Michigan · Nonprofit
MICHIGAN ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE
MICHIGAN ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE (Michigan) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,311,383 to it, the largest being EDWARD & HELEN MARDIGIAN FOUNDATION ($1,170,000). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MICHIGAN ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,558 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,558 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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.
- Deroy Testamentary Foundationshared funders
- The Nancy Sherertz Family Foundation Incportfolio match
- Scott Kenneth a Charitable Taportfolio match
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.
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.
94% of MICHIGAN ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $10k → $517k.
13 of 67 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 MICHIGAN ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 67 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
MICHIGAN ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 65%; 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 19% · 2018 32% · 2019 32% · 2020 66% · 2021 56% · 2022 62% · 2023 68% — 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.
How long its funders stay
49% of MICHIGAN ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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. 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
96% of MICHIGAN ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $512k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
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 67 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Deroy Testamentary Foundationshared fundersMI · backs 58 organizations that share your funders
- The Nancy Sherertz Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Scott Kenneth a Charitable Taportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Burt Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pets for the Elderly Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Massachusetts Animal Coalition Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Muntwyler Wanda Char 0 Mainportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Petfinder Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lundstrom Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Association for Animal Welfare Advancementportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Edward C and Linda Dresner Levy Foundationshared fundersVA · backs 63 organizations that share your funders
- Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundationshared funderslocalMI · backs 55 organizations that share your funders · funds 133 organizations near you
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 MICHIGAN ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MICHIGAN ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE: 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.
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 MICHIGAN ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE?
- MICHIGAN ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE (Michigan) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,311,383 to it, the largest being EDWARD & HELEN MARDIGIAN FOUNDATION ($1,170,000). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MICHIGAN ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE have?
- IRS filings report 67 organizations giving $2,311,383 in grants to MICHIGAN ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MICHIGAN ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE?
- EDWARD & HELEN MARDIGIAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,170,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MICHIGAN ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 67funders 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