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GROSSE POINTE YACHT CLUB

GROSSE POINTE YACHT CLUB (Michigan) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,033,204 to it, the largest being GROSSE POINTE YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION ($2,948,348). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$7.8M
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$3.0M
Net assets
$21M
2/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 16%
01What it does

What Grosse Pointe Yacht Club does

Mission

The club is a premier private yacht club, specializing in providing high-quality family and social programs to its members who are located in southeastern michigan.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To provide pleasure, recreation, food and beverage services and social opportunities to the members of the club. Activities include: boating, bowling, swimming and tennis.

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($6.5M) Expenses 100 ($5.6M) Net assets 100 ($14M)2019 Revenue 106 ($6.9M) Expenses 119 ($6.7M) Net assets 100 ($14M)2020 Revenue 96 ($6.3M) Expenses 114 ($6.4M) Net assets 97 ($13M)2021 Revenue 116 ($7.6M) Expenses 96 ($5.4M) Net assets 117 ($16M)2022 Revenue 122 ($8.0M) Expenses 136 ($7.6M) Net assets 125 ($17M)2023 Revenue 209 ($14M) Expenses 165 ($9.3M) Net assets 160 ($22M)2024 Revenue 125 ($8.2M) Expenses 151 ($8.5M) Net assets 155 ($21M)2025 Revenue 119 ($7.8M) Expenses 146 ($8.2M) Net assets 153 ($21M)
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Revenue (119)Expenses (146)Net assets (153)

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 $25M to $30M (+24%).

$24M
$23M
$23M
$25M
$30M
$35M
$33M
$32M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$908k
’17
$227k
’19
−$163k
’20
$2.2M
’21
$323k
’22
$4.4M
’23
−$314k
’24
−$436k
’25
0.9
months of
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.

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Listed1515121514161616
Joined··+3+5+1+5+2+3
No longer listed··622323
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $347k → $122k.

From the IRS filings of GROSSE POINTE YACHT CLUB’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

GROSSE POINTE YACHT CLUB leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% 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 GROSSE POINTE YACHT CLUB.

97%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 96% · 2019 92% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 93% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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

100% of GROSSE POINTE YACHT CLUB's grant income comes from Michigan funders.

MI

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’20
’21
’22
’23
Michigan out of state home

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

Organizations like GROSSE POINTE YACHT CLUB

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

05Profile & governance

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

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MI

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Grosse Pointe Yacht Club Foundation · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds GROSSE POINTE YACHT CLUB?
GROSSE POINTE YACHT CLUB (Michigan) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,033,204 to it, the largest being GROSSE POINTE YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION ($2,948,348). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GROSSE POINTE YACHT CLUB have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $3,033,204 in grants to GROSSE POINTE YACHT CLUB, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GROSSE POINTE YACHT CLUB?
GROSSE POINTE YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,948,348 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GROSSE POINTE YACHT CLUB 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 6 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