Michigan · Nonprofit
GREAT SCHOOLS INITIATIVE
GREAT SCHOOLS INITIATIVE (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $402,100 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($287,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $478k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $402k
- Net assets
- $-25406
What Great Schools Initiative does
Mission
The corporation is organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes in accordance with section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code of 1986 (or a corresponding provision of any future united states internal revenue law, referred to below as the "code"). More specifically, the corporation enables parents and other citizens to seek the well-being of their children through collaboration and communication with schools across michigan, and to promote the flourishing of students and their families through academic freedom, choice, and excellence.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Transform public schools through high impact community engagement projects designed to produce orthodox education.
$521,959 spentof which $55,310 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $521,959.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $30k to $38k (+27%).
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.
100% of GREAT SCHOOLS INITIATIVE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 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
Nathan Pawl
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 GREAT SCHOOLS INITIATIVE’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
GREAT SCHOOLS INITIATIVE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% 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 GREAT SCHOOLS INITIATIVE.
“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
96% of GREAT SCHOOLS INITIATIVE'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 $15k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Michigan funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $387k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
GREAT SCHOOLS INITIATIVE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like GREAT SCHOOLS INITIATIVE
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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Great Education Initiative Action · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GREAT SCHOOLS INITIATIVE: 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 GREAT SCHOOLS INITIATIVE?
- GREAT SCHOOLS INITIATIVE (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $402,100 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($287,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GREAT SCHOOLS INITIATIVE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $402,100 in grants to GREAT SCHOOLS INITIATIVE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREAT SCHOOLS INITIATIVE?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $287,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREAT SCHOOLS INITIATIVE 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 3 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