Michigan · Nonprofit
MOTOR CITY TENNIS CLUB
MOTOR CITY TENNIS CLUB (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $133,200 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ($116,400). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $55k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $133k
- Net assets
- $36k
What Motor City Tennis Club does
Mission
Increase tennis participation and provide affordable cost tennis programs in underserved communities
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Compensation to 10 independent contractors to provide tennis instructional services to the Greater Detroit Tennis Alliance consisting of Motor City Tennis Club and 5 additional Community Tennis Associations geographically distributed throughout metropolitan Detroit. Programs serve 30 - 50 people per site, conducted seasonally (spring, summer, fall, and winter). Fall and winter programs are conducted at indoor facilities.
$25,000 spentof which $25,000 as grants93% of program spendingAdditional support from the Midwest Tennis and Education Foundation to fund program expenses such as court rental fees and equipment purchases, serving the same populations as described in the preceding section.
$2,000 spentof which $2,000 as grants7% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $27,000.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $15k to $36k (+143%).
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.
52% of MOTOR CITY TENNIS CLUB’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $20k → $13k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 87% 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 MOTOR CITY TENNIS 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
MOTOR CITY TENNIS CLUB leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% 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 MOTOR CITY TENNIS CLUB.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 69% · 2022 100% · 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
87% of MOTOR CITY TENNIS CLUB'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 $17k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Michigan, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $116k 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
MOTOR CITY TENNIS CLUB runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,282 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,282 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like MOTOR CITY TENNIS 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 MOTOR CITY TENNIS 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 MOTOR CITY TENNIS CLUB?
- MOTOR CITY TENNIS CLUB (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $133,200 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ($116,400). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MOTOR CITY TENNIS CLUB have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $133,200 in grants to MOTOR CITY TENNIS CLUB, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MOTOR CITY TENNIS CLUB?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN is the largest funder on record, with $116,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MOTOR CITY TENNIS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 2 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