Michigan · Nonprofit
THE CRIM FITNESS FOUNDATION INC
THE CRIM FITNESS FOUNDATION INC (Michigan) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,670,608 to it, the largest being CHARLES STEWART MOTT FOUNDATION ($21,910,500). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $33M
- Net assets
- $3.4M
What The Crim Fitness Foundation Inc does
Mission
The purpose of the crim fitness foundation,inc.(the crim)is to promote participatory health and fitness activities, which benefit the greater flint community. These activities include operating a world class road race in the city of flint, michigan; facilitating community partnerships promoting healthy lifestyles, designing and offering programs and informational resources to promote active living; and fostering community pride and cooperation among residents of the greater flint area. In carrying out this purpose, all expenditures of the crim must be specifically permitted by section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code and as amended.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Neighborhood impact snap-ed and foodcorps: nutrition programming works in all the flint community schools and 4 additional academy schools in the flint area. Snap-ed nutrition education uses a myplate curriculum to increase the consumption of fruit and vegetables and increase daily physical activity of both students and parents/caregivers. Foodcorps (americorps) service members teach garden based nutrition education to students in 8 flint community schools who support healthy school lunches. Safe routes to school: in 2024 nutrition coordinators supported bike clubs at schools and taught bike safety and repair skills to students. Additionally the safe routes to school manager works to support active transportation policy changes to ensure students can access routes that are safe for commuting to and from school. In association with srts goals, in 2024, the crim maintained a flint bike coalition which is a social meet up for bike enthusiasts in the county to discuss how to make riding safer. Michigan health endowment fund: in 2021 the crim started, with partners, a flint and genesee food policy council. The food policy council is still in the early stages of development, but the…
$1,144,661 spent39% of program spendingThe crim sports program provides sports programs to youth ages 5-13 with fundamental sports clinics and leagues at not cost at 13 sites across the city. The crim offers 10 different sports to over 10,000 youth each year.
$466,810 spent16% of program spendingRace and training the hap caresource crim festival of races began in 1977 as the "bobby crim race for special olympics" by then-michigan speaker of the house, bobby crim. The inaugural race's mission was to promote and raise funds for michigan special olympics. Over the past 47 years, "the crim" has evolved into the hap crim festival of races, as well as other events/races in a year-round series, and the crim fitness foundation. While it still draws elite racers from all over the world, it has grown immensely in numbers and in its mission. The festival now serves to promote and celebrate healthy, active lifestyles all year long for people of all fitness levels, as well as functions as a tool to bring awareness to the work of the foundation and the promotion of all things related to preventative health. The hap caresource crim festival of races, which takes place the fourth saturday of august, includes the following events: 10-mile, 5-mile and 5 kilometers, michigan one-mile, and a teddy bear trot for youth racers. The crim's flagship 10-mile race has grown to be one of the largest 10-mile races in the nation and the largest in the state of michigan. The event is widely recognized…
$851,648 spent29% of program spendingMindfulness initiative in 2024, the mindfulness initiative team (5.5 fte) reached a total of 2,008 participants. Participants were served in various ways across five sectors - civic, community, youth & education, business and health. Programs included free community yoga classes for youth, adults and seniors; social emotional learning for incarcerated individuals; profefssional development for educators; evidence based mindfulness training and workshops; and crim fellowship and ambassador programs. The mindful advisory board continues with thirty-five community leaders. The initiative is also supported by a growing mindful flint network with 95 ambassadors, 12 crim mindful fellows, 11 communtiy yoga/minfulness teachers and 5 sector working groups (business, health, education, community, and civic). The network helps to ensure this work is as inclusive, relevant, impactful and sustainable as possible.
$504,550 spent17% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,967,669.
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 2022 to 2023, from $5.8M to $3.6M (−37%).
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: 2022 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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
Lauren Holaly-Zembo
CEO
Board chair
Diane Lechota
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 11 funders, grant income fell $4.3M → $1.6M.
6 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 CRIM FITNESS FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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
THE CRIM FITNESS FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
30% 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 CRIM FITNESS FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 67% · 2019 71% · 2020 74% · 2021 75% · 2022 69% · 2023 50% — 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
48% of THE CRIM FITNESS FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% give in more than one year at all.
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
98% of THE CRIM FITNESS FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Government funding THE CRIM FITNESS FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $180k on record.
- Corporation for National and Community Service$130k
- Department of Agriculture$50k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
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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
85% 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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE CRIM FITNESS FOUNDATION INC?
- THE CRIM FITNESS FOUNDATION INC (Michigan) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,670,608 to it, the largest being CHARLES STEWART MOTT FOUNDATION ($21,910,500). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CRIM FITNESS FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $32,670,608 in grants to THE CRIM FITNESS FOUNDATION INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CRIM FITNESS FOUNDATION INC?
- CHARLES STEWART MOTT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $21,910,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CRIM FITNESS FOUNDATION 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.
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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 39 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