Michigan · Nonprofit
THE JAMES AND GRACE LEE BOGGS SCHOOL
THE JAMES AND GRACE LEE BOGGS SCHOOL (Michigan) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $320,974 to it, the largest being BOGGS EDUCATIONAL CENTER PROJECT TEAM ($166,020). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $321k
- Net assets
- $602k
What The James and Grace Lee Boggs School does
Mission
The mission of the boggs school is to nurture creative, critical thinkers who contribute to the well-being of their communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The James and Grace Lee Boggs School (also known as The Boggs School) is a public school academy (charter school) serving students in grades K 8 on Detroits east side. The school is chartered by Eastern Michigan University. The school implements Place-Based Education, a model of instruction focused on place, where the geography, history, community members, problems, and resources of childrensconcentric communities form the foundation for academic and artistic learning. It is a community-based school, as the community has been part of the visioning and building of the school itself. Community Teachers, non-certified teachers from the arts and local communities, teach Boggs students their arts and skills in cooperation with the certified classroom teachers.The 2024-2025 school year was the school's twelth year in operation, serving 171 children and their families in 10 classrooms.
$2,142,619 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,142,619.
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 2018 to 2019, from $394k to $526k (+33%).
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: 2017 92% · 2018 91% · 2019 90% · 2020 93% · 2021 98% · 2022 97% · 2023 91% · 2024 93% · 2025 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of THE JAMES AND GRACE LEE BOGGS SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $47k → $238.
5 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 JAMES AND GRACE LEE BOGGS SCHOOL’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 JAMES AND GRACE LEE BOGGS SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 JAMES AND GRACE LEE BOGGS SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 70% · 2019 100% · 2020 97% · 2021 66% · 2022 48% · 2023 100% — 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
50% of THE JAMES AND GRACE LEE BOGGS SCHOOL's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 44% 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
81% of THE JAMES AND GRACE LEE BOGGS SCHOOL's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $109k 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.
Against its field
THE JAMES AND GRACE LEE BOGGS SCHOOL runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE JAMES AND GRACE LEE BOGGS SCHOOL
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE JAMES AND GRACE LEE BOGGS SCHOOL?
- THE JAMES AND GRACE LEE BOGGS SCHOOL (Michigan) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $320,974 to it, the largest being BOGGS EDUCATIONAL CENTER PROJECT TEAM ($166,020). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE JAMES AND GRACE LEE BOGGS SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $320,974 in grants to THE JAMES AND GRACE LEE BOGGS SCHOOL, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE JAMES AND GRACE LEE BOGGS SCHOOL?
- BOGGS EDUCATIONAL CENTER PROJECT TEAM is the largest funder on record, with $166,020 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE JAMES AND GRACE LEE BOGGS SCHOOL 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 9 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