How much does Michigan Civic Education Fund give?

Michigan Civic Education Fund reported 39 grants totaling $12,158,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 27 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does Michigan Civic Education Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (52%), Education (20%), Civil Rights (11%).

Who are Michigan Civic Education Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: The Voter Project Fund ($3.6M), Progress Michigan Education Inc ($3.2M), Michigan Voices ($3.0M).

Does Michigan Civic Education Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

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

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kalamazoo Community Foundation, Tides Foundation, New Venture Fund.

Where is Michigan Civic Education Fund based?

Michigan Civic Education Fund is based in MI.

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Michigan · Public charity

Michigan Civic Education Fund

To initiate, cultivate, and fund strategic nonpartisan efforts in michigan to promote economic and educational opportunity; enhance the quality of life and social welfare; defend and improve government accountability, ethics, and transparency; and strengthen democracy and civic participation.

$12M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 39
Grants FY2024: 11
Organizations funded FY2023: 45%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $75,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $3,590,000
Organizations funded a year: 5 to 27; FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 9
Total assets, FY2024: $2.8M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 45% of the organizations Michigan Civic Education Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 69% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $530k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Civil RightsHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitArts & CultureEducationOther

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	33	$11M	48%
FY2023	11	$773k	45%
FY2022	27	$2.9M	70%
FY2021	15	$908k	80%
FY2020	5	$343k	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, FY2020 to 2024.

Public Benefit$9.0MEducation$3.5MCivil Rights$1.9MPhilanthropy$950kHealth$635kCommunity Improvement$439kArts & Culture$298kHuman Services$248kOther$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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Voter Project Fund	$3,590,000	1	21%
Progress Michigan Education Inc	$3,176,000	4	65%
Michigan Voices	$3,025,500	4	21%
Promote the Vote Fund Inc	$1,045,000	3	25%
Equality Michigan	$804,500	4	24%
Ohio Progressive Collaborative Education Fund	$415,000	1	7%
PA Alliance Foundation	$415,000	1	6%
482 Forward	$288,500	2	6%
Michigan Organizing Project	$246,500	3	2%
Miigwech Inc	$246,500	4	49%

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All grantees of Michigan Civic Education Fund by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Voter Project Fund	$3,590,000	1	21%
Progress Michigan Education Inc	$3,176,000	4	65%
Michigan Voices	$3,025,500	4	21%
Promote the Vote Fund Inc	$1,045,000	3	25%
Equality Michigan	$804,500	4	24%
Ohio Progressive Collaborative Education Fund	$415,000	1	7%
PA Alliance Foundation	$415,000	1	6%
482 Forward	$288,500	2	6%
Michigan Organizing Project	$246,500	3	2%
Miigwech Inc	$246,500	4	49%
Organizing Empowerment Fund Inc	$230,000	1	3%
Michigan Disability Rights Coalition	$200,000	2	3%
State Voices	$181,500	2	0%
Committee to Protect Health Care Education Fund	$150,000	1	24%
Jcg Michigan Inc	$135,000	1	n/a
Greater Flint Health Coalition Inc	$115,000	1	1%
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of Michigan	$110,000	1	2%
Community AIDS Resource & Education Services of Southwest Michigan	$100,000	2	2%
Public Democracy America	$100,000	1	2%
Count Mi Vote Education Fund	$100,000	2	2%
Courier Newsroom Inc	$100,000	1	n/a
Freedom Institute for Economic Social Justice & People Empowerment	$100,000	1	n/a
League of Women Voters of Michigan Education Fund	$91,017	3	54%
Berrien Connection	$82,500	3	100%
The Michigan Center for Civic Education	$80,000	1	26%
Promote the Vote	$75,000	1	n/a
Urban Core Collective	$70,000	1	5%
Healthy House	$64,200	2	24%
Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation	$58,000	2	1%
Interfaith Strategy for Advocacy and Action in the Community	$55,500	2	3%
Regents of the University of Michigan	$50,000	1	n/a
We the People MI	$50,000	2	1%
Affirmations Community Center	$50,000	1	3%
Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund	$50,000	1	0%
Local First Educational Foundation	$50,000	1	10%
Michigan League of Conservation Voters Education Fund	$50,000	2	1%
Emgage Foundation Inc	$50,000	1	2%
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People	$45,300	2	n/a
Hispanic Center of Western Michigan Inc	$40,000	1	2%
The Diatribe Inc	$40,000	1	4%
Mothers of Hope	$36,000	2	3%
Red Wine & Blue Education Fund	$35,000	1	1%
Community Partners	$35,000	1	0%
People First Economy	$30,000	1	n/a
Asian & Pacific Islander American Vote	$25,000	1	0%
Glpa-Lead	$25,000	2	2%
African Bureau of Immigration and Social Affairs (Abisa)	$25,000	1	n/a
Ufw Foundation	$20,000	1	0%
Kalamazoo Gay & Lesbian Resource Center	$20,000	1	2%
Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote - Michigan	$20,000	2	2%
Lansing News Fund for Community Journalism	$15,000	1	n/a
Clean Water Fund	$15,000	1	0%
Goodman Acker PC	$10,000	1	n/a
Southwestern Michigan Urban League	$7,500	1	1%
Burmese American Initiative Inc	$7,500	1	0%
Voces	$7,500	1	0%
Pinsky Smith Fayette & Kennedy	$6,000	1	n/a

Michigan Civic Education Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 46 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 46.

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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.

Kalamazoo Community FoundationMI41.3× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · New Venture Fund · Michigan Voices · Hopewell Fund · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Michigan Nonprofit Association · State Voices · WK Kellogg Foundation · Windward Fund · NEO Philanthropy 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 Education Fund

How much does Michigan Civic Education Fund give?: Michigan Civic Education Fund reported 39 grants totaling $12,158,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 27 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Michigan Civic Education Fund fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (52%), Education (20%), Civil Rights (11%).
Who are Michigan Civic Education Fund's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: The Voter Project Fund ($3.6M), Progress Michigan Education Inc ($3.2M), Michigan Voices ($3.0M).
Does Michigan Civic Education Fund fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Michigan Civic Education Fund?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kalamazoo Community Foundation, Tides Foundation, New Venture Fund.
Where is Michigan Civic Education Fund based?: Michigan Civic Education Fund is based in MI.