How much does Michigan Voices give?

Michigan Voices reported 50 itemized grants totaling $4,329,416, out of $4,749,505 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 36 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.

What does Michigan Voices fund?

By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (73%), Civil Rights (13%), Health (6%).

Who are Michigan Voices's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote - Michigan ($769k), Michigan Organizing Project ($602k), Planned Parenthood of Michigan ($500k).

Does Michigan Voices fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Michigan Voices?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kalamazoo Community Foundation, State Voices, Bvm Capacity Building Institute Inc.

Where is Michigan Voices based?

Michigan Voices is based in MI.

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Michigan · Public charity

Michigan Voices

The organization seeks to build civic engagment capacity in progressive nonprofit groups that are led by and engage black, indigenous and people of color.

$4.7M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 50
Itemized grants FY2024: 25
Organizations funded FY2023: 16%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $4.3M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $50,140
Largest grant, FY2024: $501,700
Organizations funded a year: 11 to 36; FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 5
Total assets, FY2024: $6.2M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 16% of the organizations Michigan Voices funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Civil RightsHuman ServicesHealthPublic BenefitReligionCommunity ImprovementOther

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	47	$3.5M	47%
FY2023	25	$478k	16%
FY2022	36	$2.4M	78%
FY2021	11	$485k	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, FY2021 to 2024.

Public Benefit$5.9MCivil Rights$1.0MHealth$505kReligion$205kHuman Services$149kCommunity Improvement$96kEducation$60kCrime & Legal$30kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote - Michigan	$768,676	4	20%
Michigan Organizing Project	$602,202	2	13%
Planned Parenthood of Michigan	$500,000	1	2%
Michigan Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Network	$458,670	3	75%
The Proactive Project Inc	$297,050	2	43%
North Flint Neighborhood Action Council Inc	$294,100	2	n/a
Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation	$241,122	4	3%
A Philip Randolph Institute Detroit Downriver	$186,406	4	48%
Nonprofit Enterprise at Work Inc	$178,133	1	7%
Emgage Foundation Inc	$161,025	3	3%

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All grantees of Michigan Voices by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote - Michigan	$768,676	4	20%
Michigan Organizing Project	$602,202	2	13%
Planned Parenthood of Michigan	$500,000	1	2%
Michigan Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Network	$458,670	3	75%
The Proactive Project Inc	$297,050	2	43%
North Flint Neighborhood Action Council Inc	$294,100	2	n/a
Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation	$241,122	4	3%
A Philip Randolph Institute Detroit Downriver	$186,406	4	48%
Nonprofit Enterprise at Work Inc	$178,133	1	7%
Emgage Foundation Inc	$161,025	3	3%
Warriors on Wheels of Metropolitan Detroit	$160,250	3	18%
Society for Humanistic Judaism	$155,333	3	4%
Glpa-Lead Education Fund	$150,000	1	60%
Identify Your Dream Corporation	$148,000	2	39%
Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund	$145,100	3	1%
Our Own Wall Street	$142,620	4	50%
LGBT Detroit	$135,515	4	9%
Wisdom Institute	$128,082	4	24%
Equality Michigan	$120,000	2	5%
Michigan Disability Rights Coalition	$112,050	3	2%
Michigan Faith in Action	$102,500	2	15%
Michigan League of Conservation Voters Education Fund	$100,400	3	3%
Second's New Vision and Outreach Ministries	$92,475	4	73%
Mohtering Justice	$83,750	1	n/a
International Fuller Woman Network	$81,500	3	n/a
Count Mi Vote Education Fund	$70,500	1	2%
Thou Art Embrace The Rock	$69,100	1	n/a
482 Forward	$63,000	2	2%
Michigan Organization on Adolescent Sexual Health	$60,000	2	2%
Center for Community Conversations	$55,800	1	n/a
Pirg New Voters Project Inc	$54,500	3	85%
Doughboys Give Back	$52,500	1	n/a
Journey Faith Group Inc	$50,140	1	n/a
American Arab Heritage Council	$45,250	1	15%
Fair Elections Center	$45,000	1	0%
The Better Men Outreach Program	$43,211	1	n/a
Labor Council for Latin American Advancement	$42,000	1	6%
One Love Global	$41,982	2	4%
Michigan Student Power Alliance	$35,000	1	n/a
Ready Set Serve	$34,000	1	n/a
Young Women's Christian Association of Kalamazoo Mi	$32,000	2	0%
Moses (Metropolitan Organizing Strategy Enabling Strength)	$31,250	2	4%
Miigwech Inc	$30,000	1	3%
Safe & Just Michigan	$30,000	1	1%
Ravendale Community Inc	$26,500	1	n/a
Common Cause Education Fund	$25,700	1	0%
S&D Pj Housing	$24,082	1	19%
Timbuktu Community Services	$20,512	1	n/a
Latin Americans United for Progress Inc	$20,000	1	1%
League of Women Voters of Michigan Education Fund	$20,000	1	13%
Righteous Sons	$20,000	2	n/a
Michigan Interfaith Power & Light Inc	$20,000	1	5%
Mothering Justice	$18,000	2	0%
Waub Ajijaak Press & Foundation	$17,500	2	2%
Alicias Helping Hand	$17,368	1	59%
Community AIDS Resource & Education Services of Southwest Michigan	$16,889	2	0%
Nation Outside Inc	$16,000	1	1%
Charity for People Powered Democracy	$14,500	1	n/a
Congregation T Chiyah	$12,500	1	n/a
Mothers of Hope	$12,000	1	n/a
The Made Institute	$12,000	1	1%
Emergent Justice	$10,000	1	n/a
A Philip Randolph Educational Fund	$10,000	1	3%
Thredz Inc	$8,000	1	n/a
Student Advocacy Center of Michigan Inc	$7,500	1	0%

Michigan Voices supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 47 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 47.

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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 FoundationMI51× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kalamazoo Community Foundation · State Voices · Bvm Capacity Building Institute Inc · Michigan Civic Education Fund · Tides Foundation · Michigan Nonprofit Association · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Promote the Vote Fund Inc · The Skillman Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors 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 Voices

How much does Michigan Voices give?: Michigan Voices reported 50 itemized grants totaling $4,329,416, out of $4,749,505 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 36 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Michigan Voices fund?: By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (73%), Civil Rights (13%), Health (6%).
Who are Michigan Voices's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote - Michigan ($769k), Michigan Organizing Project ($602k), Planned Parenthood of Michigan ($500k).
Does Michigan Voices fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Michigan Voices?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kalamazoo Community Foundation, State Voices, Bvm Capacity Building Institute Inc.
Where is Michigan Voices based?: Michigan Voices is based in MI.