Michigan · Nonprofit
THE ARC MUSKEGON
THE ARC MUSKEGON (Michigan) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $525,752 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MUSKEGON COUNTY ($275,801). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $484k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $526k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What The Arc Muskegon does
Mission
The arc of muskegon's mission is to provide advocacy, education, and support services to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families and actively support their inclusion, equality, and participation in the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Whisker room
$155,099 spent$39,441 earned by the program39% of program spendingAdvocacy - provides information and referrals, parental support, public policy, educational seminars, and community outreach to families and individuals with cognitive and developmental disabilities.
$116,540 spent$85,597 earned by the program30% of program spendingConsumer voice - participants of this program serve on various performance improvement committees and work groups, and participate in on-going training activities that promote self advocacy.
$76,675 spent$20,396 earned by the program20% of program spendingRepresentative payee and trust services - a representative payee manages benefits by paying living expenses from ssi, ssdi, or social security income. Bills are paid through a mutually agreed upon budget.
$44,530 spent$69,860 earned by the program11% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $392,844.
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.
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 $685k to $1.2M (+80%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $16k → $89k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 THE ARC MUSKEGON’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
THE ARC MUSKEGON leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% 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
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 THE ARC MUSKEGON.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 71% · 2019 67% · 2020 85% · 2021 49% · 2022 37% · 2023 59% — 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.
Where its funders are
55% of THE ARC MUSKEGON'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 $234k that is directly attributable, 59% of it comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $291k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like THE ARC MUSKEGON
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
42%
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 THE ARC MUSKEGON: 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 THE ARC MUSKEGON?
- THE ARC MUSKEGON (Michigan) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $525,752 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MUSKEGON COUNTY ($275,801). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE ARC MUSKEGON have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $525,752 in grants to THE ARC MUSKEGON, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ARC MUSKEGON?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MUSKEGON COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $275,801 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ARC MUSKEGON 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 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