Michigan · Nonprofit
Local Initiatives for Education
Local Initiatives for Education (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $841,730 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($435,905). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $842k
- Net assets
- $108k
What Local Initiatives for Education does
Mission
Provide health, education, and training resources for children and adults in lesser developed areas of the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Local Initiatives for Education provided medical training (ortho- plasties) for the Orthopedic Department at Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda. Medical training in arthoplastic surgery as well as the devices and implants were provided to doctors for indigent patients. The training enhanced the surgeons skills to appropriately provide medical treatment. Medical camps were conducted in South Sudan through the provision of medicines to local doctors to administer in areas with limited healthcare. Accountability through on-site monitoring, receipted expenses and partaner reporting. Individuals served - 1,125
$517,228 spentof which $517,228 as grants44% of program spendingLocal Initiatives for Education provided health and sustainability resources,including food and water,for refugees, internally displaced and residents in South Sudan, Djibouti,Somalia, Kenya, and Zimbabwe. The resources provided immediate aid in severly drought-stricken areas where food supplies and water were non-existent Accountability through on-site monitoring, receipted expenses and partner reporting. Individuals served - 8,550
$311,614 spentof which $311,614 as grants26% of program spendingLocal Initiatives for Education provided widows, single-parent families and young women with resources to develop self-sustaining micro-enterprise opportunities. These opportunities included bread- making, sewing/tailoring, handiwork/crafts, goat, vegetable and fruit production. The outcome has enabled the families to better provide for themselves and generated small incomes by selling their excess in the marketplace. Accountability through on-site monitoring, receipted expenses and partner reporting. Individuals served - 525
$195,286 spentof which $195,286 as grants17% of program spendingLocal Initiatives for Education provided educational resources for a primary school in Kenya and Zimbabwe. Individuals served - 850
$155,215 spentof which $155,215 as grants13% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,179,343.
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 2021 to 2022, from $358k to $476k (+33%).
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.
100% of Local Initiatives for Education’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $3k → $183k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Local Initiatives for Education’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 4 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
Local Initiatives for Education leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 Local Initiatives for Education.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 56% · 2022 89% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Local Initiatives for Education'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $842k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Local Initiatives for Education has grown faster 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 Local Initiatives for Education
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
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
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 Local Initiatives for Education: 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 Local Initiatives for Education?
- Local Initiatives for Education (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $841,730 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($435,905). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Local Initiatives for Education have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $841,730 in grants to Local Initiatives for Education, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Local Initiatives for Education?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $435,905 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Local Initiatives for Education 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 4 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