Michigan · Nonprofit
The Variis Institute
The Variis Institute (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,000 to it, the largest being WEISER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($35,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $10k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $60k
- Net assets
- $0
What The Variis Institute does
Mission
The Variis Institute(501c(3)) works to empower todays youth with the skills of tomorrow by providing integrated, project-based STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) and exploratory learning experiences in an engaging environment.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Over the course of the past year and our final year, our nonprofit organization has committed to enhancing the quality of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education for students. We take pride in listing our significant achievements in line with this objective for this tax year:STEM Curriculum: We provided lesson plans and projects for STEM classrooms.Student Events: We provided technical support assistance, repair parts, and teacher support training for drone education and a student centered drone competition in Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Florida.
$10,000 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $10,000.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $76k to $21k (−72%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
Frank Norton
Chief Executive Officer
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $20k → $35k.
From the IRS filings of The Variis Institute’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 Variis Institute leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 Variis Institute.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 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.
Where its funders are
100% of The Variis Institute's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 Variis Institute
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 Variis Institute: 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 Variis Institute?
- The Variis Institute (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,000 to it, the largest being WEISER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($35,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Variis Institute have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $60,000 in grants to The Variis Institute.
- Who is the largest funder of The Variis Institute?
- WEISER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Variis Institute 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 3 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