Michigan · Nonprofit
MUSKEGON AREA FIRST
MUSKEGON AREA FIRST (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $481,819 to it, the largest being MUSKEGON LAKESHORE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION ($323,290). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $482k
- Net assets
- $95k
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.
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: 2020 1% · 2021 11% · 2022 6% · 2023 21% · 2024 17% · 2025 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
58% of MUSKEGON AREA FIRST’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $64k → $100k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 MUSKEGON AREA FIRST’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
How concentrated its funding is
MUSKEGON AREA FIRST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 53% · 2020 95% · 2021 92% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
Where its funders are
100% of MUSKEGON AREA FIRST's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
Against its field
MUSKEGON AREA FIRST has grown faster than half of the 1,986 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,986 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding MUSKEGON AREA FIRST receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.2M on record.
- Department of Defense$1.9M
- Department of Agriculture$153k
- Department of Commerce$146k
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 MUSKEGON AREA 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.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MUSKEGON AREA 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 MUSKEGON AREA FIRST?
- MUSKEGON AREA FIRST (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $481,819 to it, the largest being MUSKEGON LAKESHORE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION ($323,290). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MUSKEGON AREA FIRST have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $481,819 in grants to MUSKEGON AREA FIRST, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MUSKEGON AREA FIRST?
- MUSKEGON LAKESHORE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $323,290 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MUSKEGON AREA 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.
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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 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing