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RAMPANT LION FOUNDATION THE DEKE FOUNDATION

RAMPANT LION FOUNDATION THE DEKE FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $752,476 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($591,394). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$418k
Revenue FY2025
8
Funders on record
$752k
Grants received
$3.9M
Net assets
4/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 66%

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($920k) Expenses 100 ($92k) Net assets 100 ($1.5M)2018 Revenue 24 ($220k) Expenses 312 ($287k) Net assets 96 ($1.5M)2019 Revenue 43 ($393k) Expenses 375 ($344k) Net assets 100 ($1.5M)2020 Revenue 43 ($400k) Expenses 437 ($401k) Net assets 93 ($1.4M)2021 Revenue 91 ($835k) Expenses 378 ($347k) Net assets 142 ($2.2M)2022 Revenue 125 ($1.1M) Expenses 298 ($273k) Net assets 193 ($3.0M)2023 Revenue 36 ($333k) Expenses 253 ($232k) Net assets 203 ($3.1M)2024 Revenue 111 ($1.0M) Expenses 324 ($297k) Net assets 250 ($3.8M)2025 Revenue 45 ($418k) Expenses 347 ($319k) Net assets 257 ($3.9M)
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Revenue (45)Expenses (347)Net assets (257)

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.

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2018
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2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$828k
17
$67k
18
$50k
19
$2k
20
$488k
21
$875k
22
$100k
23
$724k
24
$100k
25
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months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $2k → $26k.

5 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)85% 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 RAMPANT LION FOUNDATION THE DEKE 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

RAMPANT LION FOUNDATION THE DEKE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

85% 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 RAMPANT LION FOUNDATION THE DEKE FOUNDATION.

79%
largest funder
91%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 88% · 2019 55% · 2020 65% · 2021 96% · 2022 58% · 2023 49%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

67% of RAMPANT LION FOUNDATION THE DEKE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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

85% of RAMPANT LION FOUNDATION THE DEKE FOUNDATION'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 $117k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Michigan, across 3 states.

DE
LA
FL

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. $636k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 statesis 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.

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 RAMPANT LION FOUNDATION THE DEKE 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

28% of spending goes to programs.

Program 28%Management 33%Fundraising 39%

Governance

8
board members
0%
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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RAMPANT LION FOUNDATION THE DEKE 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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Questions and answers

Who funds RAMPANT LION FOUNDATION THE DEKE FOUNDATION?
RAMPANT LION FOUNDATION THE DEKE FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $752,476 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($591,394). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does RAMPANT LION FOUNDATION THE DEKE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $752,476 in grants to RAMPANT LION FOUNDATION THE DEKE FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RAMPANT LION FOUNDATION THE DEKE FOUNDATION?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $591,394 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RAMPANT LION FOUNDATION THE DEKE 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 8funders 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