Michigan · Nonprofit
VOLUNTEER CENTER OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN INC
VOLUNTEER CENTER OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN INC (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,001 to it, the largest being MICHIGAN GATEWAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($12,800). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- St Josephbenton Harbor Rotary Foundation Inclocal
- Outcalt Foundationportfolio match
- Duroe Family Foundationportfolio match
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.
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 35% · 2018 50%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2018: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $14k → $16k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 VOLUNTEER CENTER OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN INC’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
VOLUNTEER CENTER OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
92% 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 VOLUNTEER CENTER OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 46% — 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.
Where its funders are
67% of VOLUNTEER CENTER OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN INC'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 $10k that is directly attributable, 75% of it comes from Michigan funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 4 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- St Josephbenton Harbor Rotary Foundation InclocalMI · funds 28 organizations near you
- Outcalt Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Duroe Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Mbk Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Marvin L and Norma J Hathaway Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Swift Memorial Health Care Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Deitzler Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mantz Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Scoular Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Donald D Hammill Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Martin V and Martha K Smith Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Union Pacific Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like VOLUNTEER CENTER OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
94% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VOLUNTEER CENTER OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds VOLUNTEER CENTER OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN INC?
- VOLUNTEER CENTER OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN INC (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,001 to it, the largest being MICHIGAN GATEWAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($12,800). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does VOLUNTEER CENTER OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $30,001 in grants to VOLUNTEER CENTER OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VOLUNTEER CENTER OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN INC?
- MICHIGAN GATEWAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $12,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VOLUNTEER CENTER OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2018 (financials across 2017–2018), and the filings of 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing