Skip to content

Michigan · Public charity

Creative Washtenaw

To advocate for and provide support services to artists creative workers organizations businesses educational and government entities to ensure that Washtenaw County Michigan - the greater Ann Arbor area - remains a great place for all to create live work learn play and visit.

$51k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Itemized grants FY2024
22
Organizations funded FY2023
Read the full brief
Itemized, FY2024
$20k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$74k
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$206kCommunity Improvement$10kYouth Development$9k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Great Lakes Performing Artist Associates$10,00018%
Erika Cross Studio LLC$10,0001n/a
Ann Arbor Civic Theatre Inc$10,000111%
Media Ensemble$10,0001n/a
Limelight LLC$10,0001n/a
African American Cultural & Historical Museum$10,00017%
Oz s Music Environment$10,0001n/a
Eventjazz LLC$10,0001n/a
Boychoir of Ann Arbor$10,000127%
Measure for Measure - a Mens Choral Society$10,000122%
Show all 24 grantees
All grantees of Creative Washtenaw by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Great Lakes Performing Artist Associates$10,00018%
Erika Cross Studio LLC$10,0001n/a
Ann Arbor Civic Theatre Inc$10,000111%
Media Ensemble$10,0001n/a
Limelight LLC$10,0001n/a
African American Cultural & Historical Museum$10,00017%
Oz s Music Environment$10,0001n/a
Eventjazz LLC$10,0001n/a
Boychoir of Ann Arbor$10,000127%
Measure for Measure - a Mens Choral Society$10,000122%
Do Good Work$10,0001n/a
Coppertree Collective$10,000111%
PJR Design LLC$10,0001n/a
W Patterson Our Own Thing Choral$10,0001n/a
Furnace Design Studio LLC DBA Chris Nordin Studios$10,0001n/a
Dave Sharp Enterprises LLC$10,0001n/a
Terry Abrams Photography$10,0001n/a
WSG Gallery$10,0001n/a
MacTechnics$10,0001n/a
Sweet Adelines International$8,5251n/a
All Hands Active$8,2501n/a
Ann Arbor Civic Band$6,3751n/a
Hannah Kirkpatrick Studios$6,0001n/a
Ballet Chelsea$5,40011%

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.

Ann Arbor Area Community FoundationMI13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

Compare Creative Washtenaw with peer funders

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Creative Washtenaw?

Find your warmest path to Creative Washtenaw through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Creative Washtenaw

How much does Creative Washtenaw give?
Creative Washtenaw reported 2 itemized grants totaling $20,000, out of $50,925 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Creative Washtenaw fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (92%), Community Improvement (4%), Youth Development (4%).
Who are Creative Washtenaw's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2024: Great Lakes Performing Artist Associates ($10k), Erika Cross Studio LLC ($10k), Ann Arbor Civic Theatre Inc ($10k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Creative Washtenaw?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Creative Washtenaw based?
Creative Washtenaw is based in MI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Creative Washtenaw’s filings →

More from the funding graph