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OAKLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION

OAKLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $913,374 to it, the largest being THE GARDEN PARTY ROSS ($603,292). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.1M
Revenue FY2025
16
Funders on record
$913k
Grants received
$13M
Net assets
10/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 21%

Against its field

OAKLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin59% · top quartile
Months of reserve4.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($616k) Expenses 100 ($310k) Net assets 100 ($5.6M)2018 Revenue 130 ($802k) Expenses 88 ($272k) Net assets 110 ($6.2M)2019 Revenue 117 ($723k) Expenses 97 ($301k) Net assets 119 ($6.7M)2020 Revenue 170 ($1.0M) Expenses 115 ($356k) Net assets 126 ($7.0M)2021 Revenue 141 ($866k) Expenses 164 ($510k) Net assets 159 ($8.9M)2022 Revenue 144 ($888k) Expenses 160 ($497k) Net assets 142 ($7.9M)2023 Revenue 318 ($2.0M) Expenses 204 ($634k) Net assets 178 ($9.9M)2024 Revenue 117 ($719k) Expenses 155 ($482k) Net assets 200 ($11M)2025 Revenue 184 ($1.1M) Expenses 151 ($469k) Net assets 224 ($13M)
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Revenue (184)Expenses (151)Net assets (224)Peer revenue range

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

50% of OAKLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,312 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$306k
17
$530k
18
$422k
19
$692k
20
$356k
21
$391k
22
$1.3M
23
$237k
24
$663k
25
4.2
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $132k → $21k.

4 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)19% 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 OAKLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION’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

OAKLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

91% 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 OAKLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION.

66%
largest funder
83%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 87% · 2019 82% · 2020 95% · 2021 73% · 2022 61% · 2023 62%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

60% of OAKLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

100% of OAKLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Michigan funders.

MI

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

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Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $173k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 16 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding OAKLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $57.4M on record.

Federal$57.4M
grants $57.4Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Education$52.5M
  • Department of Labor$4.0M
  • Department of Justice$867k

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 OAKLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Michigan

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

70%

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

  • Oakland Community College · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OAKLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds OAKLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION?
OAKLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $913,374 to it, the largest being THE GARDEN PARTY ROSS ($603,292). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does OAKLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $913,374 in grants to OAKLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of OAKLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION?
THE GARDEN PARTY ROSS is the largest funder on record, with $603,292 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like OAKLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION 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 16funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing