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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.

$109k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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$101kRecreation & Sports$50kCommunity Improvement$22kEnvironment$20kPhilanthropy$10kMembership Benefit$10kEducation$9k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $43,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $109,008 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $65,508 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 $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $36k
$11,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF HARRISVILLE TRAIN DEPOT$25,000
NOMA - DETROIT$11,000
Individual grant recipient$7,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BALDWIN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $9k → 8%POINTE AUX BARQUES LIGHTHOUSE SOCIE: $15k → 12%KALAMAZOO NATURE CENTER: $10k → 12%FRIENDS OF HARRISVILLE TRAIN DEPOT: $25k → 13%HIGHLAND CEMETARY ASSOCIATION: $10k → 14%BATTLE CREEK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%MACKINAC STATE HISTORIC PARKS: $30k → 14%PEOPLE FOR PALMER PARK: $20k → 21%GABL MEDIA GROUP: $7k → 7%DETROIT PUBLIC TELEVISION: $15k → 8%AIA SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $8k → 12%AIAM MICHIGAN: $11k → 21%NOMA - DETROIT: $11k → 21%NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF MINORITY A: $7k → 21%AIAM MICHIGAN: $6k → 21%DETROIT SOUND CONSERVANCY: $20k → 21%FIRST NEIGHBOR LLC: $20k → 21%EASTERN MARKET DEVELOPMENT CO: $10k → 21%SEAFOAM PALACE MUSEUM INC: $8k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

1
Preservation Detroit

Education Preservation Advocacy

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2
American Institute of Architects Detroit Chapter

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.

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3
Muskegon Heritage Association

Maintain historical museum

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4
Detroit Theater Organ Society

Theater organ concerts & movie theatre

Arts & Culture
5
Arboretum Detroit

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,

Environment
6
Norwood Park Historical Society

Preservation, conservation and restoration of a historical chicago landmark property.

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7
Michigan City Historical Socie

To promote historical study and preserve the lighthouse museum

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8
Little Traverse Conservancy Conservation Trust

To protect scenic and natural lands in northern Michigan.

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9
Cinema Detroit

Motion picture exhibition

Arts & Culture
10
Friends of Highland State Recreation Area

Maintain and expand park service area to enhance visitor experience

Arts & Culture
11
Historical Society of Michigan

The Historical Society of Michigan will foster in citizens a deeper understanding of and appreciation for all Michigan history through programs and publications; preserve and promote Michigan history through conferences, publications,…

Arts & Culture
12
Michigan Museums Association

The organization provides services that promote the growth and professionalism of the museum community and advocates on that community's behalf.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Michigan Society of Architects; 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.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
7/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MACKINAC STATE HISTORIC PARKS: $30,000 · OtherMACKINAC STATE HISTORIC PARKSMICHIGAN SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTS: $17,450 · OtherMICHIGAN SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTSNOMA - DETROIT: $11,000 · OtherNOMA - DETROITROUND ISLAND LIGHTHOUSE PRESERVATIO: $10,000 · OtherROUND ISLAND LIGHTHOUSE PRESERVATIOHighland Cemetery Association: $10,000 · OtherHighland Cemetery AssociationBALDWIN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $8,791 · OtherBALDWIN PUBLIC LIBRARYSEAFOAM PALACE MUSEUM INC: $7,500 · OtherSEAFOAM PALACE MUSEUM INCIndividual grant recipient: $7,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGABL MEDIA GROUP: $6,500 · OtherGABL MEDIA GROUPAMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS GRAND RAPIDS: $5,500 · OtherFRIENDS OF HARRISVILLE TRAIN DEPOT: $25,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF HARRISVILLE TRAIN DEPOTDETROIT SOUND CONSERVANCY: $20,000 · Arts & CultureDETROIT SOUND CONSERVANCYIDLEWILD FOUNDATION OF HISTORIC PRESERVATION: $20,000 · Arts & CultureIDLEWILD FOUNDATION OF HISTORIC PRESERVA…POINTE AUX BARQUES LIGHTHOUSE: $15,000 · Arts & CulturePOINTE AUX BARQUES LIGHTHOUSEDETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA: $15,000 · Arts & CultureDETROIT PUBLIC MEDIAPEOPLE FOR PALMER PARK: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsEASTERN MARKET DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10,000 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF MINORITY ARCHITECTS: $6,500 · Community ImprovementBATTLE CREEK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyKalamazoo Nature Center: $10,000 · Environment
Other$114,241Arts & Culture$95,000Recreation & Sports$20,000Community Improvement$16,500Philanthropy$10,000Environment$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRIENDS OF HARRISVILLE TRAIN DEPOT: $25,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetPEOPLE FOR PALMER PARK: $20,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetDETROIT SOUND CONSERVANCY: $20,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetIDLEWILD FOUNDATION OF HISTORIC PRESERVATION: $20,000 over 1y, 48% of budgetMICHIGAN SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTS: $17,450 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetPOINTE AUX BARQUES LIGHTHOUSE: $15,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetDETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBATTLE CREEK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEASTERN MARKET DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetHighland Cemetery Association: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetKalamazoo Nature Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF MINORITY ARCHITECTS: $6,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS GRAND RAPIDS: $5,500 over 1y, 3.7% of budget
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Michigan Architectural Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michigan Architectural Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 20 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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