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LATVIAN CENTER GAREZERS

LATVIAN CENTER GAREZERS (Michigan) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,343,695 to it, the largest being FRIENDS OF GAREZERS INC ($4,971,342). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$4.9M
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$5.3M
Net assets
$8.2M
9/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 25%
01What it does

What Latvian Center Garezers does

Mission

Garezers prospers as a meeting place for latvians of all ages, to raise and educate latvian youth, to strenghten the latvian language, culture and spiritual values, to promote the latvian way of life and develop links with latvia.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Every summer garezers operates four children's programs: a day camp, children's camp, middle school, and summer high school.

    $721,872 spentof which $3,850 as grants$380,689 earned by the program
    59% of program spending
  2. Other activities at the latvian center include outdoor church services, a variety of concerts, art exhibits, and an annual volleyball tournament.

    $495,865 spent$334,963 earned by the program
    41% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,217,737.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($1.2M) Net assets 100 ($3.2M)2018 Revenue 106 ($1.2M) Expenses 99 ($1.2M) Net assets 100 ($3.2M)2019 Revenue 121 ($1.4M) Expenses 104 ($1.2M) Net assets 106 ($3.4M)2020 Revenue 99 ($1.1M) Expenses 71 ($844k) Net assets 116 ($3.7M)2021 Revenue 103 ($1.2M) Expenses 95 ($1.1M) Net assets 123 ($4.0M)2022 Revenue 170 ($1.9M) Expenses 103 ($1.2M) Net assets 141 ($4.5M)2023 Revenue 107 ($1.2M) Expenses 100 ($1.2M) Net assets 144 ($4.6M)2024 Revenue 434 ($4.9M) Expenses 117 ($1.4M) Net assets 254 ($8.2M)
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Revenue (434)Expenses (117)Net assets (254)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 2023 to 2024, from $4.8M to $8.3M (+74%).

$3.3M
$3.3M
$3.5M
$3.8M
$4.0M
$4.6M
$4.8M
$8.3M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2018 3% · 2019 2% · 2022 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

83% of LATVIAN CENTER GAREZERS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$70k
’17
$13k
’18
$115k
’19
$268k
’20
$15k
’21
$680k
’22
$16k
’23
$3.5M
’24
1.5
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

Ingrida Petersons

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1212131616141415
Joined·+0+5+3+5+0+1+4
No longer listed·0405213
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $13k → $47k.

5 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 LATVIAN CENTER GAREZERS’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

LATVIAN CENTER GAREZERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

93%
largest funder
98%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 69% · 2020 57% · 2021 60% · 2022 84% · 2023 62% — 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

67% of LATVIAN CENTER GAREZERS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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

95% of LATVIAN CENTER GAREZERS's grant income comes from Michigan funders.

IL
MI
CT
MD
FL

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

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Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $108k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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

LATVIAN CENTER GAREZERS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin71% · top quartile
Months of reserve1.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)23% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like LATVIAN CENTER GAREZERS

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 13%Fundraising 0%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

96%

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 LATVIAN CENTER GAREZERS?
LATVIAN CENTER GAREZERS (Michigan) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,343,695 to it, the largest being FRIENDS OF GAREZERS INC ($4,971,342). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LATVIAN CENTER GAREZERS have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $5,343,695 in grants to LATVIAN CENTER GAREZERS, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LATVIAN CENTER GAREZERS?
FRIENDS OF GAREZERS INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,971,342 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LATVIAN CENTER GAREZERS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 12 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