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WALLED LAKE CENTRAL MUSIC BOOSTERS

WALLED LAKE CENTRAL MUSIC BOOSTERS (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,531 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($13,506). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2026
$391k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$15k
Net assets
$217k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Walled Lake Central Music Boosters does

Mission

Provides students with music, instruments, instruction and uniforms for competition

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Walled lake marching band: provides educational experience for the members that is focused on excellance and personal contribution to a team effort. Rehersals and performances are the vehicle for instilling these values.

    $270,436 spent$276,228 earned by the program
    69% of program spending
  2. Walled lake performance ensemble: provides educational experience through a competitive percussion and guard ensemble that performs throughout the winter months. The ensemble strives to exhibit professionalism while representing the group by showing respect, empathy and humbleness

    $121,508 spent$112,968 earned by the program
    31% of program spending
  3. All other accomplishments vocal music, orchestra and music booster activities combined.

    $104 spent$1,884 earned by the program
    0% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $392,048.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($230k) Expenses 100 ($205k) Net assets 100 ($136k)2022 Revenue 146 ($336k) Expenses 170 ($348k) Net assets 91 ($123k)2023 Revenue 154 ($354k) Expenses 158 ($324k) Net assets 113 ($154k)2024 Revenue 205 ($472k) Expenses 203 ($416k) Net assets 154 ($209k)2025 Revenue 201 ($463k) Expenses 219 ($448k) Net assets 165 ($224k)2026 Revenue 170 ($391k) Expenses 194 ($398k) Net assets 160 ($217k)
202120222023202420252026
Revenue (170)Expenses (194)Net assets (160)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 2025 to 2026, from $224k to $328k (+46%).

$138k
$126k
$154k
$209k
$224k
$328k
202120222023202420252026
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

67% of WALLED LAKE CENTRAL MUSIC BOOSTERS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$25k
’21
−$12k
’22
$30k
’23
$55k
’24
$15k
’25
−$6k
’26
9.9
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.

202120222023202420252026
Listed444445
Joined·+2+1+2+0+2
No longer listed·21201
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $14k → $249.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
2
1
1
1

2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 WALLED LAKE CENTRAL MUSIC BOOSTERS’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

WALLED LAKE CENTRAL MUSIC BOOSTERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% 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 WALLED LAKE CENTRAL MUSIC BOOSTERS.

93%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 98% · 2021 100% · 2022 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 WALLED LAKE CENTRAL MUSIC BOOSTERS'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

WALLED LAKE CENTRAL MUSIC BOOSTERS is better cushioned than half of the 625 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Months of reserve9.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 625 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026

Organizations like WALLED LAKE CENTRAL MUSIC BOOSTERS

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 1%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds WALLED LAKE CENTRAL MUSIC BOOSTERS?
WALLED LAKE CENTRAL MUSIC BOOSTERS (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,531 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($13,506). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does WALLED LAKE CENTRAL MUSIC BOOSTERS have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $14,531 in grants to WALLED LAKE CENTRAL MUSIC BOOSTERS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WALLED LAKE CENTRAL MUSIC BOOSTERS?
PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $13,506 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WALLED LAKE CENTRAL MUSIC BOOSTERS 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 FY2026 (financials across 2021–2026), and the filings of 2 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