Michigan · Nonprofit
Nokomis Learning Center
Nokomis Learning Center (Michigan) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $98,438 to it, the largest being JUSTICE OUTSIDE ($40,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $182k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $98k
- Net assets
- $103k
What Nokomis Learning Center does
Mission
Education on the Culture History & Language of the Anishinaabe
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Seeds of Sustainability - Growing native crops and native medicines to benefit the native students involved and for research possibilities. This will benefit at least 125 individuals on start up and then it will continue.
$36,000 spentof which $36,000 as grants53% of program spendingOrganization Outreach & Education Programs - Lunches for the Elderly & Community. Presentation programs in area school systems. Culture classes on site. Benefits 600 for lunches 2800 students 100 individuals for culture classes
$31,384 spentof which $31,384 as grants47% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $67,384.
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
John Ostrander
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $11k → $176.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Nokomis Learning Center’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
Nokomis Learning Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 Nokomis Learning Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 47% · 2021 50% · 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. 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
59% of Nokomis Learning Center's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $313 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
Nokomis Learning Center runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Nokomis Learning Center
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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Nokomis Learning Center?
- Nokomis Learning Center (Michigan) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $98,438 to it, the largest being JUSTICE OUTSIDE ($40,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Nokomis Learning Center have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $98,438 in grants to Nokomis Learning Center, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Nokomis Learning Center?
- JUSTICE OUTSIDE is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Nokomis Learning Center 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 6 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