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WINNING FUTURES

WINNING FUTURES (Michigan) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,126,104 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ($576,095). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.6M
Funders on record
52
Grants received
$3.1M
Net assets
$5.9M
35/52 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 32%
01What it does

What Winning Futures does

Mission

We empower high school and college students to achieve the life they dream of through our seven-year workforce prep and mentoring program.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Winning Futures implemented the Winning Futures workforce prep program for students in 10th - 12th grade plus for alumni now in college. We facilitated both virtual and in-person programming at six high schools in metro detroit with bi-weekly or monthly mentoring sessions along with workshops. Our college students participated in monthly virtual meetings with their mentors while at college. Paid college scholarships for students which were awarded in the current and prior years.

    $1,669,216 spentof which $76,481 as grants
    100% of program spending
  2. Programming services 2025-2026 school year

    $19,000 earned by the program

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,669,216.

02The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.4M) Expenses 100 ($1.2M) Net assets 100 ($1.9M)2018 Revenue 94 ($1.3M) Expenses 96 ($1.1M) Net assets 106 ($2.0M)2019 Revenue 100 ($1.4M) Expenses 98 ($1.1M) Net assets 143 ($2.7M)2020 Revenue 114 ($1.6M) Expenses 89 ($1.0M) Net assets 172 ($3.2M)2021 Revenue 102 ($1.4M) Expenses 94 ($1.1M) Net assets 228 ($4.2M)2022 Revenue 119 ($1.7M) Expenses 130 ($1.5M) Net assets 227 ($4.2M)2023 Revenue 130 ($1.8M) Expenses 150 ($1.7M) Net assets 250 ($4.7M)2024 Revenue 150 ($2.1M) Expenses 158 ($1.8M) Net assets 278 ($5.2M)2025 Revenue 186 ($2.6M) Expenses 191 ($2.2M) Net assets 319 ($5.9M)
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Revenue (186)Expenses (191)Net assets (319)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 2020 to 2021, from $3.3M to $4.3M (+32%).

$1.9M
$2.0M
$2.7M
$3.3M
$4.3M
$4.3M
$4.8M
$5.7M
$6.4M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 7% · 2021 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

84% of WINNING FUTURES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$260k
’17
$229k
’18
$280k
’19
$590k
’20
$363k
’21
$189k
’22
$96k
’23
$293k
’24
$425k
’25
5.3
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.

Board chair

Matthus Joshua

Chair goveni

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed192020202021202222
Joined·+3+3+3+3+5+2+2+0
No longer listed·23334300
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $262k → $329k.

12 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 WINNING FUTURES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 funders by total. 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

WINNING FUTURES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left

46% 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 WINNING FUTURES.

18%
largest funder
36%
top three
~14
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 56% · 2019 33% · 2020 23% · 2021 26% · 2022 21% · 2023 20% — 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

48% of WINNING FUTURES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

87% of WINNING FUTURES's grant income comes from Michigan funders.

WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
NC
LA
GA
TX
FL

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

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’23
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $368k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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

WINNING FUTURES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin16% · top quartile
Months of reserve5.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like WINNING FUTURES

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

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 5%Fundraising 19%

Governance

7
board members
86%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

91%

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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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WINNING FUTURES: 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 WINNING FUTURES?
WINNING FUTURES (Michigan) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,126,104 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ($576,095). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WINNING FUTURES have?
IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $3,126,104 in grants to WINNING FUTURES, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WINNING FUTURES?
UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN is the largest funder on record, with $576,095 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WINNING FUTURES 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 52 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