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FS-DETROIT INC

FS-DETROIT INC (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $105,622 to it, the largest being FIGURE SKATING IN HARLEM INC ($93,122). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$375k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$106k
Net assets
$271k
0/2 repeat funders
01What it does

What Fs-Detroit Inc does

Mission

Figure nbsp;skating nbsp;in nbsp;detroit nbsp;helps nbsp;girls nbsp;transform nbsp;their nbsp;lives nbsp;and nbsp;grow nbsp;in nbsp;confidence nbsp;leadership nbsp;and nbsp;academic nbsp;achievement nbsp;we nbsp;are nbsp;the nbsp;only nbsp;organization nbsp;in nbsp;the nbsp;world nbsp;for nbsp;girls nbsp;of nbsp;color nbsp;that nbsp;combines nbsp;the nbsp;power nbsp;of nbsp;education nbsp;with nbsp;access nbsp;to nbsp;the nbsp;artistic nbsp;discipline nbsp;of nbsp;figure nbsp;skating nbsp;to nbsp;build nbsp;champions nbsp;in nbsp;life

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. I can excel is full youth development program with academic enrichment leadership and figure skating for girls

    $1,683 spent$8,687 earned by the program
    25% of program spending
  2. Summer dreams is a day camp that provides workshops that cover stem entrepreneurship dance/fitness poetry and figure skating

    $4,223 spentof which $61,600 as grants
    64% of program spending
  3. Community skate day heart health holds sessions introducing health nutrition and academic and leadership aspects.

    $695 spent$2,753 earned by the program
    11% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,602. The per-program figures do not add up to the total the return states; both are shown as filed.

02The organization over time

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

Lori Ward

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of FS-DETROIT 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

FS-DETROIT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% 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

100% 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 FS-DETROIT INC.

88%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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

FS-DETROIT INC draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 2 states in all.

MI
NY

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FS-DETROIT INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,482 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin46% · top quartile
Months of reserve6.3mo · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like FS-DETROIT INC

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In Michigan

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

29% of spending goes to programs.

Program 29%Management 48%Fundraising 23%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

0%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MI

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Figure Skating in Harlem · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds FS-DETROIT INC?
FS-DETROIT INC (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $105,622 to it, the largest being FIGURE SKATING IN HARLEM INC ($93,122). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FS-DETROIT INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $105,622 in grants to FS-DETROIT INC.
Who is the largest funder of FS-DETROIT INC?
FIGURE SKATING IN HARLEM INC is the largest funder on record, with $93,122 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FS-DETROIT 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 2025–2025), 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