Michigan · Nonprofit
Ann Arbor Summer Festival Inc
Ann Arbor Summer Festival Inc (Michigan) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $922,243 to it, the largest being DUFFY FOUNDATION ($320,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $922k
- Net assets
- $670k
What Ann Arbor Summer Festival Inc does
Mission
To present arts and entertainment that enrich the cultural, economic, and social vitality of the region.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In a typical season, approximately 10,000 people purchase tickets to our indoor performance event series that features marquee artists and is an important part of A2SF's mission to present a world-class celebration of arts and entertainment that enriches the cultural, economic, and social vitality of the region. Additionally, A2SF provides affordable student tickets, and provides complimentary tickets to community partners and through the Good Neighbor Ticket program. There were not any ticketed events presented during the 2025 season.
In a typical season, A2SF's outdoor programming at Top of the Park spaces brings over 80,000 people to the area from across the region during 21 nights of admission-free events held city wide. This includes over 90 unique musical performers and roaming artists, street arts and spectacle, art exhibitions, 19 movies by moonlight, 21 wellness/movement classes, culinary tasting events, and hands-on creative experiences. Additionally, A2SF often presents compelling experiences throughout the year such as the public art installation Monuments in Wheeler Park, or our Live Here Now event where we work with partners to support local neighborhoods to share A2SF resources and help plan day-long community arts celebrations in parks and public.
$835,022 spent$155,909 earned by the program100% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $835,022.
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.
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 $479k to $852k (+78%).
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: 2017 8% · 2018 12% · 2019 12% · 2020 32% · 2021 65% · 2022 19% · 2023 21% · 2024 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of Ann Arbor Summer Festival Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Michael Michelon
Executive Director
Board chair
Dr Lynette Findley
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $30k → $143k.
11 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 Summer Festival Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 22 of 24 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
Ann Arbor Summer Festival Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
37% 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 Ann Arbor Summer Festival Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 40% · 2019 39% · 2020 40% · 2021 46% · 2022 42% · 2023 42% — growing more concentrated.
“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
64% of Ann Arbor Summer Festival Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
100% of Ann Arbor Summer Festival Inc's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $309k 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.
Against its field
Ann Arbor Summer Festival Inc's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 12 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Ann Arbor Summer Festival Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $55k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$55k
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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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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Ann Arbor Summer Festival Inc: 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 Summer Festival Inc?
- Ann Arbor Summer Festival Inc (Michigan) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $922,243 to it, the largest being DUFFY FOUNDATION ($320,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Ann Arbor Summer Festival Inc have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $922,243 in grants to Ann Arbor Summer Festival Inc, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Ann Arbor Summer Festival Inc?
- DUFFY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $320,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Ann Arbor Summer Festival 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 24 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