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Northwest Michigan Arts & Culture Network

The mission of the NORTHWEST MICHIGAN ARTS & CULTURE NETWORK ("the network") is to harness the collective power of the creative sector to cultivate vibrant communities by strengthening the regional ecosystem that supports arts and culture. We do our work through networking, education, promotion, grant opportunities, and backbone services…

$60k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Itemized grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$16k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$15,770
Largest grant, FY2024
$15,770
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$38k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Northwest Michigan Arts & Culture Network funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving1$16k100%
FY20231$6k100%
FY20222$13kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$19kEducation$16k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Dolores Wabanimkee$15,7701n/a
Molly Sturges$7,2831n/a
Forest Area Schools$6,3001n/a
Friends of the Garden Theater$5,50011%

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Find your warmest path to Northwest Michigan Arts & Culture Network through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Northwest Michigan Arts & Culture Network

How much does Northwest Michigan Arts & Culture Network give?
Northwest Michigan Arts & Culture Network reported 1 itemized grants totaling $15,770, out of $59,529 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does Northwest Michigan Arts & Culture Network fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (55%), Education (45%).
Who are Northwest Michigan Arts & Culture Network's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Dolores Wabanimkee ($16k), Molly Sturges ($7k), Forest Area Schools ($6k).
Does Northwest Michigan Arts & Culture Network fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Northwest Michigan Arts & Culture Network based?
Northwest Michigan Arts & Culture Network is based in MI.

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 4 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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