
$34k
23
$51k
24
139
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $3k → $11k.

4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)97% 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 FENTON AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION’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

FENTON AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 97%; 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 FENTON AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION.

75%
largest funder
97%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 78% · 2022 89% · 2023 99%broadly stable.

“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

97% of FENTON AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION'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 $4k that is directly attributable, 74% of it comes from Michigan funders.

MI
MO
TX

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $142k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

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.

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.

Organizations like FENTON AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION

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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 23%Fundraising 0%

Governance

23
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

89%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FENTON AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: 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 FENTON AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
FENTON AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $146,250 to it, the largest being THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ($110,328). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FENTON AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $146,250 in grants to FENTON AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FENTON AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $110,328 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FENTON AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 7funders 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