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HEROES' ALLIANCE INC

HEROES' ALLIANCE INC (Michigan) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $311,037 to it, the largest being THE RALPH C WILSON JR FOUNDATION ($300,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year. HEROES' ALLIANCE INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.

Revenue FY2023
$211k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$311k
Net assets
$509k
2/5 repeat funders

Hosts funds for others

HEROES' ALLIANCE INC administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programHEROES' ALLIANCE INC runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.

Paid out

$14k

Recipients

1

Contributions on record

$311k

Donors on record

4

Payments out are 0.05x the contributions on record, so the balance accumulates rather than passing straight through.

01The 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 ($99k) Expenses 100 ($75k) Net assets 100 ($32k)2018 Revenue 128 ($127k) Expenses 107 ($80k) Net assets 148 ($47k)2020 Revenue 112 ($111k) Expenses 174 ($130k) Net assets 64 ($20k)2021 Revenue 465 ($461k) Expenses 608 ($453k) Net assets 270 ($86k)2022 Revenue 1674 ($1.7M) Expenses 943 ($702k) Net assets 3256 ($1.0M)2023 Revenue 213 ($211k) Expenses 990 ($738k) Net assets 1600 ($509k)
201720182020202120222023
Revenue (213)Expenses (990)Net assets (1600)

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 $224k to $1.3M (+461%).

$32k
$49k
$45k
$224k
$1.3M
$837k
201720182020202120222023
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
2018
2020
2021
2022
2023
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 86% · 2023 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$25k
’17
$47k
’18
−$19k
’20
$8k
’21
$957k
’22
−$527k
’23
2.5
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.

Chief executive

Anika Smith

Executive director

Board chair

Kelly Lane

Chair

As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.

2020202120222023
Listed6788
Joined·+1+1+0
No longer listed·000
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $0 → $150k.

Funder
'17
'18
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1
1
2
2
1

2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 HEROES' ALLIANCE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 4 of 5 funders by total. 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.

Where its funders are

100% of HEROES' ALLIANCE INC's grant income comes from Michigan funders.

MN
MI

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

’18
’22
’23
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k 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.

03Its place in the field
04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 24%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

76%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds HEROES' ALLIANCE INC?
HEROES' ALLIANCE INC (Michigan) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $311,037 to it, the largest being THE RALPH C WILSON JR FOUNDATION ($300,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year. HEROES' ALLIANCE INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
How many funders does HEROES' ALLIANCE INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $311,037 in grants to HEROES' ALLIANCE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HEROES' ALLIANCE INC?
THE RALPH C WILSON JR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HEROES' ALLIANCE 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 5 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