GrantmakersMichigan

Michigan Nonprofit Association

Lansing, MI · EIN 38-2959692. Reported 82 grants totalling $2,016,395 to 55 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

55organizations funded
$8,000median reported grant
$2,016,395granted, 2020-2023
29%of grantees funded again the next year
21%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 55 distinct organizations, with 21% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 29% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $8,000. Half of what it reported fell between $8,000 and $13,250; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $251,250. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
44 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
29 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
1 grant
$50,000 - $100,000
2 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
5 grants
$250,000 Or More
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Non-Profit Enterprise at Work IncAnn Arbor, MI$419,970222022
Michigan Community ResourcesDetroit, MI$326,300222021
Data Driven DetroitDetroit, MI$310,250222021
Earlyworks LLCDetroit, MI$128,900112020
Wayne State Univ Research & Techno- Logy Park in the City of DetroitDetroit, MI$75,000112020
Michigan 211 IncLansing, MI$40,000112020
Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote - MichiganDetroit, MI$37,250422021
National Association for the Advancement of Colored PeopleBaltimore, MD$28,000222021
AbisaDetroit, MI$21,250222021
AccessDearborn, MI$21,250222021
Caribbean Community Service CenterGarden City, MI$21,250222021
Communities First IncFlint, MI$21,250222021
Detroit Alumnae Chapter Delta Sigma ThetaDetroit, MI$21,250222021
Detroit Change InitiativeDetroit, MI$21,250222021
Detroit Hispanic Development CorporationDetroit, MI$21,250222021
Disability Network Eastern MichiganTroy, MI$21,250222021
Global DetroitDetroit, MI$21,250222021
Hispanic Center of Western Michigan IncGrand Rapids, MI$21,250222021
International Institute of Metropolitan Detroit IncDetroit, MI$21,250222021
Lgbt DetroitDetroit, MI$21,250222021
Michigan Organizing ProjectOshtemo, MI$21,250222021
Our Own Wall StreetDetroit, MI$21,250222021
Proactive Project IncGrand Rapids, MI$21,250222021
Timbuktu Community ServicesDetroit, MI$21,250222021
Urban Core CollectiveGrand Rapids, MI$21,250322021
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganDetroit, MI$20,000112020
Mobilizing CommunitiesCherverly, MA$20,000112020
Nonprofit NetworkJackson, MI$18,000222021
Tides FoundationSan Francisco, CA$14,625222021
Battle Creek Community FoundationBattle Creek, MI$10,000112020
Capital Area United Way IncLansing, MI$10,000112020
Childrens Hospital of Michigan FoundationDetroit, MI$10,000112023
Community Foundation of Greater FlintFlint, MI$10,000112020
Fremont Area Community FoundationFremont, MI$10,000112020
Heart of West Michigan United WayGrand Rapids, MI$10,000112020
Michigan Community ActionOkemos, MI$10,000112020
Muskegon County Community FoundationMuskegon, MI$10,000112020
A Glimpse of AfricaGrand Rapids, MI$8,000112021
American Arab Heritage CouncilFlint, MI$8,000112021
American Citizens for Justice IncWestland, MI$8,000112021
Association of Chinese Americans IncMadison Hts, MI$8,000112021
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority IncSouthfield, MI$8,000112021
Disability Network Wayne County- DetroitDetroit, MI$8,000112021
Emgage Foundation IncLakeland, FL$8,000112021
Fitzgerald Community CouncilDetroit, MI$8,000112021
Flint Innovative SolutionsFlint, MI$8,000112021
Islamic Center of Detroit IncDetroit, MI$8,000112021
Littlefield Community Association IncDetroit, MI$8,000112021
Miigwech IncAlanson, MI$8,000112021
North Flint Neighborhood Action Council IncFlint, MI$8,000112021
Southwestern Michigan Urban League IncBattle Creek, MI$8,000112021
West Grand Boulevard CollaborativeDetroit, MI$8,000112021
Progress Michigan EducationLansing, MI$6,625112020
Congress of CommunitiesDetroit, MI$5,225112020
Foodbank Council of Michigan IncLansing, MI$5,000112020

24 of 55 (44%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 40 of 55 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Community Improvement
13 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
9 orgs
Human Services
8 orgs
Public & Societal Benefit
3 orgs
Civil Rights
2 orgs
Crime & Legal
1 org
Housing & Shelter
1 org
Health Care
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202040$1,036,145$13,250
202140$780,250$8,000
20221$190,000$190,000
20231$10,000$10,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

96% of its giving went to organizations in Michigan. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Michigan
$1.9M
Maryland
$28K
Massachusetts
$20K
California
$15K
Florida
$8K

Down to the city

Detroit, MI
$1.1M
Ann Arbor, MI
$420K
Grand Rapids, MI
$82K
Lansing, MI
$62K
Flint, MI
$55K
Baltimore, MD
$28K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Community Foundation for Southeast18 shared recipientsWk Kellogg Foundation16 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund16 shared recipientsMichigan Voices14 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc14 shared recipientsUnited Way for Southeastern Michigan13 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $8,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Michigan.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Michigan Nonprofit Association's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 330 Marshall Street 200, Lansing, MI, 48912.

EIN 38-2959692 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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