Michigan · Nonprofit
IMAGINATION STATION
IMAGINATION STATION (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($5). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $5
- Net assets
- $435k
What Imagination Station does
Mission
Imagination Station is an naeyc accredited child care facility that seeks to provide "world class" learning and childcare opportunities to the children and families of the greater holland & zeeland area and to positively impact the lives of the children, families, businesses and communities which we serve.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The organization operates as a child care center for childern ranging from six weeks to eleven years old. The organization uses a thematic curriculum approach to early childhood learning, which emphasizes hands on experiences. The objective of the organization is to provide faith-based child care for a safe and nurturing environment. The organization also places a high importance on making high quality child learning opportunities available to all children through Imagination Station's tuition assistance program. The teachers believe and have a love for god and share that with the children. Prayers are said daily at the center including before every meal. Bible stories are shared with the children along with christian songs. The organization accepts all denominations and does not teach any particular denomination. The organization's hope is that the child will feel the love of god within the center and grow to better understand who he is and all that he provides for us. The organization meets or exceeds the state recommendation for teacher to child ratios which are as follows: 6 weeks up to 2 1/2; 1 teacher for every 4 children 2 1/2 up to 3; 1 teacher for every 8 children 3 up to…
$1,500,327 spent$1,891,096 earned by the program93% of program spendingThe organization operates as a child care center for childern ranging from six weeks to eleven years old. The organization uses a thematic curriculum approach to early childhood learning, which emphasizes hands on experiences.
$112,264 spent7% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,612,591.
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 2021 to 2022, from $975k to $1.6M (+62%).
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: 2020 39% · 2022 41% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of IMAGINATION STATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 IMAGINATION STATION’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.
Where its funders are
100% of IMAGINATION STATION'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5 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
IMAGINATION STATION's revenue grew 53% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like IMAGINATION STATION
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for IMAGINATION STATION: 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 IMAGINATION STATION?
- IMAGINATION STATION (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($5). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does IMAGINATION STATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5 in grants to IMAGINATION STATION.
- Who is the largest funder of IMAGINATION STATION?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IMAGINATION STATION 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 1 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