How much does Arts Council of Greater Lansing give?

Arts Council of Greater Lansing reported 21 itemized grants totaling $203,260, out of $329,532 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Arts Council of Greater Lansing fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (92%), Community Improvement (5%), Youth Development (1%).

Who are Arts Council of Greater Lansing's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Michigan State University ($172k), Lansing Symphony Association ($147k), Lansing Art Gallery & Education Center ($129k).

Does Arts Council of Greater Lansing fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Where is Arts Council of Greater Lansing based?

Arts Council of Greater Lansing is based in MI.

Arts Council of Greater Lansing

Arts Council of Greater Lansing at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

Arts Council of Greater Lansing

Promotion of the public interest in the arts and support of other art organizations.

$330k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$20k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.2MCommunity Improvement$64kYouth Development$17kAnimals$9kHuman Services$9kCrime & Legal$6k

02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 21 grants below total $203,260, the rows itemized in this filing. The $329,532 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $126,272 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k13 grants · $90k
$10k–50k8 grants · $113k

$7,500

Median grant

States reached

$1.9M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CAPITAL CITY FILM FESTIVAL - V	$20,000
REACH STUDIO ART CENTER	$18,000
LANSING SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC	$18,000
GRIT GLAM & GUTS	$17,440
POTTER PARK ZOOLIGICAL SOCIETY	$10,000
IMPRESSION 5 SCIENCE CENTER	$10,000
RE OLDS MUSEUM	$10,000
OURSPACE FOUNDATION	$10,000
MICA	$8,427
LANSING 501	$8,000
REO TOWN COMMERCIAL ASSOCIATION	$7,500
BROAD ART MUSEUM	$7,500
LEPFA	$7,500
WILLIAMSTON THEATRE PROJECT	$7,475
ALL OF THE ABOVE HIP HOP ACADEMY	$7,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.4M · 25 repeat orgs$127k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.4M

$121k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%

Still filing today

60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationRecreation & SportsAnimalsOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

LS
LANSING SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION
9× · 2017–2025 · $147k · revenue +112%
CC
CAPITAL CITY FILM FESTIVAL
7× · 2019–2025 · $125k · revenue +10% · 53% of their budget
TC
THE CAPITOL COLLECTIVE
6× · 2020–2025 · $113k · revenue +16% · 39% of their budget

Funded once

EL
EAST LANSING ART FESTIVAL
one grant, 2022 · $20k
MA
MICHIGAN ARTS AND CULTURE COUNCIL
one grant, 2023 · $14k
HC
HOLT COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL
one grant, 2022 · $9k

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Cinema Detroit

Motion picture exhibition

Arts & Culture

Detroit Puppet Company

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…

Arts & Culture

Live From Charlevoix Inc

Organization is formed to promote the performing and visual arts in charlevoix, michigan.`

Arts & Culture

Clinton Arts Center

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Harvest Theatre Company

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…

Arts & Culture

State of the Arts Productions

Arts & Culture

Flint Public Art Project

Non Profit Art Organization

Community Improvement

Festival of the Arts in Grand Rapid

The festival of the arts in grand rapids purpose is to bring various types of arts to the city of grand rapids, mi.

Arts & Culture

Cal Center Presents

Arts presenter serving the greater Reedsburg area.

Arts & Culture

Acorn to Oaks Studios

Arts & Culture

Artworks Community Arts Education C

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The Alchemy Theater

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.

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lansing Art Gallery & Education Center; 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.

04the grantee network

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 41 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

24/26

Grantees still filing

15/26

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$646,794Other$589,523Recreation & Sports$112,636Community Improvement$64,906Education$62,095Youth Development$34,440Human Services$22,250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Capital Region Community FoundationMI36.4× affinity15 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Arts Council of Greater Lansing funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arts Council of Greater Lansing. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home