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WATERVLIET PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE

WATERVLIET PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $167,085 to it, the largest being BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($160,500). 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 FY2024
$83k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$167k
Net assets
$97k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 39%
01What it does

What Watervliet Public Schools Foundation for Excellence does

Mission

To support programs activities and projects for Watervliet Public Schools.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $4,200 spent
    28% of program spending
  2. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $9,600 spent
    65% of program spending
  3. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $1,000 spent
    7% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $14,800.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($91k) Expenses 100 ($65k) Net assets 100 ($71k)2024 Revenue 92 ($83k) Expenses 89 ($58k) Net assets 136 ($97k)
20232024
Revenue (92)Expenses (89)Net assets (136)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $71k to $97k (+36%).

$71k
$97k
20232024
Total assets

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.

2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of WATERVLIET PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,549 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$26k
’23
$25k
’24

Leadership and staff

Board chair

William Spaulding

School Board President

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $25k → $36k.

Funder
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
2
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 WATERVLIET PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE’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

WATERVLIET PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% 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 WATERVLIET PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE.

96%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 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 WATERVLIET PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE'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. $167k 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

WATERVLIET PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,183 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin31% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−8% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,183 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MI

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Questions and answers

Who funds WATERVLIET PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE?
WATERVLIET PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $167,085 to it, the largest being BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($160,500). 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 WATERVLIET PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $167,085 in grants to WATERVLIET PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WATERVLIET PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE?
BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $160,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WATERVLIET PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE 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 2023–2024), 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