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LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MICHIGAN EDUCATION FUND

LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MICHIGAN EDUCATION FUND (Michigan) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $821,004 to it, the largest being LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND ($218,522). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$485k
Revenue FY2025
16
Funders on record
$821k
Grants received
$592k
Net assets
8/16 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Against its field

LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MICHIGAN EDUCATION FUND runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 814 civil rights nonprofits its size.

Operating margin33% · top quartile
Months of reserve21.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)27% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 814 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($93k) Expenses 100 ($69k) Net assets 100 ($94k)2019 Revenue 229 ($214k) Expenses 298 ($207k) Net assets 107 ($100k)2020 Revenue 114 ($107k) Expenses 91 ($63k) Net assets 154 ($144k)2021 Revenue 182 ($170k) Expenses 183 ($127k) Net assets 200 ($187k)2022 Revenue 162 ($151k) Expenses 117 ($81k) Net assets 275 ($258k)2023 Revenue 417 ($389k) Expenses 295 ($204k) Net assets 473 ($443k)2024 Revenue 164 ($153k) Expenses 234 ($162k) Net assets 463 ($433k)2025 Revenue 519 ($485k) Expenses 470 ($326k) Net assets 633 ($592k)
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Revenue (519)Expenses (470)Net assets (633)Peer revenue range

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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 16% · 2020 78%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

99% of LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MICHIGAN EDUCATION FUND’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,977 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.

$24k
18
$7k
19
$44k
20
$43k
21
$70k
22
$185k
23
$9k
24
$159k
25
22
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $47k.

7 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)51% 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 LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MICHIGAN EDUCATION FUND’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

LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MICHIGAN EDUCATION FUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

96% 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 LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MICHIGAN EDUCATION FUND.

27%
largest funder
60%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 58% · 2019 34% · 2020 45% · 2021 46% · 2022 31% · 2023 78%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

36% of LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MICHIGAN EDUCATION FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

51% of LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MICHIGAN EDUCATION FUND'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. Of the $405k that is directly attributable, 69% of it comes from funders outside Michigan, across 5 states.

MI
NY
PA
CA
DC

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

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18
19
20
21
22
23
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $416k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

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 16 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.

Organizations like LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MICHIGAN EDUCATION FUND

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.

In Michigan

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MICHIGAN EDUCATION FUND: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MICHIGAN EDUCATION FUND?
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MICHIGAN EDUCATION FUND (Michigan) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $821,004 to it, the largest being LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND ($218,522). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MICHIGAN EDUCATION FUND have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $821,004 in grants to LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MICHIGAN EDUCATION FUND, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MICHIGAN EDUCATION FUND?
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND is the largest funder on record, with $218,522 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MICHIGAN EDUCATION FUND 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.

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 16funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing