How do I find funders for a arts and culture nonprofit in Michigan?

Start with the funders already giving to arts and culture in Michigan, currently Flint Cultural Center Foundation, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund. Then look at who funds the arts and culture organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Michigan from out of state.

How much grant money goes to arts and culture in Michigan?

$1.7B reached 1,419 arts and culture organizations in Michigan, from 2,683 funders. 66% came from funders also based in Michigan.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · Michigan · Arts and culture

Who funds arts and culture in Michigan

Arts and culture funding in Michigan is unusually spread out: no single organization draws even 12%, though Allied Media Projects Inc leads, and the money reaches 1,419 groups.

$1.7B

granted

1,419

organizations

66%

from in-state

The short version

2,683 funders gave $1.7B to 1,419 arts and culture organizations in Michigan across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
66% of that came from funders also based in Michigan; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of arts and culture in Michigan is Flint Cultural Center Foundation, at $135M.
The arts and culture organization drawing the most is Allied Media Projects Inc, at $118M.

Largest funders of arts and culture in Michigan

The funders giving the most to arts and culture organizations in Michigan, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1Flint Cultural Center Foundation$135M 2Charles Stewart Mott Foundation$122M 3Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$88M 4The Ford Foundation$52M 5Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan$50M 6Detroit Jazz Festival Foundation$34M 7William Davidson Foundation$31M 8Ford Philanthropy$30M 9Corporation for Public Broadcasting$26M 10The Kresge Foundation$25M

Arts and culture organizations in Michigan that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

1,409 other arts and culture organizations$959M

Allied Media Projects Inc$118M Flint Cultural Center Corporation$113M The Detroit Institute of Arts$104M Detroit Symphony Orchestra Inc$97M

How to find arts and culture funders in Michigan

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Start with the funders already active in Michigan
The funders giving the most to arts and culture in Michigan are Flint Cultural Center Foundation, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund. A funder already writing arts and culture checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the arts and culture organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
34% of arts and culture money in Michigan comes from funders elsewhere, so national arts and culture funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Michigan.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a arts and culture nonprofit in Michigan?: Start with the funders already giving to arts and culture in Michigan, currently Flint Cultural Center Foundation, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund. Then look at who funds the arts and culture organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Michigan from out of state.
Who is the largest arts and culture funder in Michigan?: Flint Cultural Center Foundation gives the most to arts and culture organizations in Michigan, $135M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to arts and culture in Michigan?: $1.7B reached 1,419 arts and culture organizations in Michigan, from 2,683 funders. 66% came from funders also based in Michigan.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Giving abroad

which US foundations fund each country

Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.