Michigan · Nonprofit
INFORUM
INFORUM (Michigan) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,028,045 to it, the largest being THE FRED & BARBARA ERB FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,339,012). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Inforum does
Mission
Inforum accelerates careers for women and is a catalyst that removes barriers and increases opportunity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization advances women's leadership by delivering comprehensive training programs that include skill building sessions led by industry leaders, top women executives, and personalized mentoring. Through regular meetings and educational events, expert speakers present topics focused on career advancement and leadership development for women. The organization also fosters expansive professional connectivity, supporting a multifaceted network of more than 6,000 members across 224 industries, businesses, and organizations. Its talent development initiatives engaged 2,628 participants reflecting a 72% increase over the prior year and the organization hosted 292 events, including major signature programs, member gatherings, and affinity group meetings. These efforts are strengthened by the support of 106 corporate partners and more than 600 individual donors, all contributing to the mission of building stronger career pathways and leadership opportunities for women.
$1,742,080 spent$604,656 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,742,080.
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.
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 $3.8M to $4.2M (+11%).
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.
62% of INFORUM’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Jamie Simpson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $108k → $313k.
8 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $114k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Corewell Health). These are real filings, and they are not money INFORUM raised.
From the IRS filings of INFORUM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 17 of 18 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.
How concentrated its funding is
INFORUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 96% · 2019 41% · 2020 47% · 2021 71% · 2022 81% · 2023 82% — broadly stable.
“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
44% of INFORUM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.
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 INFORUM's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $268k 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.
Against its field
INFORUM holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like INFORUM
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
71%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INFORUM: 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 INFORUM?
- INFORUM (Michigan) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,028,045 to it, the largest being THE FRED & BARBARA ERB FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,339,012). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INFORUM have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $2,028,045 in grants to INFORUM, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INFORUM?
- THE FRED & BARBARA ERB FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,339,012 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INFORUM 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 18 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing