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WAUB AJIJAAK PRESS & FOUNDATION

WAUB AJIJAAK PRESS & FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,103,000 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($400,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$191k
Funders on record
20
Grants received
$1.1M
Net assets
$216k
5/20 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 67%
01What it does

What Waub Ajijaak Press & Foundation does

Mission

Soaring to new heights through education, advocacy, and empowerment for our native american communities in the great lakes and beyond.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. For the grants and philanthropy we supported 24 organizations spanning alabama, florida, illinois, maine, michigan, north carolina, ohio, ontario, rhode island, virginia, wisconsin, and vermont. For our 2025 year a grand total of $125,000 goes to support these amazing native american and indigenous organizations. The average grant award is $9,615.

    $125,000 spentof which $125,000 as grants
    45% of program spending
  2. For the waub ajijaak leadership scholarship we provided 7 awards to native american students across the state of michigan totaling $14,000.

    $14,000 spentof which $14,000 as grants
    5% of program spending
  3. For waub ajijaak press we transitioned our children's books from paperback to hardcover. Also, we donated 250 books to 10 recipients.

    $138,334 spent
    50% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $277,334.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($108k) Expenses 100 ($78k) Net assets 100 ($89k)2020 Revenue 158 ($171k) Expenses 127 ($99k) Net assets 181 ($161k)2021 Revenue 239 ($258k) Expenses 240 ($187k) Net assets 260 ($231k)2022 Revenue 514 ($553k) Expenses 450 ($351k) Net assets 487 ($434k)2023 Revenue 384 ($413k) Expenses 540 ($421k) Net assets 478 ($426k)2024 Revenue 299 ($321k) Expenses 449 ($350k) Net assets 446 ($397k)2025 Revenue 177 ($191k) Expenses 478 ($372k) Net assets 243 ($216k)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (177)Expenses (478)Net assets (243)

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 $245k to $454k (+86%).

$89k
$162k
$245k
$454k
$456k
$401k
$216k
2019202020212022202320242025
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$30k
’19
$72k
’20
$71k
’21
$202k
’22
−$8k
’23
−$28k
’24
−$181k
’25
6.4
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.

Chief executive

Cecelia Lapointe

Executive director & presi

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20212022202320242025
Listed53544
Joined·+0+4+1+1
No longer listed·2221
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $13k → $277k.

6 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 WAUB AJIJAAK PRESS & FOUNDATION’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

WAUB AJIJAAK PRESS & FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% 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

39% 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 WAUB AJIJAAK PRESS & FOUNDATION.

36%
largest funder
70%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 63% · 2022 30% · 2023 36% — 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

17% of WAUB AJIJAAK PRESS & FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 25% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

WAUB AJIJAAK PRESS & FOUNDATION draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 10 states in all.

WA
MN
WI
MI
NY
MA
PA
CA
MD
NC

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

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

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $192k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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

Organizations like WAUB AJIJAAK PRESS & FOUNDATION

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 13%Fundraising 12%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

MI

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Questions and answers

Who funds WAUB AJIJAAK PRESS & FOUNDATION?
WAUB AJIJAAK PRESS & FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,103,000 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($400,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WAUB AJIJAAK PRESS & FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,103,000 in grants to WAUB AJIJAAK PRESS & FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WAUB AJIJAAK PRESS & FOUNDATION?
WK Kellogg Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WAUB AJIJAAK PRESS & FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 20 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