Michigan · Nonprofit
GROW & LEAD COMMUNITY AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT
GROW & LEAD COMMUNITY AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $276,885 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE UPPER PENINSULA ($265,385). 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 FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $277k
- Net assets
- $13M
What Grow & Lead Community and Youth Development does
Mission
We provide nonprofit organizations with expertise, resources and training so that all youth can thrive in michigan's upper peninsula.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Innovation & mission driven programs - grow & lead invests in research, staff development, and field-level innovation to strengthen nonprofit and youth-serving systems across michigan's upper peninsula. Activities include professional development to maintain subject-matter expertise; research, design, and testing of new capacity-building tools and programs; and participation in regional committees and collaborative efforts advancing nonprofit effectiveness, youth development priorities, and inclusive community practices.
$126,480 spent25% of program spendingService delivery programs - grow & lead provides capacity-building services to nonprofit organizations across michigan's upper peninsula, including training, technical assistance, and peer learning. By strengthening nonprofit operations, grow & lead supports effective community philanthropy and well-managed, sustainable programs that benefit communities, including youth-serving initiatives. Grow & lead also coordinates regional initiatives including the u.p. Nonprofit conference, the give906 givingtuesday campaign, and excellence in education week, an event supporting student achievement and educators through the administration of scholarships and professional development awards in collaboration with community foundations and school districts.
$236,558 spentof which $86,000 as grants47% of program spendingCommunity capacity building - grow & lead strengthens community capacity by supporting collaboration, shared learning, and alignment across the nonprofit and philanthropic ecosystem. Staff serve on boards, committees, and cross-sector initiatives focused on nonprofit effectiveness, youth development, and community resilience. By improving coordination, governance, and organizational capacity across the sector, grow & lead supports community foundations and other funders by helping ensure that nonprofits are well-prepared to implement, manage, and sustain successful programs that benefit youth and communities.
$137,966 spent28% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $501,004.
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 2020 to 2021, from $9.7M to $12M (+22%).
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: 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
26% of GROW & LEAD COMMUNITY AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
Amy Quinn
CEO
Board chair
Iola Brubaker
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $60k → $4k.
1 of 2 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.2M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation of Marquette County). These are real filings, and they are not money GROW & LEAD COMMUNITY AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT raised.
From the IRS filings of GROW & LEAD COMMUNITY AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT’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
GROW & LEAD COMMUNITY AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% 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
96% 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 GROW & LEAD COMMUNITY AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 89% · 2022 95% · 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
96% of GROW & LEAD COMMUNITY AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT'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 $12k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Michigan, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $265k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
GROW & LEAD COMMUNITY AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like GROW & LEAD COMMUNITY AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GROW & LEAD COMMUNITY AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT: 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 GROW & LEAD COMMUNITY AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT?
- GROW & LEAD COMMUNITY AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $276,885 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE UPPER PENINSULA ($265,385). 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 GROW & LEAD COMMUNITY AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $276,885 in grants to GROW & LEAD COMMUNITY AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GROW & LEAD COMMUNITY AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE UPPER PENINSULA is the largest funder on record, with $265,385 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GROW & LEAD COMMUNITY AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT 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 2017–2025), 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