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ART ROAD NONPROFIT CORPORATION

ART ROAD NONPROFIT CORPORATION (Michigan) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $520,000 to it, the largest being The Michigan Glass Project ($415,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2022
$40k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$520k
Net assets
$110k
1/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 62%
01What it does

What Art Road Nonprofit Corporation does

Mission

Art road nonprofit's mission is that children throughout southeastern michigan will have access to art instruction.

As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.

Program

Art class. Brings art back into detroit public schools community district where art has been eliminated due to budget cuts. Approximately 2,200 students (k-8th) attended art class through the year. Art class is held at the following times and locations: monday and wednesdays at charles wright academy of arts & science. Wednesdays at vernor elementary and grandport academy. Tuesdays and thursdays at charles l. Spain elementary and edison elementary. Fridays at ralph j. Bunche elementary.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($210k) Expenses 100 ($197k) Net assets 100 ($112k)2018 Revenue 104 ($218k) Expenses 102 ($201k) Net assets 116 ($130k)2019 Revenue 99 ($209k) Expenses 111 ($218k) Net assets 108 ($121k)2020 Revenue 119 ($249k) Expenses 142 ($279k) Net assets 80 ($90k)2021 Revenue 5 ($10k) Expenses 6 ($13k) Net assets 78 ($88k)2022 Revenue 19 ($40k) Expenses 9 ($18k) Net assets 98 ($110k)
201720182019202020212022
Revenue (19)Expenses (9)Net assets (98)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $112k to $132k (+17%).

$112k
$132k
$122k
$112k
$109k
$111k
201720182019202020212022
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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 15% · 2022 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$13k
’17
$18k
’18
−$9k
’19
−$30k
’20
−$3k
’21
$22k
’22
1.6
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.

201720182019202020212022
Listed117766
Joined···+0+0+0
No longer listed···010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $115k → $50k.

2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 ART ROAD NONPROFIT CORPORATION’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

ART ROAD NONPROFIT CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

80%
largest funder
95%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 96% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 67% · 2023 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

90% of ART ROAD NONPROFIT CORPORATION's grant income comes from Michigan funders.

MN
MI

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

’17
’18
’19
’22
’23
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

Organizations like ART ROAD NONPROFIT CORPORATION

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 5%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
83%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ART ROAD NONPROFIT CORPORATION: 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 ART ROAD NONPROFIT CORPORATION?
ART ROAD NONPROFIT CORPORATION (Michigan) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $520,000 to it, the largest being The Michigan Glass Project ($415,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ART ROAD NONPROFIT CORPORATION have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $520,000 in grants to ART ROAD NONPROFIT CORPORATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ART ROAD NONPROFIT CORPORATION?
The Michigan Glass Project is the largest funder on record, with $415,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ART ROAD NONPROFIT CORPORATION 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 7 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