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ILITCH CHARITIES INC

ILITCH CHARITIES INC (Michigan) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $475,057 to it, the largest being Major League Baseball Charities Inc ($165,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$3.2M
Funders on record
22
Grants received
$475k
Net assets
$11M
6/22 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Ilitch Charities Inc does

Mission

Provide support to children and family programs in the areas of health, recreation and education.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.

Red wing reading program providing book, resources and grants to promote community literacy

Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).

  1. Youth hockey support

    $618,086 spentof which $618,086 as grants
    31% of program spending
  2. Play baseball detroit

    $621,545 spentof which $605,717 as grants
    31% of program spending
  3. Red wing reading program

    $55,503 spentof which $55,503 as grants
    3% of program spending
  4. Game day for kids program

    $34,822 spentof which $34,822 as grants
    2% of program spending
  5. Autographs for a cause

    $33,827 spentof which $33,827 as grants
    2% of program spending
  6. Hockey fights cancer

    $26,147 spentof which $26,147 as grants
    1% of program spending
  7. Adopt a family (8 families assisted)

    $22,056 spentof which $22,056 as grants
    1% of program spending
  8. Case job shadowing internship program

    $9,758 spentof which $8,635 as grants
    0% of program spending
  9. Youth hockey initiative

    $13,750 spentof which $13,750 as grants
    1% of program spending
  10. Hometown holiday assist

    $8,226 spentof which $8,226 as grants
    0% of program spending
  11. Gloves for kids

    $5,196 spentof which $4,964 as grants
    0% of program spending
  12. Various other smaller programs and giving

    $538,603 spentof which $527,975 as grants
    27% of program spending

The 12 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,987,519.

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 ($1.0M) Expenses 100 ($3.6M) Net assets 100 ($9.2M)2021 Revenue 203 ($2.0M) Expenses 43 ($1.6M) Net assets 105 ($9.7M)2022 Revenue 242 ($2.4M) Expenses 64 ($2.3M) Net assets 106 ($9.8M)2023 Revenue 335 ($3.4M) Expenses 73 ($2.6M) Net assets 114 ($11M)2024 Revenue 319 ($3.2M) Expenses 77 ($2.8M) Net assets 118 ($11M)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (319)Expenses (77)Net assets (118)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 2022 to 2023, from $11M to $12M (+9%).

$9.7M
$10M
$11M
$12M
$12M
20202021202220232024
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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

56% of ILITCH CHARITIES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,035 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$2.6M
’20
$485k
’21
$145k
’22
$754k
’23
$446k
’24
51
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.

Board chair

Christopher Ilitch

Chairman and director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

20202021202220232024
Listed55555
Joined·+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·0000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 11 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $102k → $90k.

7 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 ILITCH CHARITIES INC’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

ILITCH CHARITIES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 35% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

87% 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 ILITCH CHARITIES INC.

35%
largest funder
49%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 96% · 2019 99% · 2020 66% · 2021 46% · 2022 29% · 2023 30% — 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.

How long its funders stay

21% of ILITCH CHARITIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 27% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

ILITCH CHARITIES INC draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 9 states in all.

IL
MI
NY
NJ
RI
CA
CO
TX
FL

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $140k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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

ILITCH CHARITIES INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin14% · above the median
Months of reserve51.1mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)34% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like ILITCH CHARITIES INC

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In Michigan

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

72% of spending goes to programs.

Program 72%Management 28%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

81%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MI

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Questions and answers

Who funds ILITCH CHARITIES INC?
ILITCH CHARITIES INC (Michigan) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $475,057 to it, the largest being Major League Baseball Charities Inc ($165,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ILITCH CHARITIES INC have?
IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $475,057 in grants to ILITCH CHARITIES INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ILITCH CHARITIES INC?
Major League Baseball Charities Inc is the largest funder on record, with $165,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ILITCH CHARITIES 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 22 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