Michigan · Nonprofit
Lest We Forget Inc
Lest We Forget Inc (Michigan) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $137,075 to it, the largest being BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($104,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $89k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $137k
- Net assets
- $117k
What Lest We Forget Inc does
Mission
Form 990-EZ, Part III Organizations Primary Exempt Purpose Brighten the Future by Illuminating the Past Form 990-EZ, Part III Program Service Accomplishments June weekend event focused on the 80th Anniversary of D-Day including beach landing, simulated bomb runs, helicopter rides and other activities. Annual Veterans Concert - we pay Southshore Concert Band to perform this concert at the auditorium at Lake Michigan College. Veterans receive a photograph mailed to them. Booth & military display at Berrien County Youth Fair - open from 10AM to 10PM Sunday to Saturday - purpose is to increase visibility and inform veterans of our activities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Not described on the e-filed return.
$76,754 spent96% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$2,875 spent4% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $79,629.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $85k to $100k (+18%).
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.
96% of Lest We Forget Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $22k → $22k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 Lest We Forget 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
Lest We Forget Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% 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
84% 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 Lest We Forget Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 47% · 2019 53% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
Where its funders are
76% of Lest We Forget Inc'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 $33k that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $105k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Lest We Forget Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 14,851 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,851 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like Lest We Forget Inc
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.
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Lest We Forget Inc: 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 Lest We Forget Inc?
- Lest We Forget Inc (Michigan) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $137,075 to it, the largest being BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($104,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Lest We Forget Inc have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $137,075 in grants to Lest We Forget Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Lest We Forget Inc?
- BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $104,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Lest We Forget 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 5 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