Michigan · Nonprofit
Michigan Fitness Association
Michigan Fitness Association (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being GILBERT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.4M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $815k
What Michigan Fitness Association does
Mission
The Michigan Fitness Association was Formed as a Direct Result of our Need To Establish a Unified Front and Stand Together as an Industry Here in Michigan. Our Mission is to Protect, Promote and Foster the Interests of all Health and Fitness Business Owners.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Establish a Unified Front and Stand Together as an Industry Here in Michigan. Protect, Promote and Foster the Interests of All Health and Fitness Business Owners. Beyond Advocating to Re-Open our Businesses Amid the Ongoing Covid-19 Pandemic, MFA Gives us a Collective Voice and Strengthens our Position as an Industry.
$4,051,841 spent$14,452 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,051,841.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $69k to $4.3M (+6109%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2023 94% · 2024 83% · 2025 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of Michigan Fitness Association’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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.
Chief executive
Derek Dalling
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Michigan Fitness Association’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Michigan Fitness Association's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Michigan Fitness Association has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Michigan Fitness Association
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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Michigan Fitness Association: 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 Michigan Fitness Association?
- Michigan Fitness Association (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being GILBERT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Michigan Fitness Association have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to Michigan Fitness Association.
- Who is the largest funder of Michigan Fitness Association?
- GILBERT FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Michigan Fitness Association 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 1 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