· Public charity
Arts Council of Greater Lansing
Promotion of the public interest in the arts and support of other art organizations.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 15 grants below total $202,001 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $347,409 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $145,408 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $152k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LANSING ART GALLERY & EDUCATION CENTER | $29,400 |
| CAPITAL CITY FILM FESTIVAL - V | $28,750 |
| GRIT GLAM & GUTS | $17,000 |
| LANSING SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC | $16,820 |
| LANSING 501 | $16,061 |
| REACH STUDIO ART CENTER | $14,705 |
| WHARTON CENTER | $14,500 |
| LEPFA | $14,500 |
| MICA | $9,668 |
| AGAINST ALL ODDS | $8,750 |
| WILLIAMSTON THEATRE PROJECT | $7,716 |
| OURSPACE FOUNDATION | $6,760 |
| CAPITOL HARP ENSEMBLE | $6,250 |
| ALL-OF-US EXPRESS CHILDREN'S THEATRE | $6,058 |
| MICHIGAN OPERA OUTREACH | $5,063 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- LSLANSING SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2024 · $129k · revenue +112%
- CCCAPITAL CITY FILM FESTIVAL6× · 2019–2024 · $105k · revenue +99% · 53% of their budget
- TCTHE CAPITOL COLLECTIVE5× · 2020–2024 · $105k · revenue +79% · 39% of their budget
Funded once
- ELEAST LANSING ART FESTIVALone grant, 2022 · $20k
- MAMICHIGAN ARTS AND CULTURE COUNCILone grant, 2023 · $14k
- HCHOLT COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCILone grant, 2022 · $9k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Dpc uses awe-inspiring puppetry as a vehicle for a better tomorrow. dpc collaborates with the local commmunity to create inclusive spaces that bring together detroit and hamtramck residents with artists from around the country. the works…
Motion picture exhibition
Organization is formed to promote the performing and visual arts in charlevoix, michigan.`
Arts presenter serving the greater Reedsburg area.
Harvest Theatre Co is a professional theatre and training program for Flint youth ages 13-19 years old. We use the theatrical arts to instill confidence, self worth, and discipline in the most vulnerable population of our city. In 2022 we…
The Alchemy Theatre's mission is to present stories with fierce resonant truth, in an intimate and inclusive environment, with professionalism, and in compelling collaboration with quality theatre artists at large.
Non Profit Art Organization
As a theater arts organization, we bring unique, original works to the local community. We are nomads and produce our works in non-traditional locations. We employ a pay-what-you-decide donation model that ensures no audience member is…
Community theater productions and other community events to foster group of the arts in our community
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lansing Art Gallery & Education Center and the most unlike its peers is Grit Glam and Guts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund close more than the field — 10% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 40 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds LANSING SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LANSING ART GALLERY & EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL CITY FILM FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds THE CAPITOL COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
- Who funds IMPRESSION 5 SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds OLD TOWN COMMERCIAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMSTON THEATRE ↗
- Who funds Reach Studio Art Center ↗
- Who funds All-Of-Us Express Children's Theatre ↗
- Who funds CENTER PARK PRODUCTIONS ↗
- Who funds GRIT GLAM AND GUTS ↗
- Who funds HAPPENDANCE INC ↗
- Who funds POTTER PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds AGAINST ALL ODDS ↗
- Who funds PEPPERMINT CREEK THEATRE CO ↗
- Who funds THE LANSING WOMENS CHORUS ↗
- Who funds CRACKED POT STUDIO TOUR ↗
- Who funds CLINTON COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Community Circle Players Inc ↗
- Who funds FOCUS ON LOVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALL OF THE ABOVE HIP HOP ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE ARMY OF SURVIVORS ↗
- Who funds CAPITOL HARP ENSEMBLE ↗
- Who funds R E OLDS TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Capital Region Community Foundation · Lansing Economic Area Partnership · Greater Lansing Destination Development Foundation · Desk Drawer Fund · Re Olds Foundation · McLaren Greater Lansing · Jackson Charitable Foundation Inc · Credit Unions Chartered in the State of 222 Lake Trust Credit Union · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Arts Council of Greater Lansing funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.