Michigan · Nonprofit
Foundations Preschool of Washtenaw County
Foundations Preschool of Washtenaw County (Michigan) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $637,952 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF WASHTENAW COUNTY ($339,320). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $638k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Foundations Preschool of Washtenaw County does
Mission
To provide equitable access to high-quality care and education prepare children for future academic and social success and strengthen families through opportunities for professional, personal, and parental growth
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
For the 2024-25 year, Foundations Preschool achieved several significant programmatic and organizational milestones. We successfully passed our CACFP Child and Adult Care Food Program state audit with no major findings, reaffirming our commitment to strong fiscal oversight and high-quality nutrition services for children and families. After strategically reducing our state-funded programming in prior years, we expanded access by reopening an additional GSRP classroom, increasing enrollment opportunities for preschool-aged children. To further strengthen program quality and operational leadership, we also added an Assistant Program Director position, enhancing supervision, staff support, and overall program stability.
$1,503,267 spent$831,396 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,503,267.
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 $1.5M to $1.8M (+19%).
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 51% · 2018 50% · 2019 48% · 2020 56% · 2021 61% · 2022 66% · 2023 20% · 2024 35% · 2025 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
49% of Foundations Preschool of Washtenaw County’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Sandy Williams
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $168k → $17k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 Foundations Preschool of Washtenaw County’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
Foundations Preschool of Washtenaw County leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 Foundations Preschool of Washtenaw County.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 71% · 2019 62% · 2020 40% · 2021 76% · 2022 75% · 2023 100% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of Foundations Preschool of Washtenaw County's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
97% of Foundations Preschool of Washtenaw County's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $232k 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
Foundations Preschool of Washtenaw County's revenue grew 35% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Foundations Preschool of Washtenaw County
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Foundations Preschool of Washtenaw County: 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 Foundations Preschool of Washtenaw County?
- Foundations Preschool of Washtenaw County (Michigan) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $637,952 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF WASHTENAW COUNTY ($339,320). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Foundations Preschool of Washtenaw County have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $637,952 in grants to Foundations Preschool of Washtenaw County, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Foundations Preschool of Washtenaw County?
- UNITED WAY OF WASHTENAW COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $339,320 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Foundations Preschool of Washtenaw County 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 11 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