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SAGINAW FUTURE INC

SAGINAW FUTURE INC (Michigan) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,285,875 to it, the largest being CONSUMERS ENERGY FOUNDATION ($375,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.3M
Funders on record
19
Grants received
$1.3M
Net assets
$2.6M
17/19 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 26%
01What it does

What Saginaw Future Inc does

Mission

To increase economic opportunity in saginaw county ensuring long term growth and prosperity by fostering investment primarily in advanced manufacturing, medical technology, renewable energy, high tech industries, and professional services.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Department of defense procurement technology assistance

    $300,633 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $300,633.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($5.0M) Expenses 100 ($5.4M) Net assets 100 ($2.1M)2021 Revenue 58 ($2.9M) Expenses 63 ($3.4M) Net assets 81 ($1.7M)2022 Revenue 48 ($2.4M) Expenses 25 ($1.4M) Net assets 128 ($2.7M)2023 Revenue 16 ($811k) Expenses 26 ($1.4M) Net assets 102 ($2.2M)2024 Revenue 22 ($1.1M) Expenses 30 ($1.6M) Net assets 79 ($1.7M)2025 Revenue 45 ($2.3M) Expenses 25 ($1.3M) Net assets 123 ($2.6M)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (45)Expenses (25)Net assets (123)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.8M to $3.1M (+73%).

$2.5M
$1.8M
$3.1M
$2.6M
$2.6M
$3.4M
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 87% · 2021 91% · 2022 27% · 2023 79% · 2024 66% · 2025 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

97% of SAGINAW FUTURE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,360 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$391k
’20
−$449k
’21
$1.1M
’22
−$586k
’23
−$534k
’24
$910k
’25
13
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.

Board chair

Kevin Albosta

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202020212022202320242025
Listed252826293130
Joined·+5+9+4+9+0
No longer listed·211171
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $77k → $214k.

2 of 19 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.

Left out of every figure on this page: $5k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Uaw Region 1-D Cap). These are real filings, and they are not money SAGINAW FUTURE INC raised.

From the IRS filings of SAGINAW FUTURE INC’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

SAGINAW FUTURE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

29%
largest funder
65%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 77% · 2019 63% · 2020 92% · 2021 42% · 2022 37% · 2023 35% — 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

27% of SAGINAW FUTURE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 89% 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

67% of SAGINAW FUTURE INC's grant income comes from Michigan funders.

MI
OH

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $39k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

Against its field

SAGINAW FUTURE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin40% · top quartile
Months of reserve12.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−15% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like SAGINAW FUTURE INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

22% of spending goes to programs.

Program 22%Management 78%Fundraising 0%

Governance

30
board members
97%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

MI

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SAGINAW FUTURE INC: 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 SAGINAW FUTURE INC?
SAGINAW FUTURE INC (Michigan) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,285,875 to it, the largest being CONSUMERS ENERGY FOUNDATION ($375,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SAGINAW FUTURE INC have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,285,875 in grants to SAGINAW FUTURE INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SAGINAW FUTURE INC?
CONSUMERS ENERGY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $375,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SAGINAW FUTURE 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 19 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