Michigan · Nonprofit
OTSEGO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION
OTSEGO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION (Michigan) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,868,074 to it, the largest being OTSEGO COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,786,105). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
OTSEGO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.
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.
- Community Financial Credit Unionshared funderslocal
- Gibbs Christian Education Foundation Incportfolio match
- Ohio Christian Education Network Scholarship Granting Organizationportfolio match
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: 2021 3% · 2022 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of OTSEGO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $167 → $643k.
4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 OTSEGO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION’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
OTSEGO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 OTSEGO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 97% · 2022 100% · 2023 96% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of OTSEGO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION'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 $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Michigan funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M 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.
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.
- Community Financial Credit Unionshared funderslocalMI · backs 4 organizations that share your funders · funds 7 organizations near you
- Gibbs Christian Education Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ohio Christian Education Network Scholarship Granting Organizationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Renewanationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Golden Dome Scholarship Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stanley M Herzog Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Education Freedom Alabamaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The James V Tesoriero Charitable Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Praise Ministry Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Palmetto Promise Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Help the Charityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Scholarships for Kids Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Organizations like OTSEGO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OTSEGO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: 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.
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 OTSEGO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION?
- OTSEGO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION (Michigan) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,868,074 to it, the largest being OTSEGO COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,786,105). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does OTSEGO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $1,868,074 in grants to OTSEGO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OTSEGO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION?
- OTSEGO COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,786,105 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OTSEGO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION 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 5funders 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