Michigan · Nonprofit
Michigan Physical Fitness Health and Sports Foundation
Michigan Physical Fitness Health and Sports Foundation (Michigan) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,725,697 to it, the largest being THE RALPH C WILSON JR FOUNDATION ($2,278,800). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $4.7M
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Michigan Physical Fitness Health and Sports Foundation does
Mission
To inspire active lifestyles and healthy food choices through education, environmental change, community events, and policy leadership.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
As a statewide, backbone organization, MFF convenes community partners and leaders to understand the unique challenges individual communities face and collaboratively develops innovative and sustainable approaches that connect resources, remove roadblocks, and build healthier communities. Aligned with this mission, MFF administers Safe Routes to School and the Pedestrian Education Safety Grant, partnerships with the Michigan Department of Transportation. Additionally, inspiring Michiganders of all ages and abilities to be physically active and to participate in community-based events is an important part of the mission. Initiatives include the Iron Belle Trail partnership projects, Walk/Bike to School Days; and the Mackinac Labor Day Bridge Run.
$1,496,550 spent$49,749 earned by the program8% of program spendingReaching over 1,000,000 people statewide with an intentional focus on low resource and vulnerable populations, MFF works to encourage wellness in the lives of Michigan residents through physical activity and nutrition collaborators, and, to deliver services and support initiatives that reduce disparities and improve conditions where Michigan's citizens of all ages live, learn, work and play. MFF administers statewide programs, service contracts, and grants including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program - Education, a partnership with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services; Safe Routes to Health, an AmeriCorps project with the Michigan Civil Services Commission; the development of a physical literacy framework and physical education curriculum as well as a Team Nutrition project in partnership with the Michigan Department of Education; and Michigan Farm to Family, a Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program with the United States Department of Agriculture. Programs include delivery of physical activity promotion and interventions; nutrition education interventions; and point-of-access programming in places where people live, learn, work, and play. Programs…
$16,525,690 spentof which $8,264,032 as grants$273,607 earned by the program92% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $18,022,240.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $3.7M to $5.8M (+60%).
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: 2017 86% · 2018 75% · 2019 70% · 2020 95% · 2021 90% · 2022 93% · 2023 96% · 2024 96% · 2025 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of Michigan Physical Fitness Health and Sports Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
Amy Ghannam
President and CEO
Board chair
Peaches McCahill
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $161k → $311k.
7 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 Physical Fitness Health and Sports Foundation’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
Michigan Physical Fitness Health and Sports Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 40% · 2019 32% · 2020 76% · 2021 68% · 2022 92% · 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.
How long its funders stay
11% of Michigan Physical Fitness Health and Sports Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 26% 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
100% of Michigan Physical Fitness Health and Sports Foundation's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $173k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Michigan Physical Fitness Health and Sports Foundation's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,969 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding Michigan Physical Fitness Health and Sports Foundation receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.0M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$1.0M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Michigan Physical Fitness Health and Sports Foundation
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Iron Belle Trail Fund · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Michigan Physical Fitness Health and Sports Foundation: 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 Physical Fitness Health and Sports Foundation?
- Michigan Physical Fitness Health and Sports Foundation (Michigan) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,725,697 to it, the largest being THE RALPH C WILSON JR FOUNDATION ($2,278,800). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Michigan Physical Fitness Health and Sports Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $4,725,697 in grants to Michigan Physical Fitness Health and Sports Foundation, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Michigan Physical Fitness Health and Sports Foundation?
- THE RALPH C WILSON JR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,278,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Michigan Physical Fitness Health and Sports Foundation 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 23 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