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ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC

ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC (Michigan) receives grants from 304 organizations whose IRS filings report $122,403,255 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($16,448,500). 129 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$20M
Funders on record
304
Grants received
$122M
Net assets
$27M
129/304 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 83%
01What it does

What Allied Media Projects Inc does

Mission

Allied media projects cultivates media strategies for a more just, creative, and collaborative world. We serve a network of media makers, artists, educators, and technologists working for social justice.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Through the annual allied media conference we innovate and exchange models for using media for transformative social change. Out of the conference emerge new projects, campaigns, and collaborations that continue year round. Through our sponsored projects program, amp offers these projects access to a range of supportive services including fiscal management, project planning, fundraising support, and communications strategy.

    $23,744,627 spentof which $6,665,313 as grants$1,794,447 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $23,744,627.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($4.1M) Expenses 100 ($3.5M) Net assets 100 ($2.2M)2018 Revenue 195 ($8.0M) Expenses 156 ($5.5M) Net assets 216 ($4.8M)2019 Revenue 312 ($13M) Expenses 226 ($7.9M) Net assets 439 ($9.8M)2020 Revenue 513 ($21M) Expenses 330 ($12M) Net assets 870 ($19M)2021 Revenue 989 ($41M) Expenses 532 ($19M) Net assets 1866 ($42M)2022 Revenue 703 ($29M) Expenses 752 ($26M) Net assets 1717 ($38M)2023 Revenue 584 ($24M) Expenses 948 ($33M) Net assets 1582 ($35M)2024 Revenue 493 ($20M) Expenses 816 ($29M) Net assets 1216 ($27M)
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Revenue (493)Expenses (816)Net assets (1216)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $22M to $52M (+137%).

$2.4M
$6.2M
$12M
$22M
$52M
$52M
$37M
$29M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

93% of ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 810 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$630k
’17
$2.6M
’18
$5.0M
’19
$9.6M
’20
$22M
’21
$2.7M
’22
−$9.0M
’23
−$8.2M
’24
8.5
months of
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.

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Listed7991116181715
Joined·+2+2+3+7+7+3+3
No longer listed·0212545
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 23 funders to 101 funders, grant income rose $2.4M → $20M.

55 of 304 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 304 funders by total. 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

ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 11 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 11 funders to its left

35% 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 ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC.

13%
largest funder
27%
top three
~25
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 24% · 2019 33% · 2020 21% · 2021 19% · 2022 14% · 2023 11% — 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 ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 29 states in all.

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VT
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IL
MI
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PA
NJ
CT
RI
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CO
VA
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NC
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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $28M arriving through sponsors registered in 20 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 772 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−40% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve8.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)26% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 772 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Government funding ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $132k on record — $120k federal, $12k state.

Federal$120k
grants $120kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$120k
State$12k
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20
Top programs
  • TRAINING, EDUCATION OR INSTRUCTION SRVC$12k

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 4%Fundraising 2%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

81%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MI

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Allied Media Action Fund · exempt
  • Love Bldg Incorporated · exempt
  • Love Building Support Corporation · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC?
ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC (Michigan) receives grants from 304 organizations whose IRS filings report $122,403,255 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($16,448,500). 129 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC have?
IRS filings report 304 organizations giving $122,403,255 in grants to ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC, 129 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC?
THE FORD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $16,448,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 304 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing