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Culturesource

CULTURESOURCE advances creative and cultural expression in southeast michigan.

$2.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
76
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$83k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$2.8MEducation$275kAnimals$145kHuman Services$56kYouth Development$52kHealth$51kCommunity Improvement$8kCivil Rights$5k
02FY2024 · 76 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 76 grants below total $1,765,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,925,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,160,000 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 $10k13 grants · $91k
  • $10k–50k57 grants · $1.2M
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $438k
$15,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA DBA WRCJ 909$83,000
DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$77,500
DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS$72,500
DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY$72,500
COLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES$70,000
BOARD OF GOVENORS DBA WAYNE STATE$62,500
SPHINX ORGANIZATION INC$36,500
INSIDEOUT LITERARY ARTS PROJECT$36,500
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER$36,500
MOSAIC YOUTH THEATRE$36,500
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT$36,500
DETROIT JAZZ FESTIVAL FOUNDATION$36,500
THE HENRY FORD$36,500
MACOMB COMMUNITY COLLEGE$36,500
DETROIT HISTORICAL SOCIETY$36,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $107k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Y ARTS YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $15k → 21%Y ARTS YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $11k → 21%CANFIELD CONSORTIUM: $15k → 21%FOCUS HOPE: $5k → 21%ARAB AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $31k → 21%ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC: $30k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.0M · 56 repeat orgs$323k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +10% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.

56 repeat relationships — 54 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
10

Total granted

$3.0M
$87k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+6%

Still filing today

86%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $237k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationAnimalsCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • DP
    DETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA
    3× · 2022–2024 · $166k · revenue +13%
  • DZ
    DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $145k · revenue +16%
  • THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS
    3× · 2022–2024 · $145k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • NG
    NORWEST GALLERY OF ART LLC
    one grant, 2023 · $11k
  • ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $11k · revenue +153%
  • NS
    NATHANIEL STANLEY MULLEN III
    one grant, 2022 · $10k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Cinema Detroit

Motion picture exhibition

Arts & Culture
2
Detroit Dance Collective

Detroit dance collective believes in the expressive power of dance as a transformative force that reflects significant social issues and human expression. through our performances and educational programs, we explore the intellectual,…

Arts & Culture
3
Detroit Performing Artists Inc

The goal of the detroit performing artists is to provide quality artistic performance opportunities for the amateur musician, performance and income opportunities for the professional musician and educational opportunities for younger…

Arts & Culture
4
Detroit Theater Organ Society

Theater organ concerts & movie theatre

Arts & Culture
5
Michigan Philharmonic

To enrich the communities of Southeastern Michigan in fostering excellence and innovation to our community in the performance of orchestral music to educate current and future audiences

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6
Great Lakes Center for the Arts

The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.

Arts & Culture
7
Mighty Real Queer Detroit

Mighty Real/Queer Detroit provides a platform for artistic exploration of various queer perspectives. The organization uses the contemplative spirit of the arts to foster an understanding of the diversity of the LGBTQ+ experience, which…

Arts & Culture
8
Northwest Michigan Arts & Culture Network

The mission of the northwest michigan arts & culture network ("the network") is to harness the collective power of the creative sector to cultivate vibrant communities by strengthening the regional ecosystem that supports arts and culture.…

Arts & Culture
9
About Face Detroit
—
10
Ann Arbor Art Association

To be a contemporary forum for thevisual arts through education, exploration, collaboration and exhibition, and to engage minds, expand perspectives and inspire growth in students of all ages, teachers, artists, and the community.

Arts & Culture
11
Buffalo Prescott Foundation

Buffalo prescott's mission is to nurture the growth of detroit's contemporary art ecosystem by providing direct material support to artists, fostering multi-layered interactions, and offering accessible educational/cultural programming.

Philanthropy
12
D Cipher

D.Cipher is a music mastermind collective and organization that serves Detroits community of musicians through shared learning, resources, and collaboration, and uplifts and celebrates Detroits musical legacy and emerging musical talent by…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Detroit Creativity Project and the most unlike its peers is Canfield Consortium. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyJewish Community Organizati…Detroit Area Arts Organizat…Mental Illness Residential …Detroit Community Developme…Industry Trade AssociationsPerforming Arts Organizatio…Healthcare Systems and Prov…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%3%<5yr15%9%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr12%19%35–55yr13%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%1%<5yr15%4%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr12%19%35–55yr13%42%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/88
the rest of the field
17%
2,882/16,520

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.

04the grantee network

65 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. 65 of the 88 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/65
Grantees still filing
38/65
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA — $166,000 · Arts & CultureDETROIT PUBLIC MEDIATHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS — $145,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTSDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $131,000 · Arts & CultureDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCINSIDEOUT LITERARY ARTS PROJECT — $78,500 · Arts & CultureTHE PEWABIC SOCIETY INC — $78,000 · Arts & CultureSPHINX ORGANIZATION INC — $76,500 · Arts & CultureLiving Arts — $75,000 · Arts & Culture+39 more — $1,476,400 · Arts & Culture+39 moreCOLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES — $136,000 · OtherCOLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUD…WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY — $125,000 · OtherWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITYMACOMB COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $73,000 · OtherMACOMB COMMUNITY COLLEGEARTS & SCRAPS — $45,000 · OtherARTS & SCRAPSFAR CONSERVATORY OF THERAPEUTIC AND PERFORMING ARTS — $30,500 · OtherSIDEWALK DETROIT — $30,000 · Other+25 more — $338,903 · Other+25 moreDETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $145,000 · AnimalsARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S — $61,000 · Human ServicesYMCA of Metropolitan Detroit — $25,500 · Human ServicesCANFIELD CONSORTIUM — $15,000 · Human ServicesFOCUSHOPE — $5,000 · Human ServicesCRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY — $71,500 · EducationTHE DETROIT PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC — $31,000 · EducationTeen HYPE — $26,000 · Youth DevelopmentYoung Nation — $20,500 · Youth DevelopmentMINT ARTISTS GUILD — $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentRTTM COMMUNITY CENTER — $8,000 · Community Improvement
Arts & Culture$2,226,400Other$778,403Animals$145,000Human Services$106,500Education$102,500Youth Development$52,500Community Improvement$8,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA — $166,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $145,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS — $145,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $131,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetINSIDEOUT LITERARY ARTS PROJECT — $78,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetTHE PEWABIC SOCIETY INC — $78,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetSPHINX ORGANIZATION INC — $76,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLiving Arts — $75,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetDetroit Historical Society — $73,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC — $73,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMOSAIC YOUTH THEATRE OF DETROIT — $73,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT — $73,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetMUSIC HALL CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $73,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY — $72,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDETROIT OPERA — $72,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE EDISON INSTITUTE INC — $71,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY — $71,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT JAZZ FESTIVAL FOUNDATION — $71,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S — $61,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARTS LEAGUE OF MICHIGAN — $57,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetDETROIT PUBLIC THEATRE — $57,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetBirmingham Bloomfield Art Ctr Inc — $51,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetMOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM INC — $51,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMATRIX THEATRE COMPANY — $50,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetAKROPOLIS QUINTET INC — $47,000 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetARTS & SCRAPS — $45,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetMillan Theatre Company — $42,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetEISENHOWER DANCE ENSEMBLE INC — $38,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetHERITAGE WORKS — $36,000 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetDETROIT PUPPET COMPANY — $31,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetGREAT LAKES CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL — $31,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetTHE DETROIT PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC — $31,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetFAR CONSERVATORY OF THERAPEUTIC AND PERFORMING ARTS — $30,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetDETROIT CHAMBER WINDS INC — $30,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCHAMBER MUSIC DETROIT — $30,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetSIDEWALK DETROIT — $30,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetSIGNAL RETURN INC — $29,500 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetPLANET ANT THEATRE INC — $28,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetPLOWSHARES THEATRE COMPANY — $27,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetDETROIT SOUND CONSERVANCY — $26,400 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetTeen HYPE — $26,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE HEIDELBERG PROJECT — $26,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetYMCA of Metropolitan Detroit — $25,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTEMATE INSTITUTE FOR BLACK DANCE AND CULTURE LLC — $23,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetDETROIT ARTISTS MARKET — $20,500 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetTHE ART CENTER — $20,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetGarage Cultural — $20,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetYoung Nation — $20,500 over 2y, 10% of budget
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.

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.

Community Foundation …The Kresge FoundationThe Fred & Barbara Er…The Skillman Foundati…Hudson-Webber Foundat…Max M & Marjorie S Fi…Dte Energy FoundationMichigan Humanities C…The Miami Foundation …Ford PhilanthropyFlagstar Foundation I…United Jewish Foundat…
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

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 Culturesource 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 88 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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