Michigan · Nonprofit
MIDLAND KIDS FIRST
MIDLAND KIDS FIRST (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $90,939 to it, the largest being MIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($82,361). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $105k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $91k
- Net assets
- $468k
What Midland Kids First does
Mission
The organization's mission is to recognize the strengths and assets of midland county's youth in order to provide valuable input and participation by assisting in identifying needs, creating solutions and validating effectiveness, to build capacity at all levels to intervene early in the lives of those families viewed at risk of becoming involved in the legal system, to mobilize the community to promote values and norms that support compassion, respect, rehabilitation, and accountability while ensuring community safety, and to support leadership that is responsive to this unified commitment that focuses first on integrated community-based programs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The recovering youth futures program aims to make substance abuse counseling and treatment available to youth who might not otherwise receive adequate treatment and to result in an objectively-verified positive impact on substance abuse by school-age youth.
$28,009 spent24% of program spendingThe midland mentors program seeks to provide positive role models for youth in the day treatment program at the midland county juvenile care center thereby reducing the likelihood that these youth will engage in high risk behaviors.
$30,674 spent27% of program spendingChild maltreatment prevention - program using evidence based methods in partnership with medical providers to address psychosocial problems facing many families such as parental depression, substance abuse, major stress, intimate partner violence, harsh punishment, and food insecurity. These problems have been associated with child maltreatment.
$44,670 spent39% of program spendingProbate court fund was established to receive and disburse contributions from the community-at-large intended to benefit at-risk youth who have become court wards. The judge of the 42nd circuit court's family division (hon. Dorene s. Allen) has designated Midland Kids First as the fiduciary for these funds. Midland Kids First seeks to provide additional assistance to the community schools and families to help strengthen a positive environment for the youth in the community. Wraparound services program to purchase the services and supplies for children with severe emotional disturbances and children with cognitive impairments or autism spectrum disorder who are at risk of being removed from the family home, at risk of an out-of-community placement, reunifying from a structured placement, and/or has other risk factors that exceed the capacity for traditional community-based options for youth and family treatment. Strengthening families program is an evidence-based intervention program focused on serving troubled or disadvantaged youth by improving the quality of family life in previously dysfunctional families. Summer activities program provides opportunities for children in the…
$12,035 spent10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $115,388.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.1M to $718k (−32%).
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 30% · 2018 70% · 2020 3% · 2021 8% · 2022 24% · 2023 32% · 2024 52%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
74% of MIDLAND KIDS FIRST’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Sharon Mortensen
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $33k → $500.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 91% 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 MIDLAND KIDS FIRST’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
MIDLAND KIDS FIRST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% 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
91% 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 MIDLAND KIDS FIRST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 98% · 2021 95% · 2022 67% · 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
91% of MIDLAND KIDS FIRST'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. Of the $9k that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $82k 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
MIDLAND KIDS FIRST holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like MIDLAND KIDS FIRST
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
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
57%
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 MIDLAND KIDS FIRST: 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 MIDLAND KIDS FIRST?
- MIDLAND KIDS FIRST (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $90,939 to it, the largest being MIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($82,361). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MIDLAND KIDS FIRST have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $90,939 in grants to MIDLAND KIDS FIRST, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MIDLAND KIDS FIRST?
- MIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $82,361 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MIDLAND KIDS FIRST 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 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing