Michigan · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OFNORTHWEST ACTIVITIES CENTER INC
FRIENDS OFNORTHWEST ACTIVITIES CENTER INC (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $184,828 to it, the largest being ROCKET GIVING FUND ($109,828). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $0
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $185k
- Net assets
- $115k
What Friends Ofnorthwest Activities Center Inc does
Mission
FNWAC is to provide support to NWAC through fundraising, grant-writing, and donation solicitation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Avenue Community Services: Jazz On the Avenue and Sonys Smith: Neighborhood Youth Event
$6,500 spent2% of program spendingSherwood Forest Community - Branding
$20,000 spent7% of program spendingLight Up Livernois and City of Detroit: Construction of Secondary Street Sign
$5,400 spent2% of program spendingVII/I Livernois Skin Bar
$5,000 spent2% of program spendingMichigan Recreation Construction - Palmer Park Walkways and Signage, Blind Dog Productions, Ltd. for Palmer Park Walkways & Beldon San Maria Park, & Motor city Business Roundtable for Harvest Fest
$233,010 spent86% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $269,910.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2024 to 2025, from $385k to $115k (−70%).
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.
0% of FRIENDS OFNORTHWEST ACTIVITIES CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
Ronald Lockett
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2021: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $25k → $160k.
From the IRS filings of FRIENDS OFNORTHWEST ACTIVITIES CENTER INC’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 OFNORTHWEST ACTIVITIES CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
59% 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 OFNORTHWEST ACTIVITIES CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 69% — 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.
Where its funders are
59% of FRIENDS OFNORTHWEST ACTIVITIES CENTER INC's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 OFNORTHWEST ACTIVITIES CENTER INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like FRIENDS OFNORTHWEST ACTIVITIES CENTER INC
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.
Public support
100%
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 FRIENDS OFNORTHWEST ACTIVITIES CENTER INC: 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 FRIENDS OFNORTHWEST ACTIVITIES CENTER INC?
- FRIENDS OFNORTHWEST ACTIVITIES CENTER INC (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $184,828 to it, the largest being ROCKET GIVING FUND ($109,828). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OFNORTHWEST ACTIVITIES CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $184,828 in grants to FRIENDS OFNORTHWEST ACTIVITIES CENTER INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OFNORTHWEST ACTIVITIES CENTER INC?
- ROCKET GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $109,828 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OFNORTHWEST ACTIVITIES CENTER INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 2 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