Michigan · Nonprofit
XCEPTIONAL HEROES
XCEPTIONAL HEROES (Michigan) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,081 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER FLINT ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
XCEPTIONAL HEROES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,754 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,754 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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.
- Canton Community Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio match
- United Way of Genesee Countyshared funderslocal
- The Add Impact Network Incportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $2k → $20k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 XCEPTIONAL HEROES’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
XCEPTIONAL HEROES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
68% 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 XCEPTIONAL HEROES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 75% — 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
68% of XCEPTIONAL HEROES'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 $7k that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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 7 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Canton Community Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio matchMI · backs 16 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Genesee Countyshared funderslocalMI · backs 36 organizations that share your funders · funds 50 organizations near you
- The Add Impact Network Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Next for Autism Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Vivint Giveback Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Developmental Pathways Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Teamsters Local 25 Autism Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Doug Flutie Jr Foundation for Autism Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Glenn Shaw Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Artichoke Garlic Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ruth Mott Foundationshared funderslocalMI · backs 64 organizations that share your funders · funds 66 organizations near you
- Foundation for Flintshared funderslocalMI · backs 35 organizations that share your funders · funds 45 organizations near you
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 XCEPTIONAL HEROES
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for XCEPTIONAL HEROES: 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 XCEPTIONAL HEROES?
- XCEPTIONAL HEROES (Michigan) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,081 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER FLINT ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does XCEPTIONAL HEROES have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $22,081 in grants to XCEPTIONAL HEROES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of XCEPTIONAL HEROES?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER FLINT is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like XCEPTIONAL HEROES 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 7funders 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