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Michigan Architectural Foundation
The mission of the MICHIGAN ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION is to advance public awareness of how architecture enriches life in the state of michigan.
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 1 grants below total $20,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $114,058 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $94,058 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST NEIGHBOR LLC | $20,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
Education Preservation Advocacy
To provide continuing education to its members and others and to promote public awareness in the value of its members and the contributions of the profession to the detroit metropolitan area.
Theater organ concerts & movie theatre
Arboretum Detroits mission is to establish and maintain a public arboretum that demonstrates reforesting Detroits landscape with stands of trees that highlight their form and diversity,
Maintain historical museum
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To protect scenic and natural lands in northern Michigan.
Motion picture exhibition
To promote historical study and preserve the lighthouse museum
Preservation, conservation and restoration of a historical chicago landmark property.
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
A voice of the building industry in Michigan. The primary purpose is to positively influence the legislative, regulatory and legal issues that affect the industry.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Michigan Society of Architects and the most unlike its peers is National Organization of Minority Architects. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 17 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 IDLEWILD FOUNDATION OF HISTORIC PRESERVATION ↗
- Who funds DETROIT SOUND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR PALMER PARK ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTS ↗
- Who funds DETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds POINTE AUX BARQUES LIGHTHOUSE ↗
- Who funds Kalamazoo Nature Center ↗
- Who funds BATTLE CREEK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Highland Cemetery Association ↗
- Who funds EASTERN MARKET DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF MINORITY ARCHITECTS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS GRAND RAPIDS ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile 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 Michigan Architectural Foundation 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.