How much does Michigan Civic Action Fund give?

Michigan Civic Action Fund reported 42 grants totaling $14,425,250 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 38 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.

What does Michigan Civic Action Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (59%), Civil Rights (21%), Health (7%).

Who are Michigan Civic Action Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Progress Michigan Inc ($6.8M), For Michigan ($5.0M), Planned Parenthood Advocates of Mi ($1.8M).

Does Michigan Civic Action Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Michigan Civic Action Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sixteen Thirty Fund, America Votes, Progress Michigan Inc.

Where is Michigan Civic Action Fund based?

Michigan Civic Action Fund is based in MI.

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Michigan · Public charity

Michigan Civic Action Fund

Promoting community welfare and providing community education in michigan by increasing voter participation through nonpartisan research and voter mobilization; increasing voter awareness of public policy issues through nonpartisan educational means; defending human and civil rights such as the right to vote; and recruiting and training…

$14M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 42
Grants FY2024: 19
Organizations funded FY2023: 11%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $160,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $5,040,000
Organizations funded a year: 2 to 38; FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 8
Total assets, FY2024: $1.4M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 11% of the organizations Michigan Civic Action Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Civil RightsPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementHealthEnvironmentEducationOther

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	41	$14M	46%
FY2023	19	$1.3M	11%
FY2022	38	$9.1M	61%
FY2021	11	$2.0M	27%
FY2020	21	$4.9M	71%
FY2019	2	$153k	50%
FY2018	10	$3.5M	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.

Public Benefit$21MCivil Rights$7.4MHealth$2.4MEnvironment$1.7MCrime & Legal$1.1MCommunity Improvement$649kHousing & Shelter$550kScience & Tech$509kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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
Progress Michigan Inc	$6,828,500	6	69%
For Michigan	$5,040,000	1	96%
Planned Parenthood Advocates of Mi	$1,840,000	6	50%
Justice for All - Michigan	$1,515,000	3	n/a
Equality Michigan Action Network	$1,114,000	3	48%
Mi Poder	$1,027,000	3	100%
Michigan Democratic State Central Committee	$1,001,000	5	n/a
Justice for All-Michigan	$950,000	1	n/a
In Union USA Action	$850,000	2	29%
Michigan League of Conservation Voters Education Fund	$846,000	6	14%

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All grantees of Michigan Civic Action Fund by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Progress Michigan Inc	$6,828,500	6	69%
For Michigan	$5,040,000	1	96%
Planned Parenthood Advocates of Mi	$1,840,000	6	50%
Justice for All - Michigan	$1,515,000	3	n/a
Equality Michigan Action Network	$1,114,000	3	48%
Mi Poder	$1,027,000	3	100%
Michigan Democratic State Central Committee	$1,001,000	5	n/a
Justice for All-Michigan	$950,000	1	n/a
In Union USA Action	$850,000	2	29%
Michigan League of Conservation Voters Education Fund	$846,000	6	14%
Michigan Civic Education Fund	$815,000	1	6%
Clean Water Action	$750,000	4	7%
Pontiac Policy Action Fund	$691,000	4	n/a
Michigan Peoples Campaign	$665,000	4	19%
Promote the Vote	$660,000	4	n/a
Berrien Forward	$647,750	3	87%
Tides Advocacy	$566,000	5	0%
Two Peninsulas Research Group	$508,500	2	n/a
Committee to Protect Health Care	$495,000	1	19%
Civic Empowerment Coalition	$487,000	3	30%
Prosperity Michigan Inc	$455,000	2	9%
For Our Future Action Fund	$453,000	2	2%
America Votes	$350,000	1	1%
Actblue Civics Inc	$330,000	3	3%
Arab Americans for Progress	$284,000	3	100%
Mothering Justice	$260,000	2	4%
Count Mi Vote	$240,000	4	8%
Center for Empowered Politics	$225,000	1	2%
American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan	$200,000	1	10%
Distill Social	$195,000	3	60%
We The People Action Fund	$175,000	2	5%
Detroit Action	$175,000	1	n/a
People First Policy	$166,000	1	100%
Elevated Voices Inc	$160,000	1	100%
Action for Liberation	$150,000	1	5%
Glpa-Lead	$147,000	4	31%
Great Lakes Political Academy	$125,000	2	n/a
Emgage Foundation Inc	$114,000	3	2%
Fems for Democracy	$100,000	1	32%
Progress Michigan Political	$100,000	1	n/a
Michigan Center of Accountability for Republicans	$100,000	1	100%
Planned Parenthood of Michigan	$100,000	1	0%
Aapi Victory Power Fund	$95,000	1	3%
Emgage Action Inc	$85,000	1	5%
Michigan Voices	$85,000	1	1%
Michigan League of Conservation Voters Inc	$75,000	1	5%
Mi Rural Advocates	$50,000	1	46%
Red Wine & Blue	$50,000	1	1%
Promote the Vote Fund Inc	$50,000	1	11%
Working Families Party National PAC	$50,000	1	n/a
Metro Equity Action Fund	$50,000	1	n/a
DemCast USA	$35,000	1	7%
41st District Service Office Inc	$31,000	2	n/a
Farough & Associates LLC	$30,000	1	n/a
Ruralorganizingorg	$30,000	1	4%
Restaurant Opportunities Centers United Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Progress Michigan Education Inc	$25,000	1	4%
The Michigan Environmental Council Action Fund	$25,000	1	7%
Michigan Association for Justice	$25,000	1	1%
Center for Change A Northern MI Adv	$25,000	1	8%
Goodman Acker PC	$25,000	2	n/a
Citizens for a Better Michigan	$25,000	1	4%
One Voice Michigan	$25,000	1	n/a
Liberation Policy Action Cente	$20,000	1	10%
Economic Justice Alliance of Michigan	$20,000	1	1%
Campus Organizing Support Services	$15,000	1	3%
Michigan Deserves Better	$6,000	1	n/a

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.5M), not named here.

Michigan Civic Action Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 16 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 51 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 51.

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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.

Sixteen Thirty FundDC48.5× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · America Votes · Progress Michigan Inc · North Fund · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Tides Advocacy · Tides Foundation · State Engagement Fund · Hopewell Fund · Michigan Civic Education Fund · Pro-Democracy Campaign · Open Society Action Fund Inc

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 Michigan Civic Action Fund

How much does Michigan Civic Action Fund give?: Michigan Civic Action Fund reported 42 grants totaling $14,425,250 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 38 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Michigan Civic Action Fund fund?: By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (59%), Civil Rights (21%), Health (7%).
Who are Michigan Civic Action Fund's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Progress Michigan Inc ($6.8M), For Michigan ($5.0M), Planned Parenthood Advocates of Mi ($1.8M).
Does Michigan Civic Action Fund fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Michigan Civic Action Fund?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sixteen Thirty Fund, America Votes, Progress Michigan Inc.
Where is Michigan Civic Action Fund based?: Michigan Civic Action Fund is based in MI.