Michigan · Nonprofit
Ypsilanti Community Schools Foundation
Ypsilanti Community Schools Foundation (Michigan) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $161,563 to it, the largest being KLA FOUNDATION ($65,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $23k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $162k
- Net assets
- $73k
What Ypsilanti Community Schools Foundation does
Mission
The Ypsilanti Community Schools Foundation YCSF was established to advance the promise of success for all students through the generation and distribution of resources to enrich teaching inspire learning promote excellence in education and reward dedication to these tenets through grants and scholarships. The foundations mission is to recognize students who work to their highest potential and faculty for exemplary innovative teaching. It also engages the schools administrators and staff as partners in this mission and collaborates with community partners to achieve this goal.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The Ypsilanti Community Schools Foundation YCSF provides support for district initiatives that enhance educational opportunities and experiences for students within the Ypsilanti community. This includes funding programs projects and resources that directly impact the academic success and overall well-being of students attending Ypsilanti Community Schools. Additionally the foundation collaborates with teachers administrators and community partners to identify areas of need and develop strategic initiatives that align with the districts goals and priorities.
$0 spentof which $5,000 as grants
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $29k → $20k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 Ypsilanti Community Schools 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
Ypsilanti Community Schools Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
37% 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 Ypsilanti Community Schools Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 86% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
50% of Ypsilanti Community Schools Foundation's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
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
Ypsilanti Community Schools Foundation draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
Ypsilanti Community Schools Foundation receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $162k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like Ypsilanti Community Schools Foundation
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In Michigan
Nationally
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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Ypsilanti Community Schools Foundation?
- Ypsilanti Community Schools Foundation (Michigan) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $161,563 to it, the largest being KLA FOUNDATION ($65,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Ypsilanti Community Schools Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $161,563 in grants to Ypsilanti Community Schools Foundation, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Ypsilanti Community Schools Foundation?
- KLA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $65,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Ypsilanti Community Schools 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.
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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 2024–2024), and the filings of 8 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