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ANN ARBOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

ANN ARBOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $102,501,493 to it, the largest being VAUGHAN FOUNDATION ($69,709,616). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year. ANN ARBOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.

Revenue FY2024
$23M
Funders on record
61
Grants received
$103M
Net assets
$220M
19/61 repeat funders

Hosts funds for others

ANN ARBOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programANN ARBOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.

Paid out

$57M

Recipients

425

Contributions on record

$103M

Donors on record

60

Payments out are 0.55x the contributions on record, so the balance accumulates rather than passing straight through.

01The 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($46M) Expenses 100 ($6.3M) Net assets 100 ($134M)2018 Revenue 22 ($10M) Expenses 156 ($9.8M) Net assets 94 ($125M)2019 Revenue 21 ($9.9M) Expenses 132 ($8.3M) Net assets 109 ($146M)2020 Revenue 48 ($22M) Expenses 168 ($11M) Net assets 132 ($177M)2021 Revenue 68 ($32M) Expenses 220 ($14M) Net assets 159 ($213M)2022 Revenue 50 ($23M) Expenses 215 ($14M) Net assets 135 ($181M)2023 Revenue 22 ($10M) Expenses 212 ($13M) Net assets 151 ($202M)2024 Revenue 49 ($23M) Expenses 235 ($15M) Net assets 165 ($220M)
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Revenue (49)Expenses (235)Net assets (165)

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 $178M to $219M (+24%).

$135M
$127M
$147M
$178M
$219M
$186M
$208M
$227M
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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

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$40M
’17
$431k
’18
$1.6M
’19
$12M
’20
$18M
’21
$9.8M
’22
−$3.1M
’23
$7.9M
’24
1.3
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.

Chief executive

Shannon Polk

President & CEO

Board chair

Sean Duval

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.

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Listed2225272523212424
Joined·+4+6+3+5+4+6+4
No longer listed·1457634
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 12 funders, grant income fell $20M → $405k.

15 of 61 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 ANN ARBOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 61 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.

Where its funders are

100% of ANN ARBOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Michigan funders.

MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
NV
NJ
CA
CO
VA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.

03Its place in the field
04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 11%Fundraising 7%

Governance

20
board members
95%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

50%

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 1 related entity

  • Charitable Remainder Trust (1) · corp_trust

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ANN ARBOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds ANN ARBOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION?
ANN ARBOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $102,501,493 to it, the largest being VAUGHAN FOUNDATION ($69,709,616). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year. ANN ARBOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
How many funders does ANN ARBOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 61 organizations giving $102,501,493 in grants to ANN ARBOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ANN ARBOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION?
VAUGHAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $69,709,616 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ANN ARBOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 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 61 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