Michigan · Nonprofit
A Host of People Inc
A Host of People Inc (Michigan) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $497,396 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ($130,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $182k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $497k
- Net assets
- $85k
What A Host of People Inc does
Mission
A Host of People is a multi-racial Detroit-based ensemble theater company creating original work that celebrates imagination, complexity, and the synthesis of seemingly disparate elements - at once epic and intimate, political and personal, poetic and approachable. A Host of People exists to create aesthetically rigorous, intellectually challenging theater that is warm, welcoming, and inspiring to people from all walks of life. We choose our subject matter and themes carefully with an eye to stories, topics, and aesthetic approaches that will be equally thrilling to the most adventurous theater fans as well as those with less exposure to the form. This is how A Host of People moves people: we play with the light and the dark the head and the heart.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In 2025, A Host of People continued to expand its creative and community-centered programming while laying groundwork for future growth. The company premiered a new original work by the La Carpa Teen Ensemble, Brilla! Glow! The Awakening of the Alebrijes in Me, a bilingual performance exploring identity, imagination, and cultural inheritance. The ensemble also continued development of Good Ancestors: Shining Cities, a table top theater piece that invites the audience to imagine our cities as beacons of sustainability in order to save our collective future. In parallel, the company began development on Memory Generation, a new performance created in partnership with New Yorkbased company Pink Fang that centers the experiences of people living with memory loss and their caregivers. Throughout the year, A Host of People also deepened our connections and support for our local and national colleagues and community. The company supported visiting productions and welcomed Team Sunshine Performance Corporation from Philadelphia for a presentation of Your Optimism Is Not Required. In addition to artistic programming, the organization announced plans for a new community arts venue that will…
$30,630 spent$5,561 earned by the program58% of program spendingA Host of People offers a variety of educational workshops tailored to the partner or institutions need. Some examples of institutions we provided were the University of Michigan and University Liggett School. AHOP Co- Directors are often asked to serve on panels or consult for an organization to share their varied expertise in generative, socially engaged theater both on the national and local scale.
$21,882 spent$5,822 earned by the program42% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $52,512.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $173k to $113k (−35%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 18% · 2023 24% · 2024 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of A Host of People Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income fell $36k → $34k.
5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of A Host of People Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
A Host of People Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 26% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
84% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund A Host of People Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 44% · 2021 74% · 2022 67% · 2023 36% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
33% of A Host of People Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
56% of A Host of People Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $220k that is directly attributable, 51% of it comes from funders outside Michigan, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $277k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
A Host of People Inc's revenue grew 24% between 2020 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding A Host of People Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $35k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$35k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like A Host of People Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
30% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds A Host of People Inc?
- A Host of People Inc (Michigan) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $497,396 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ($130,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does A Host of People Inc have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $497,396 in grants to A Host of People Inc, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of A Host of People Inc?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN is the largest funder on record, with $130,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like A Host of People Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 11 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing