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HELEN L FOX GOSPEL MUSIC CENTER

HELEN L FOX GOSPEL MUSIC CENTER (Michigan) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $426,860 to it, the largest being KALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($198,650). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$169k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$427k
Net assets
$113k
5/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 69%
01What it does

What Helen L Fox Gospel Music Center does

Mission

We are a not for profit community service organization focused on providing music education to urban and underserved youth as a pathway for success and excellence in all areas of life.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Provided music education to urban and underserved youth.

    $121,469 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $121,469.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($89k) Expenses 100 ($97k) Net assets 100 ($1k)2021 Revenue 206 ($183k) Expenses 73 ($71k) Net assets 7655 ($114k)2022 Revenue 101 ($90k) Expenses 116 ($113k) Net assets 6151 ($92k)2023 Revenue 129 ($115k) Expenses 99 ($96k) Net assets 7424 ($111k)2024 Revenue 121 ($108k) Expenses 138 ($135k) Net assets 5630 ($84k)2025 Revenue 190 ($169k) Expenses 144 ($140k) Net assets 7557 ($113k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (190)Expenses (144)Net assets (7557)Peer revenue range

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 $63k to $114k (+81%).

$63k
$114k
$92k
$112k
$85k
$116k
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

92% of HELEN L FOX GOSPEL MUSIC CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$8k
’20
$112k
’21
−$22k
’22
$19k
’23
−$27k
’24
$29k
’25

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Bridget Ticker Gonder

CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $18k → $75k.

2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 HELEN L FOX GOSPEL MUSIC CENTER’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

HELEN L FOX GOSPEL MUSIC CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

54% 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 HELEN L FOX GOSPEL MUSIC CENTER.

47%
largest funder
78%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 49% · 2020 100% · 2021 67% · 2022 76% · 2023 53% — 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.

How long its funders stay

40% of HELEN L FOX GOSPEL MUSIC CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

100% of HELEN L FOX GOSPEL MUSIC CENTER's grant income comes from Michigan funders.

MI

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

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $199k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

HELEN L FOX GOSPEL MUSIC CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin17% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like HELEN L FOX GOSPEL MUSIC CENTER

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.

Public support

41%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds HELEN L FOX GOSPEL MUSIC CENTER?
HELEN L FOX GOSPEL MUSIC CENTER (Michigan) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $426,860 to it, the largest being KALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($198,650). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HELEN L FOX GOSPEL MUSIC CENTER have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $426,860 in grants to HELEN L FOX GOSPEL MUSIC CENTER, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HELEN L FOX GOSPEL MUSIC CENTER?
KALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $198,650 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HELEN L FOX GOSPEL MUSIC CENTER 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 8 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