Michigan · Nonprofit
Blackbird Arts
Blackbird Arts (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,500 to it, the largest being ALINE UNDERHILL ORTEN FOUNDATION INC ($1,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2017
- $121k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $-10080
What Blackbird Arts does
Mission
Blackbird Arts is a creative force for inclusive arts education and innovative community involvement.
As stated on its FY2017 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Blackbird Arts is an inclusive arts education studio focused on community engagement through the arts. We have a year-round arts program for children, families, and adults with the following objectives: strengthening the creative opportunities for all individualsregardless of ability, location or economic status bringing professional teaching artists to community centers, nursing centers, parks, and other nontraditional settings creating collaborative public art designed and created by the community, for the community. Our studio is housed within a 3500 square foot studio space, includes a ceramics studio with onsite kiln, a screenprinting studio, letterpress and book arts program, exhibition space and arts classroom. Blackbird Arts offers studio classes for children as young as two years with a parent, through adults. These programs are led by professional, degreed teaching artistsranging from ceramic artists and metalsmiths, to printmakers and painters. Blackbird Arts program served over 4,100 hands-on art opportunities in 2017. Blackbird Arts provided programs in 11 schools elementary, middle and high school. We average 20 classes weekly. Blackbird Arts builds the capacity for…
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Blackbird Arts’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.
Where its funders are
Blackbird Arts draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
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Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Blackbird Arts?
- Blackbird Arts (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,500 to it, the largest being ALINE UNDERHILL ORTEN FOUNDATION INC ($1,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Blackbird Arts have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,500 in grants to Blackbird Arts.
- Who is the largest funder of Blackbird Arts?
- ALINE UNDERHILL ORTEN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Blackbird Arts 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 FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 1 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