Michigan · Nonprofit
PENNIES FROM HEAVEN FOUNDATION
PENNIES FROM HEAVEN FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,570 to it, the largest being DTE ENERGY FOUNDATION ($2,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
PENNIES FROM HEAVEN FOUNDATION receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $3k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,771 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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.
- Mercy Health Partnerslocalportfolio match
- Fabiano Foundationportfolio match
- Keweenaw Community Foundationportfolio 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.
1% of PENNIES FROM HEAVEN FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $3k → $25.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 PENNIES FROM HEAVEN 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
PENNIES FROM HEAVEN FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% — broadly stable.
“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 PENNIES FROM HEAVEN FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $70 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.
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.
- Mercy Health Partnerslocalportfolio matchMI · funds 23 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Fabiano Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Keweenaw Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Peter J & Constance M Cracchiolo Fndnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mt Pleasant Area Community Fndportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ruby McCoy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Foundation of the Upper Peninsulaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- James a Ruppe Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Frankenmuth Community Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Foundation of St Clair Countyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mike and Sharon Seelye Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of the LakeshorelocalMI · funds 48 organizations near you
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 PENNIES FROM HEAVEN 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Community Foundation for Muskegon County · exempt
- The Paul C Johnson Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PENNIES FROM HEAVEN 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.
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 PENNIES FROM HEAVEN FOUNDATION?
- PENNIES FROM HEAVEN FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,570 to it, the largest being DTE ENERGY FOUNDATION ($2,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PENNIES FROM HEAVEN FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $2,570 in grants to PENNIES FROM HEAVEN FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PENNIES FROM HEAVEN FOUNDATION?
- DTE ENERGY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PENNIES FROM HEAVEN 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2funders 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