Michigan · Nonprofit
RISING KITES
RISING KITES (Michigan) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $165,447 to it, the largest being BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($76,100). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
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.
- Lakeland Health Foundation Benton Harbor/Stjosephlocal
- Tony R Wells Foundationportfolio match
- Global Down Syndrome Foundationportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $151 → $61k.
6 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 87% 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 RISING KITES’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
RISING KITES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
87% 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 RISING KITES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 82% — 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
87% of RISING KITES'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 $22k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from Michigan funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $143k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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. Your 10 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Lakeland Health Foundation Benton Harbor/StjosephlocalMI · funds 32 organizations near you
- Tony R Wells Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Global Down Syndrome Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Marino Family Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Charles E & Carol J Miller Familyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Long Family Foundation (Formerly Reid Long Scholarship Fund)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Vivint Giveback Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Colten Cowell Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ruth and Warren Clark Legacy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Innovating Worthy Projects Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Edward M & Henrietta M Knabusch Charitable Trust 2portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Fox Family Foundationportfolio 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 RISING KITES
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RISING KITES: 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 RISING KITES?
- RISING KITES (Michigan) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $165,447 to it, the largest being BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($76,100). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does RISING KITES have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $165,447 in grants to RISING KITES, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RISING KITES?
- BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $76,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RISING KITES 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 2024–2024), and the filings of 10funders 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