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Michigan · Nonprofit
KENT COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION (Michigan) is funded by 21 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $2,213,354 in grants to it, the largest being JAMES AND SHIRLEY BALK FOUNDATION ($1,350,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
KENT COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,947 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,947 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
86% of KENT COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
The base broadened — 4 funders to 6 as grant income moved $132k → $171k.
4 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 KENT COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
KENT COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 87%; 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 95% · 2018 88% · 2019 66% · 2020 64% · 2021 57% · 2022 93% · 2023 41% · 2024 79% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
47% of KENT COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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.
KENT COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION is locally rooted: 98% of its grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 21 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
39% of spending goes to programs.
Operates in 1 state
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 21funders 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. view filing