Michigan · Nonprofit
SOARING ABOVE IONIA
SOARING ABOVE IONIA (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,235 to it, the largest being GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($13,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $64k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $13k
- Net assets
- $-9487
What Soaring Above Ionia does
Mission
Provide all teens the ability to build sef-confidence, integrity and the leadership qualities needed to become responsible and productive members of society
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Mentoring program: 499 members attended this program in 2023. 42 different subjects were covered including bullying, how to build self-confidence, goal setting, working through conflict, grief and peer pressure. Open 197 days and averaged 12 teens per day for 2023.
$37,605 spent54% of program spendingMeals and snacks were provided on a daily basis. Attendance for 2023 was 2285. One local business is donating monthly to help offset the cost of food. The only food provided is in individual servings and wrapped items due to covid-19. This has still caused the cost of food to rise drastically. Rise in inflation also has increased the cost of food compared to previous years.
$28,233 spentof which $6,000 as grants40% of program spendingHomework rescue was offered every day on site at center when it was open. President also provided one on one mentoring at local high schools. One teen at alternative high school and 6 teens at public school. Homework rescue had 5 teens that attended more than one day of homework rescue in 2023.
$4,144 spent6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $69,982.
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. 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 2018 to 2019, from $31k to $53k (+69%).
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.
100% of SOARING ABOVE IONIA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $0 → $13k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 SOARING ABOVE IONIA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 2 of 3 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
SOARING ABOVE IONIA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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
100% 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 SOARING ABOVE IONIA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of SOARING ABOVE IONIA'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k 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.
Against its field
SOARING ABOVE IONIA has grown faster than half of the 4,682 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,682 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like SOARING ABOVE IONIA
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 SOARING ABOVE IONIA: 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 SOARING ABOVE IONIA?
- SOARING ABOVE IONIA (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,235 to it, the largest being GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($13,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SOARING ABOVE IONIA have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $13,235 in grants to SOARING ABOVE IONIA, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOARING ABOVE IONIA?
- GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $13,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOARING ABOVE IONIA 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 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