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SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC

SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC (Michigan) receives grants from 239 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,640,148 to it, the largest being SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ($12,279,002). 161 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$17M
Revenue FY2024
239
Funders on record
$25M
Grants received
$41M
Net assets
161/239 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 41%

Against its field

SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 303 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin40% · top quartile
Months of reserve7.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)20% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 303 recreation & sports nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

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 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 ($8.2M) Expenses 100 ($5.0M) Net assets 100 ($17M)2021 Revenue 123 ($10M) Expenses 104 ($5.2M) Net assets 133 ($23M)2022 Revenue 134 ($11M) Expenses 164 ($8.3M) Net assets 135 ($23M)2023 Revenue 189 ($15M) Expenses 187 ($9.4M) Net assets 198 ($33M)2024 Revenue 210 ($17M) Expenses 206 ($10M) Net assets 243 ($41M)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (210)Expenses (206)Net assets (243)Peer revenue range

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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 11% · 2021 22% · 2022 23% · 2023 8% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

84% of SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (11% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 328 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$3.2M
20
$4.8M
21
$2.7M
22
$6.0M
23
$6.8M
24
7.8
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 85 funders to 101 funders, grant income rose $1.6M → $3.0M.

30 of 239 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)14% 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 239 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

SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

72% 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC.

50%
largest funder
62%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 39% · 2019 41% · 2020 40% · 2021 44% · 2022 54% · 2023 59%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.

How long its funders stay

52% of SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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

SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 26 states in all.

VT
ID
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
DE
TN
NC
DC
TX
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. $3.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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.

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. Your 239 funders put you well-backed among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC

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

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 3%Fundraising 12%

Governance

22
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

95%

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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN 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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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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC?
SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC (Michigan) receives grants from 239 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,640,148 to it, the largest being SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ($12,279,002). 161 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC have?
IRS filings report 239 organizations giving $24,640,148 in grants to SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC, 161 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC?
SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC is the largest funder on record, with $12,279,002 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 239funders 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