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The Leelanau School

The Leelanau School (Michigan) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $891,490 to it, the largest being BOBBIE AND STANTON COOK FAMILY FOUNDATION ($275,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$3.2M
Funders on record
17
Grants received
$891k
Net assets
$1.6M
12/17 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What The Leelanau School does

Mission

The Leelanau School ignites a passion for learning in a boarding school where students thrive by engaging academically and by celebrating everyones unique learning styles in a culture of acceptance leading to successful and meaningful lives in college and beyond.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. School and summer enrichment programs college preparatory for high school and continuing education. Graduation rate of 100% with 100% acceptance rate into higher education programs. Serving approximately 40 students.

    $2,635,473 spent$2,344,400 earned by the program
    97% of program spending

  2. Enrichment fees are for use of the schools facilities for sports camps and conferences.

    $80,728 spent$129,037 earned by the program
    3% of program spending

  3. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,716,201.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.3M) Expenses 100 ($3.3M) Net assets 100 ($1.6M)2018 Revenue 89 ($2.9M) Expenses 94 ($3.1M) Net assets 90 ($1.4M)2019 Revenue 82 ($2.7M) Expenses 89 ($2.9M) Net assets 78 ($1.2M)2020 Revenue 92 ($3.0M) Expenses 91 ($3.0M) Net assets 81 ($1.3M)2021 Revenue 91 ($3.0M) Expenses 92 ($3.0M) Net assets 90 ($1.4M)2022 Revenue 130 ($4.2M) Expenses 94 ($3.1M) Net assets 150 ($2.3M)2023 Revenue 107 ($3.5M) Expenses 111 ($3.6M) Net assets 146 ($2.3M)2024 Revenue 89 ($2.9M) Expenses 107 ($3.5M) Net assets 114 ($1.8M)2025 Revenue 99 ($3.2M) Expenses 107 ($3.5M) Net assets 103 ($1.6M)
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Revenue (99)Expenses (107)Net assets (103)Peer revenue range

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 $3.7M to $4.6M (+23%).

$3.7M
$3.2M
$3.0M
$3.3M
$3.7M
$4.6M
$4.2M
$3.7M
$3.4M
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 12% · 2022 20% · 2023 5% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

21% of The Leelanau School’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$31k
’17
−$171k
’18
−$281k
’19
$7k
’20
−$50k
’21
$1.1M
’22
−$148k
’23
−$623k
’24
−$309k
’25
2.1
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.

Board chair

Dr Mary Beth Hardwicke

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed151318141414151414
Joined·+1+6+2+3+1+3+0+0
No longer listed·31631210
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $20k → $157k.

Funder
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'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
2
3
4
6
7
6
8
8
6

7 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 Leelanau School’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 16 of 17 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 Leelanau School leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

56% 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 Leelanau School.

31%
largest funder
70%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 38% · 2019 45% · 2020 32% · 2021 56% · 2022 64% · 2023 48% — 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

50% of The Leelanau School's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

56% of The Leelanau School'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 $395k that is directly attributable, 75% of it comes from funders outside Michigan, across 5 states.

IL
MI
NY
KY
VA

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

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’20
’21
’22
’23
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $497k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

The Leelanau School receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $891k to it.

Operating margin−10% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−0% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like The Leelanau 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

Greenhills School78%Calhoun Christian School77%Henry Ford Learning Institute77%Lakeshore Excellence Foundation77%Tower Education Association77%Roeper City and Country School Inc77%Leelanau Conservancy76%The Grosse Pointe Academy76%

Nationally

Lagrange Academy Inc82%Legion Collegiate Academy81%University Lake School Inc81%Fern Leaf Community Charter School81%Lausanne Collegiate School80%Soleil Academy Inc80%Yleana Leadership Foundation Inc80%Lighthouse Community Public Schools80%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 23%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
91%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds The Leelanau School?
The Leelanau School (Michigan) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $891,490 to it, the largest being BOBBIE AND STANTON COOK FAMILY FOUNDATION ($275,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does The Leelanau School have?
IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $891,490 in grants to The Leelanau School, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The Leelanau School?
BOBBIE AND STANTON COOK FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $275,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Leelanau 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 17 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