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ST JOSEPH PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION

ST JOSEPH PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,720,457 to it, the largest being BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($3,389,460). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$1.4M
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$6.7M
Net assets
$2.0M
10/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 74%
01What it does

What St Joseph Public Schools Foundation does

Mission

Raise and distribute resources to enrich the education of students in the st. Joseph public schools.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Raise and distribute resources to enrich the education of students in the st. Joseph public schools.

    $1,582,274 spentof which $1,575,874 as grants
    100% of program spending
  2. Raise and distribute resources to enrich the education of students in the st. Joseph public schools.

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,582,274.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($633k) Expenses 100 ($593k) Net assets 100 ($1.1M)2018 Revenue 308 ($2.0M) Expenses 228 ($1.4M) Net assets 150 ($1.6M)2019 Revenue 82 ($521k) Expenses 210 ($1.2M) Net assets 90 ($990k)2020 Revenue 93 ($588k) Expenses 101 ($598k) Net assets 94 ($1.0M)2021 Revenue 249 ($1.6M) Expenses 91 ($539k) Net assets 195 ($2.2M)2022 Revenue 243 ($1.5M) Expenses 156 ($924k) Net assets 240 ($2.6M)2023 Revenue 224 ($1.4M) Expenses 262 ($1.6M) Net assets 236 ($2.6M)2024 Revenue 221 ($1.4M) Expenses 305 ($1.8M) Net assets 180 ($2.0M)
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Revenue (221)Expenses (305)Net assets (180)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $1.2M to $2.3M (+87%).

$1.2M
$2.3M
$2.0M
$2.1M
$3.0M
$3.6M
$3.6M
$2.8M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$40k
’17
$598k
’18
−$725k
’19
−$10k
’20
$1.0M
’21
$616k
’22
−$130k
’23
−$412k
’24
16
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.

Chief executive

Jennifer Havlik

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed2320191819191818
Joined·+0+1+0+2+0+1+0
No longer listed·3211020
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $296k → $719k.

5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 ST JOSEPH PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION’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

ST JOSEPH PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

76% 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 ST JOSEPH PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION.

50%
largest funder
94%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 85% · 2019 77% · 2020 76% · 2021 65% · 2022 40% · 2023 45% — 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

38% of ST JOSEPH PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

52% of ST JOSEPH PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION'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 $3.2M that is directly attributable, 55% of it comes from Michigan funders.

MI
MA
OH
NJ
CT
KY

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

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’21
’22
’23
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.5M 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like ST JOSEPH PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 6%Fundraising 0%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

41%

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

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • St Joseph Public Schools · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds ST JOSEPH PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION?
ST JOSEPH PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,720,457 to it, the largest being BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($3,389,460). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does ST JOSEPH PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $6,720,457 in grants to ST JOSEPH PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ST JOSEPH PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION?
BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,389,460 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ST JOSEPH PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 16 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