Michigan · Nonprofit
MONTCALM AREA READING COUNCIL
MONTCALM AREA READING COUNCIL (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $224,737 to it, the largest being Greenville Area Community Fnd ($202,610). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $93k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $225k
- Net assets
- $113k
What Montcalm Area Reading Council does
Mission
Mission MARC will advance literacy and empower our community through free tutoring, one learner at a time.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Curriculum and materials - We were able to provide books to 7 new tutors and 19 new learners. We were also able to provide updated materials to current voluteers and learners.
$514 spentof which $514 as grants18% of program spendingOutreach - We were able to reach an increased amount of people with 19 new learners registered. We had a 131 percent increase in tutoring hours in 2023.
$1,920 spentof which $1,920 as grants67% of program spendingAssessment - We purchased a system to measure our learners progress with testing.
$435 spentof which $435 as grants15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $2,869.
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.
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 MONTCALM AREA READING COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Amanda Leitch
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $16k → $19k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% 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 MONTCALM AREA READING COUNCIL’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
MONTCALM AREA READING COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% 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
100% 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 MONTCALM AREA READING COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 75% · 2020 83% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 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
90% of MONTCALM AREA READING COUNCIL'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 $22k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $203k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
MONTCALM AREA READING COUNCIL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,386 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,386 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Organizations like MONTCALM AREA READING COUNCIL
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
87%
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 MONTCALM AREA READING COUNCIL: 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 MONTCALM AREA READING COUNCIL?
- MONTCALM AREA READING COUNCIL (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $224,737 to it, the largest being Greenville Area Community Fnd ($202,610). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MONTCALM AREA READING COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $224,737 in grants to MONTCALM AREA READING COUNCIL, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MONTCALM AREA READING COUNCIL?
- Greenville Area Community Fnd is the largest funder on record, with $202,610 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MONTCALM AREA READING COUNCIL 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), 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