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Muskegon County Catholic Education Foundation Inc

Muskegon County Catholic Education Foundation Inc (Michigan) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $782,978 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MUSKEGON COUNTY ($417,800). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$1.0M
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$783k
Net assets
$7.7M
8/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 14%
01What it does

What Muskegon County Catholic Education Foundation Inc does

Mission

To provide financial support to the Catholic schools in Muskegon County, Michigan. The Foundation provides fundraising, investment and endowments to assist the Catholic schools and provide tuition assistance.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Grants for operating Muskegon Catholic Schools. (Approximately 350 pre-k through 12th grade students in attendance)

    $735,114 spentof which $735,114 as grants
    54% of program spending
  2. Tuition assistance for students of the Muskegon Catholic Schools. (Approximately 250 students received assistance)

    $618,722 spentof which $618,722 as grants
    46% of program spending
  3. Project specific grants to the Muskegon Catholic Schools. (Approximately 350 pre-k through 12th grade students in attendance)

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,353,836.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.3M) Expenses 100 ($1.4M) Net assets 100 ($9.7M)2018 Revenue 94 ($1.2M) Expenses 98 ($1.3M) Net assets 104 ($10M)2019 Revenue 130 ($1.6M) Expenses 141 ($2.0M) Net assets 98 ($9.5M)2020 Revenue 101 ($1.3M) Expenses 108 ($1.5M) Net assets 75 ($7.3M)2021 Revenue 62 ($778k) Expenses 73 ($1.0M) Net assets 91 ($8.8M)2022 Revenue 86 ($1.1M) Expenses 107 ($1.5M) Net assets 74 ($7.2M)2023 Revenue 86 ($1.1M) Expenses 98 ($1.4M) Net assets 73 ($7.1M)2024 Revenue 72 ($901k) Expenses 88 ($1.2M) Net assets 0 ($0)2025 Revenue 82 ($1.0M) Expenses 103 ($1.4M) Net assets 79 ($7.7M)
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Revenue (82)Expenses (103)Net assets (79)Peer revenue range

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 $7.2M to $0 (−100%).

$9.7M
$10M
$9.5M
$7.3M
$8.9M
$7.3M
$7.2M
$0
$7.9M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

83% of Muskegon County Catholic Education Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 9 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$124k
’17
−$167k
’18
−$319k
’19
−$214k
’20
−$231k
’21
−$400k
’22
−$279k
’23
−$317k
’24
−$398k
’25
0.3
months of
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

Tom Ladd

Board Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed151615111515151616
Joined·+1+5+4+11+3+2+1+4
No longer listed·06873204
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $95k → $63k.

7 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 County Catholic Education Foundation 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

Muskegon County Catholic Education Foundation Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

97% 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 Muskegon County Catholic Education Foundation Inc.

53%
largest funder
94%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 96% · 2019 62% · 2020 50% · 2021 45% · 2022 64% · 2023 63% — 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

67% of Muskegon County Catholic Education Foundation Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

96% of Muskegon County Catholic Education Foundation Inc'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 $28k that is directly attributable, 77% of it comes from funders outside Michigan, across 3 states.

IL
WI
MI

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $755k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Muskegon County Catholic Education Foundation Inc's revenue fell 18% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−39% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 5%Fundraising 0%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

48%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MI

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Muskegon Catholic Schools · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds Muskegon County Catholic Education Foundation Inc?
Muskegon County Catholic Education Foundation Inc (Michigan) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $782,978 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MUSKEGON COUNTY ($417,800). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Muskegon County Catholic Education Foundation Inc have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $782,978 in grants to Muskegon County Catholic Education Foundation Inc, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Muskegon County Catholic Education Foundation Inc?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MUSKEGON COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $417,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Muskegon County Catholic Education Foundation 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.

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 12 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