Michigan · Public charity
Road to Michigan's Future
To conduct educational research and analysis to inform the public on public policies and issues of concern to and affecting the quality of life for Michigan residents; to provide an understanding of how current policy initiatives will affect the well-being of Michigan.
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 10
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 80%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $715k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $450,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 7
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $5.0M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 80% of the organizations Road to Michigan's Future funded were first-time grantees, receiving 78% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $700k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 10 | $715k | 60% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $900k | 80% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $11M | 86% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $436k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $2.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| America Works USA | $11,470,000 | 3 | 72% |
| Michigan Democratic State Central Committee | $1,115,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Keep Mi Safe | $865,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Voting Project | $538,000 | 2 | 40% |
| Story Network Foundation | $450,000 | 1 | 15% |
| Michigan Parent Alliance for Safer Schools | $400,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Jobs for Michigan | $150,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Milwaukee 2020 | $110,000 | 1 | 69% |
| Justice for All Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 14% |
| Detroit Association of Black Organizations | $70,000 | 2 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| America Works USA | $11,470,000 | 3 | 72% |
| Michigan Democratic State Central Committee | $1,115,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Keep Mi Safe | $865,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Voting Project | $538,000 | 2 | 40% |
| Story Network Foundation | $450,000 | 1 | 15% |
| Michigan Parent Alliance for Safer Schools | $400,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Jobs for Michigan | $150,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Milwaukee 2020 | $110,000 | 1 | 69% |
| Justice for All Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 14% |
| Detroit Association of Black Organizations | $70,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Planned Parenthood Advocates of Mi | $60,000 | 1 | 3% |
| League of Conservation Voters Education Fund | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Metro Equity Action Fund | $40,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Prosperity Michigan Inc | $40,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Detroit Unity Fund | $25,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Freedom Institute for Economic Social Justice & People Empowerment | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Community Empowerment Project | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Black Slate | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Moving NC Forward | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| World Outreach Campus of Greater Coleman Temple Ministries Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Michigan Deserves Better | $9,500 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($41k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Road to Michigan's Future supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
About Road to Michigan's Future
- How much does Road to Michigan's Future give?
- Road to Michigan's Future reported 10 itemized grants totaling $714,500, out of $1,431,900 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 7 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Road to Michigan's Future fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (83%), Public Safety & Disaster (6%), Philanthropy (5%).
- Who are Road to Michigan's Future's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: America Works USA ($11M), Michigan Democratic State Central Committee ($1.1M), Keep Mi Safe ($865k).
- Does Road to Michigan's Future fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 80% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Road to Michigan's Future?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sixteen Thirty Fund, Michigan Civic Action Fund.
- Where is Road to Michigan's Future based?
- Road to Michigan's Future is based in MI.
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