Michigan · Nonprofit
MRC Industries Inc
MRC Industries Inc (Michigan) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,987,797 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN ($729,277). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.2M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $8.0M
What MRC Industries Inc does
Mission
MRC Industries, Inc. champions the potential of individuals with disabilities and mental illness by promoting equity, inspiring independence, and creating inclusive pathways to thrive within the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
The organization launched a thrift store to further its mission of supporting individuals with disabilities thrive in the community. The thrift store provides affordable goods, job training, and sustainable resource use. The store receives donated clothing, household items, and other usable goods from community members. These items are sorted, processed, and made available for sale at low, accessible prices.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
The purpose of the McKercher program is to provide skill building and employment services to individuals with developmental disabilties and other related disabilities which promote community inclusion and participation and independence. Person centered services are provided in a number of ways including participation in paid work, volunteering, art and other facility and community based activities.
$1,557,653 spent$1,696,344 earned by the program36% of program spendingThe purpose of BridgeWays is to support individuals with severe and persistent mental illness to gain skills and utilize community resources and natural supports to achieve their potential as full participants in community life. Person centered services provided include ongoing assessment of needs, planning, linking, coordinating and monitoring and are designed to promote recovery and independence for each individual.
$1,365,012 spent$1,832,440 earned by the program31% of program spendingThe purpose of Community Employment is to assist individuals with disabilities to obtain and maintain community based employment. Person centered services provided include job development and placement, job coaching and ongoing support as needed in order to assist the individual to be productive contributing member of our community.
$1,426,866 spent$1,945,365 earned by the program33% of program spendingOther
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,349,531.
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 $6.4M to $7.5M (+18%).
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: 2021 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
10% of MRC Industries Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (16% 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
Dan Pontius
CEO
Board chair
Andrew Wenzel
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $156k → $329k.
3 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 MRC Industries Inc’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
MRC Industries Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
75% 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 MRC Industries Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 61% · 2019 33% · 2020 49% · 2021 57% · 2022 59% · 2023 43% — diversifying over time.
“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
70% of MRC Industries Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
90% of MRC Industries Inc's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $569k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
MRC Industries Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,060 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,060 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding MRC Industries Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $33k on record.
- General Services Administration$33k
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 MRC Industries Inc
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
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 MRC Industries Inc: 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 MRC Industries Inc?
- MRC Industries Inc (Michigan) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,987,797 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN ($729,277). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MRC Industries Inc have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,987,797 in grants to MRC Industries Inc, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MRC Industries Inc?
- UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN is the largest funder on record, with $729,277 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MRC Industries Inc 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 20 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