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PHOENIX SOCIETY INC

PHOENIX SOCIETY INC (Michigan) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,332,261 to it, the largest being Allosource ($1,732,525). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$2.4M
Funders on record
50
Grants received
$5.3M
Net assets
$1.5M
27/50 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 57%
01What it does

What Phoenix Society Inc does

Mission

The organization was formed in 1977 to connect with burn survivors, families, healthcare professionals, burn centers, the fire industry, and donors to provide burn recovery support, improve the quality of burn care and prevent burn injury. The organization's mission is: building a community for transformation healing. For over 4 decades, thousands of burn survivors have found comfort, support, guidance, and community in the same place; the phoenix society for burn survivors.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Support services the phoenix society is the leading source for long term recovery services for those impacted by burn injuries. The foundation of our work is peer support, education and working to advocate for quality care and prevention. Programs and resources support long term social and emotional healing, build awareness for burn survivors, and prevent burn injury through legislative advocacy. The focus is on addressing the social and emotional aspects of burn recovery and providing an environment for peer support and education of those impacted by burn injuries. All age groups are served. Virtual access is expanding with online courses, virtual peer supporter training, and a digital resource library. The phoenix soar (survivors offering assistance in recovery) program is a foundational activity and is designed to provide formal training within the hospital setting for survivors and family members to offer one on one peer support to other burn survivors and their loved ones affected by a burn injury. Training is also provided to healthcare providers on how to implement and sustain the program in the hospital setting. The program is now available in over 75 burn centers across…

    $1,670,109 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,670,109.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.4M) Expenses 100 ($2.2M) Net assets 100 ($4.6M)2018 Revenue 92 ($2.2M) Expenses 113 ($2.5M) Net assets 88 ($4.0M)2019 Revenue 84 ($2.0M) Expenses 145 ($3.2M) Net assets 63 ($2.9M)2020 Revenue 125 ($3.0M) Expenses 103 ($2.3M) Net assets 75 ($3.4M)2021 Revenue 99 ($2.4M) Expenses 110 ($2.4M) Net assets 74 ($3.4M)2022 Revenue 71 ($1.7M) Expenses 120 ($2.7M) Net assets 49 ($2.2M)2023 Revenue 77 ($1.8M) Expenses 129 ($2.8M) Net assets 28 ($1.3M)2024 Revenue 99 ($2.4M) Expenses 96 ($2.1M) Net assets 32 ($1.5M)
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Revenue (99)Expenses (96)Net assets (32)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $4.2M to $3.0M (−28%).

$4.8M
$4.2M
$3.0M
$3.8M
$3.5M
$3.3M
$2.6M
$1.6M
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$175k
’17
−$322k
’18
−$1.2M
’19
$692k
’20
−$82k
’21
−$971k
’22
−$1.0M
’23
$246k
’24
2.8
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.

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Listed1615171720171715
Joined·+3+3+6+3+5+2+1
No longer listed·4160823
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 21 funders, grant income fell $834k → $472k.

10 of 50 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 PHOENIX SOCIETY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 50 funders by total. 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

PHOENIX SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

88% 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 PHOENIX SOCIETY INC.

32%
largest funder
64%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 49% · 2019 43% · 2020 45% · 2021 36% · 2022 30% · 2023 37% — 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

52% of PHOENIX SOCIETY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

PHOENIX SOCIETY INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 18 states in all.

IL
WI
NY
MA
NV
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NC
LA
TX
FL

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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

Organizations like PHOENIX SOCIETY INC

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 13%Fundraising 8%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

71%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 13 states

AK
ME
IL
CT
CA
CO
KY
AZ
KS
AR
AL
GA
FL

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Questions and answers

Who funds PHOENIX SOCIETY INC?
PHOENIX SOCIETY INC (Michigan) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,332,261 to it, the largest being Allosource ($1,732,525). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PHOENIX SOCIETY INC have?
IRS filings report 50 organizations giving $5,332,261 in grants to PHOENIX SOCIETY INC, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PHOENIX SOCIETY INC?
Allosource is the largest funder on record, with $1,732,525 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PHOENIX SOCIETY 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.

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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 50 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