Michigan · Nonprofit
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY POLO CLUB
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY POLO CLUB (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,038 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES POLO ASSOCIATION INC ($11,381). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $46k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $12k
- Net assets
- $11k
What Michigan State University Polo Club does
Mission
The purpose of this organization is to provide an accessible way for students to learn about the sport of polo as well as the equine management that goes into the sport as a whole. Members have the opportunity to not only learn how to play polo, but also learn the basics of horse care and build riding ability.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Polo education and practice for members
$40,871 spent100% of program spendingIntercollegiate polo game educating members and the public and other fundraisers
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $40,871.
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 2023 to 2024, from $18k to $11k (−39%).
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 MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY POLO CLUB’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $6k → $18.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 STATE UNIVERSITY POLO CLUB’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 STATE UNIVERSITY POLO CLUB leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% 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
95% 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 MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY POLO CLUB.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 90% · 2021 99% · 2022 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
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY POLO CLUB draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $107 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
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY POLO CLUB's revenue fell 40% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,557 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY POLO CLUB
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
100%
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 STATE UNIVERSITY POLO CLUB: 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 STATE UNIVERSITY POLO CLUB?
- MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY POLO CLUB (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,038 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES POLO ASSOCIATION INC ($11,381). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY POLO CLUB have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $12,038 in grants to MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY POLO CLUB, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY POLO CLUB?
- UNITED STATES POLO ASSOCIATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $11,381 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY POLO CLUB 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 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