Michigan · Nonprofit
RACE FOR THE KIDS
RACE FOR THE KIDS (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,356 to it, the largest being Robert W Hemelgarn Memorial Foundation ($1,250). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $98k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $252k
What Race for the Kids does
Mission
To assist familities in and around ou community that have children who are suffering from life threatening medical illnesses. We assist with medical bills, hospital activities, giftcards for gas and food, funeral expenses, home remodels needed for medical issues, and other expenses relating to an individual's quality of life care while battling illnesses.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
5k race and 1 mile family walk, which raises money through donations, registrations, and sponsorship fees, in order to provide financial support for medical expenses for children with severe or life-threatening illnesses.
$55,730 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $55,730.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $141k to $210k (+49%).
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 RACE FOR THE KIDS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $250 → $301.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 RACE FOR THE KIDS’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
RACE FOR THE KIDS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% 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: 2018 100% · 2022 82% · 2023 83% — 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
RACE FOR THE KIDS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $106 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
RACE FOR THE KIDS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like RACE FOR THE KIDS
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RACE FOR THE KIDS: 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds RACE FOR THE KIDS?
- RACE FOR THE KIDS (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,356 to it, the largest being Robert W Hemelgarn Memorial Foundation ($1,250). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RACE FOR THE KIDS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $2,356 in grants to RACE FOR THE KIDS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RACE FOR THE KIDS?
- Robert W Hemelgarn Memorial Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RACE FOR THE KIDS 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 3 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing