How much does Culturesource give?

Culturesource reported 76 itemized grants totaling $1,765,000, out of $2,925,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 55 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.

What does Culturesource fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (83%), Education (8%), Animals (4%).

Who are Culturesource's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Detroit Public Media ($166k), Detroit Zoological Society ($145k), The Detroit Institute of Arts ($145k).

Does Culturesource fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Culturesource?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, The Kresge Foundation, The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation.

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Michigan · Public charity

Culturesource

CULTURESOURCE advances creative and cultural expression in southeast michigan.

$2.9M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 76
Itemized grants FY2024: 32
Organizations funded FY2023: 16%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $1.8M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $15,500
Largest grant, FY2024: $83,000
Organizations funded a year: 12 to 55; FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 1
Total assets, FY2024: $5.8M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 16% of the organizations Culturesource funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationAnimalsHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	75	$1.7M	28%
FY2023	32	$548k	16%
FY2022	55	$1.0M	89%
FY2018	12	$61k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$2.8MEducation$275kAnimals$145kHuman Services$56kYouth Development$52kHealth$51kCommunity Improvement$8kCivil Rights$5k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Detroit Public Media	$166,000	3	0%
Detroit Zoological Society	$145,000	3	0%
The Detroit Institute of Arts	$145,000	3	0%
College for Creative Studies	$136,000	3	n/a
Detroit Symphony Orchestra Inc	$131,000	3	0%
Wayne State University	$125,000	3	n/a
Insideout Literary Arts Project	$78,500	4	1%
The Pewabic Society Inc	$78,000	4	1%
Sphinx Organization Inc	$76,500	2	1%
Living Arts	$75,000	2	5%

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All grantees of Culturesource by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Detroit Public Media	$166,000	3	0%
Detroit Zoological Society	$145,000	3	0%
The Detroit Institute of Arts	$145,000	3	0%
College for Creative Studies	$136,000	3	n/a
Detroit Symphony Orchestra Inc	$131,000	3	0%
Wayne State University	$125,000	3	n/a
Insideout Literary Arts Project	$78,500	4	1%
The Pewabic Society Inc	$78,000	4	1%
Sphinx Organization Inc	$76,500	2	1%
Living Arts	$75,000	2	5%
Holocaust Memorial Center Inc	$73,000	2	1%
Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts	$73,000	3	0%
Macomb Community College	$73,000	3	n/a
Detroit Historical Society	$73,000	3	1%
Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit	$73,000	3	2%
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit	$73,000	3	2%
Detroit Opera	$72,000	3	0%
Museum of African American History	$72,000	3	0%
Cranbrook Educational Community	$71,500	2	0%
The Edison Institute Inc	$71,500	2	0%
Detroit Jazz Festival Foundation	$71,500	2	1%
Detroit Public Theatre	$57,000	3	2%
The Arts League of Michigan	$57,000	3	2%
Birmingham Bloomfield Art Ctr Inc	$51,000	2	2%
Motown Historical Musuem Inc	$51,000	2	0%
Matrix Theatre Company	$50,000	3	5%
Akropolis Quintet Inc	$47,000	4	7%
Arts & Scraps	$45,000	3	4%
Millan Theatre Company	$42,000	3	3%
Eisenhower Dance Ensemble Inc	$38,500	2	2%
Heritage Works	$36,000	3	6%
Detroit Puppet Company	$31,000	3	5%
Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival	$31,000	3	3%
The Detroit Public Library Friends Foundation Inc	$31,000	3	7%
Far Conservatory of Therapeutic and Performing Arts	$30,500	2	1%
Detroit Chamber Winds Inc	$30,500	2	1%
Sidewalk Detroit	$30,000	2	2%
Chamber Music Detroit	$30,000	2	2%
Signal Return Inc	$29,500	3	5%
Planet Ant Theatre Inc	$28,500	2	3%
Plowshares Theatre Company	$27,000	2	15%
Detroit Sound Conservancy	$26,400	3	3%
The Heidelberg Project	$26,000	2	12%
Teen HYPE	$26,000	1	1%
YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit	$25,500	2	0%
Temate Institute for Black Dance and Culture LLC	$23,000	3	15%
Detroit Artists Market	$20,500	2	4%
The Art Center	$20,500	2	2%
Regents of the University of Michigan	$20,500	2	n/a
Garage Cultural	$20,500	2	2%
Young Nation	$20,500	2	10%
Akropolis Quintet Inc	$20,500	2	n/a
Shakespeare in Detroit	$20,000	2	5%
The Detroit Creativity Project	$20,000	2	4%
The Scarab Club	$16,000	2	2%
Michigan State University	$15,500	1	n/a
Seafoam Palace Museum Inc	$15,014	2	n/a
Detroit Recordings LLC	$15,000	1	n/a
Shields Educatio Ent & Consulting	$15,000	1	n/a
Irwin House Inc	$15,000	1	n/a
Sioux Trujillo Studios LLC	$15,000	1	n/a
Canfield Consortium	$15,000	1	8%
Crabby Bull Production	$15,000	1	n/a
Lufuki LLC	$15,000	1	n/a
Creative Wonders	$15,000	1	n/a
Girls Rock Detroit	$14,000	2	n/a
Norwest Gallery of Art LLC	$11,389	1	n/a
Allied Media Projects Inc	$10,500	1	0%
Conjure Noir Films LLC	$10,000	1	n/a
Hadassah Greensky Meshekey Christie	$10,000	1	n/a
Nathaniel Stanley Mullen III	$10,000	1	n/a
Detroit Childrens Choir	$10,000	1	6%
Ellen Rutt Creative Studio LLC	$10,000	1	n/a
Avery Williamson LLC	$9,000	1	n/a
Model-T Automotive Heritage Complex Inc	$8,000	1	0%
Rttm Community Center	$8,000	1	3%
Great Lakes Taiko Center L3c	$8,000	1	n/a
Riverside Arts Center Foundation Inc	$8,000	1	2%
Mint Artists Guild	$6,000	1	6%
Cultureverse	$6,000	1	2%
826 Michigan Inc	$5,500	1	1%
All The World's A Stage	$5,500	1	2%
Troy Historic Village	$5,500	1	n/a
Rackham Symphony Choir	$5,500	1	5%
Motor City Brass Band	$5,000	1	6%
Focushope	$5,000	1	0%
The N'Namdi Center for Contemporary Art	$5,000	1	1%

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Culturesource supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 64.

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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.

Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI88× affinity49 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Kresge Foundation · The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation · The Skillman Foundation · Hudson-Webber Foundation · Max M & Marjorie S Fisher Foundation Inc · DTE Energy Foundation · Michigan Humanities Council · The Miami Foundation Inc · Ford Philanthropy · Flagstar Foundation Inc · United Jewish 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.

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About Culturesource

How much does Culturesource give?: Culturesource reported 76 itemized grants totaling $1,765,000, out of $2,925,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 55 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Culturesource fund?: By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (83%), Education (8%), Animals (4%).
Who are Culturesource's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Detroit Public Media ($166k), Detroit Zoological Society ($145k), The Detroit Institute of Arts ($145k).
Does Culturesource fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Culturesource?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, The Kresge Foundation, The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation.
Where is Culturesource based?: Culturesource is based in MI.