Michigan · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF RUTHERFORD POOL
FRIENDS OF RUTHERFORD POOL (Michigan) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $179,647 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($45,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $217k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $180k
- Net assets
- $266k
What Friends of Rutherford Pool does
Mission
Friends of Rutherford Pool is organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes. These functions include management and maintenance of rutherford community pool as a community asset in order to support the health, recreation opportunities, and water safety training of members of our community, with a focus on children and youth.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
During 2024, the pool was open for the season as usual after spending $200k to resurface the inner lining of the pool. The pool had over 20,000 visits with the majority of our patrons being children/youth. With grants from the metroparks and washtenaw county, we were able to give out free swim lessons to residents, mostly living in the 48197 and 48198 zip codes. Over 450 toddlers, children, and youth received swim lessons as well as 50 adults. Students who attended at least 80% of their classes were given free pool passes good for 5 visits. The ypsilanti otters, a non-profit, community-based swim organization, hosted its summer practices and swim meets for children and youth at rutherford pool as well. The pool worked in partnership with ypsilanti community schools to provide free daily pool passes to over 3,000 students and with the ypsi district library to give out another 1,000 passes through their summer reading program. In august, we hosted the annual kids' triathlon and the ypsi night out event, in partnership with the ypsilanti housing commission. We continued to build our list of community partners working with parkridge community center, the ann arbor area ymca, educate…
$163,287 spent$93,127 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $163,287.
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 2019 to 2020, from $409k to $118k (−71%).
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 2% · 2024 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
53% of FRIENDS OF RUTHERFORD POOL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Jessica Faul
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $35k → $22.
5 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 FRIENDS OF RUTHERFORD POOL’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
FRIENDS OF RUTHERFORD POOL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
64% 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 FRIENDS OF RUTHERFORD POOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 43% · 2020 57% · 2022 74% · 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.
Where its funders are
64% of FRIENDS OF RUTHERFORD POOL'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 $65k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $115k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
FRIENDS OF RUTHERFORD POOL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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In Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF RUTHERFORD POOL?
- FRIENDS OF RUTHERFORD POOL (Michigan) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $179,647 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($45,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF RUTHERFORD POOL have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $179,647 in grants to FRIENDS OF RUTHERFORD POOL, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF RUTHERFORD POOL?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF RUTHERFORD POOL 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 7 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