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INDUSTRIAL ARTS INSTITUTE INC

INDUSTRIAL ARTS INSTITUTE INC (Michigan) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $957,100 to it, the largest being University of Notre Dame du Lac ($336,250). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2026
$1.1M
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$957k
Net assets
$895k
7/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 25%
01What it does

What Industrial Arts Institute Inc does

Mission

Developing individual assets with time honored training to connect talent with industry. The industrial arts institute is nationally recognized for its contribution to building the professional trades workforce by setting a new educational model standard to empower next generations for wealth creation industries.

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The industrial arts institute has developed approximately 36 students with time-honored training in welding trades to connect talent with industry. It has 142 active student loans, 62 of which have been paid off to date. Additionally, iai provides approximately 60 middle school and high school students with summer welding camps and academies every june and july each year.

    $803,963 spentof which $134,590 as grants$695,046 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. Basic welding, ornamental welding, hs work based learning programs, corporate welder training & testing and youth welding camps and academies

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $803,963.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($392k) Expenses 100 ($303k) Net assets 100 ($21k)2019 Revenue 254 ($995k) Expenses 256 ($775k) Net assets 1163 ($241k)2020 Revenue 207 ($809k) Expenses 256 ($775k) Net assets 1327 ($275k)2021 Revenue 197 ($771k) Expenses 212 ($642k) Net assets 1951 ($404k)2022 Revenue 309 ($1.2M) Expenses 319 ($967k) Net assets 3478 ($720k)2023 Revenue 205 ($803k) Expenses 276 ($837k) Net assets 3430 ($710k)2024 Revenue 240 ($942k) Expenses 268 ($813k) Net assets 4055 ($840k)2025 Revenue 212 ($830k) Expenses 293 ($888k) Net assets 3775 ($782k)2026 Revenue 276 ($1.1M) Expenses 320 ($969k) Net assets 4323 ($895k)
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Revenue (276)Expenses (320)Net assets (4323)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 2018 to 2019, from $292k to $519k (+78%).

$292k
$519k
$644k
$848k
$843k
$832k
$929k
$962k
$1.0M
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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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 1% · 2021 9% · 2022 6% · 2024 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

29% of INDUSTRIAL ARTS INSTITUTE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$89k
’18
$220k
’19
$34k
’20
$129k
’21
$244k
’22
−$34k
’23
$129k
’24
−$58k
’25
$114k
’26
4.4
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

Tamara Ward

Executive director

As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.

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Listed855477788
Joined·+0+1+0+4+1+1+1+1
No longer listed·31111101
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $90k → $198k.

2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 INDUSTRIAL ARTS INSTITUTE 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

INDUSTRIAL ARTS INSTITUTE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

43% 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 INDUSTRIAL ARTS INSTITUTE INC.

35%
largest funder
76%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 83% · 2020 43% · 2021 62% · 2022 32% · 2023 30% — 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

50% of INDUSTRIAL ARTS INSTITUTE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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

INDUSTRIAL ARTS INSTITUTE INC draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 4 states in all.

IL
MI
OH
FL

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

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

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $399k 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

INDUSTRIAL ARTS INSTITUTE INC has grown faster than half of the 88 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin10% · below the median
Months of reserve4.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 88 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2026

Organizations like INDUSTRIAL ARTS INSTITUTE INC

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In Michigan

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 17%Fundraising 0%

Governance

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MI

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Noble Path · disregarded

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Questions and answers

Who funds INDUSTRIAL ARTS INSTITUTE INC?
INDUSTRIAL ARTS INSTITUTE INC (Michigan) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $957,100 to it, the largest being University of Notre Dame du Lac ($336,250). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does INDUSTRIAL ARTS INSTITUTE INC have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $957,100 in grants to INDUSTRIAL ARTS INSTITUTE INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of INDUSTRIAL ARTS INSTITUTE INC?
University of Notre Dame du Lac is the largest funder on record, with $336,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like INDUSTRIAL ARTS INSTITUTE 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.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2026 (financials across 2018–2026), and the filings of 10 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