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 Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Flint Cultural Center Foundation, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. 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?

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to arts and culture organizations in Michigan, $51M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

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

$567M reached 793 arts and culture organizations in Michigan, from 1,514 funders. 56% 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 793 groups.

$567M

granted

793

organizations

56%

from in-state

The short version

1,514 funders gave $567M to 793 arts and culture organizations in Michigan across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
56% 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 Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, at $51M.
The arts and culture organization drawing the most is Allied Media Projects Inc, at $65M.

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.

1Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$51M 2Flint Cultural Center Foundation$24M 3Charles Stewart Mott Foundation$22M 4Community Foundation for Southeast$19M 5John S and James L Knight Foundation$13M 6Detroit Jazz Festival Foundation$13M 7John D and Catherine T Macarthur$12M 8Flint Cultural Center Corporation$11M 9The Andrew W Mellon Foundation$11M 10National Philanthropic Trust$10M

Arts and culture organizations in Michigan that draw the most

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

783 other arts and culture organizations$301M

Allied Media Projects Inc$65M Detroit Symphony Orchestra Inc$39M The Detroit Institute of Arts$32M Flint Institute of Music$27M Interlochen Center for the Arts$23M Flint Cultural Center Corporation$18M Motown Historical Musuem Inc$15M

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 Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Flint Cultural Center Foundation, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. 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
44% 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 Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Flint Cultural Center Foundation, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. 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?: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to arts and culture organizations in Michigan, $51M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to arts and culture in Michigan?: $567M reached 793 arts and culture organizations in Michigan, from 1,514 funders. 56% 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 regranting layer

51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

Strange bedfellows

the named clusters of US funding

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

Cause is the recipient's NTEE classification in the IRS Business Master File; 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.