Michigan · Nonprofit
THE FUTURES FOUNDATION
THE FUTURES FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $698,396 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ($186,231). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $614k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $698k
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What The Futures Foundation does
Mission
The mission of The Futures Foundation is to be a voice for people with developmental disabilities by helping individuals get access to everyday fundamental needs, facilitating creation of ways to address systemic needs and being a catalyst in driving collaborative lifelong care solutions.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Upon formal committee review and approval of grant requests, The Futures Foundation fulfills such requests for basic needs, skill building opportunities and/or equipment, technology essential/equipment for communication, education, employment; recreation and community programs, otherwise unavailable or inaccessible to the child or adult with special needs. In service and opportunity, over 4,500 individuals and families have been impacted by the foundation - stabilizing home environments, forstering community engagement, providing opportunity and building self-reliance. In addition to direct service, The Futures Foundation was a lead partner in the launch of michigan's direct care work task force and serves as a consistent voice for the caregiving needs of children and adults with developmental disabilities. In addition to work with the michigan direct care work task force, The Futures Foundation is also a partner more broadly wiht the nationally known and focused caregiving entities. Service on advisory committees and looking soon to active engagements in research, together, The Futures Foundation and national partners have a shared belief in garegiver value - inclusive of…
$436,646 spentof which $102,818 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $436,646.
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. 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 2021 to 2022, from $2.9M to $2.1M (−29%).
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.
32% of THE FUTURES FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Michelle Glazier
Executive director
Board chair
James Nicholson
Chairman of the board
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $30k → $320k.
5 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 FUTURES 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
THE FUTURES FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
65% 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 FUTURES FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 47% · 2021 61% · 2022 44% · 2023 42% — 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
17% of THE FUTURES FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 32% 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
53% of THE FUTURES 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 $329k that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $370k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Against its field
THE FUTURES FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like THE FUTURES 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
48%
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 FUTURES FOUNDATION: 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 FUTURES FOUNDATION?
- THE FUTURES FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $698,396 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ($186,231). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE FUTURES FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $698,396 in grants to THE FUTURES FOUNDATION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE FUTURES FOUNDATION?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN is the largest funder on record, with $186,231 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE FUTURES 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.
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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 19 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