Michigan · Nonprofit
SOCIETY OF ACTIVE RETIREES
SOCIETY OF ACTIVE RETIREES (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,500 to it, the largest being MICHIGAN HUMANITIES COUNCIL ($12,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $274k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $17k
- Net assets
- $234k
What Society of Active Retirees does
Mission
Classes and Events for Seniors
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2026 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
We switched an Annual Membership Fee and changed the fee structure for each semester.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Fall Classes - Approximately 400 people - 53 in person or online classes on various topics.
$7,963 spent$52,870 earned by the program25% of program spendingWinter Classes - 119 people - 11 online classes based on the theme of The Future is Now.
$3,294 spent$9,545 earned by the program10% of program spendingSpring Classes - About 407 people - 53 in person and online classes on various topic.
$8,169 spent$47,605 earned by the program26% of program spendingThirteen Special Events and Field Trips, benefiting at least 800 people.
$9,827 spent$13,665 earned by the program31% of program spendingMembership Fees.
$2,599 spent$22,645 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2026 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $31,852.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $73k to $158k (+117%).
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.
45% of SOCIETY OF ACTIVE RETIREES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Chief executive
Debra Yamstein
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $500 → $13k.
From the IRS filings of SOCIETY OF ACTIVE RETIREES’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
SOCIETY OF ACTIVE RETIREES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
79% 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 SOCIETY OF ACTIVE RETIREES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2022 71% · 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 SOCIETY OF ACTIVE RETIREES's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
SOCIETY OF ACTIVE RETIREES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 520 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 520 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Organizations like SOCIETY OF ACTIVE RETIREES
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.
Where the money goes
15% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 SOCIETY OF ACTIVE RETIREES: 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 SOCIETY OF ACTIVE RETIREES?
- SOCIETY OF ACTIVE RETIREES (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,500 to it, the largest being MICHIGAN HUMANITIES COUNCIL ($12,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOCIETY OF ACTIVE RETIREES have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $16,500 in grants to SOCIETY OF ACTIVE RETIREES.
- Who is the largest funder of SOCIETY OF ACTIVE RETIREES?
- MICHIGAN HUMANITIES COUNCIL is the largest funder on record, with $12,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOCIETY OF ACTIVE RETIREES 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 FY2026 (financials across 2022–2026), and the filings of 4 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