Michigan · Nonprofit
CITIZENS FOR A VIBRANT COMMUNITY
CITIZENS FOR A VIBRANT COMMUNITY (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,500 to it, the largest being JAMES C ACHESON FOUNDATION ($23,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CITIZENS FOR A VIBRANT COMMUNITY's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,351 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Community Foundation of St Clair Countylocalportfolio match
- First Federal of Northern Michigan Legacy Foundationportfolio match
- Wayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.
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.
29% of CITIZENS FOR A VIBRANT COMMUNITY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (77% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1k → $10k.
1 of 2 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 CITIZENS FOR A VIBRANT COMMUNITY’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
CITIZENS FOR A VIBRANT COMMUNITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of CITIZENS FOR A VIBRANT COMMUNITY's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Community Foundation of St Clair Countylocalportfolio matchMI · funds 139 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- First Federal of Northern Michigan Legacy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ann Arbor Sparkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Lansing Destination Development Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts Council of Greater Lansingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Arts Federation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Manistee County Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pocono Mountains Vacation Bureau Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Foundation of Greater Flintportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Flint Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Chelsea Health and Wellness Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like CITIZENS FOR A VIBRANT COMMUNITY
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
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 CITIZENS FOR A VIBRANT COMMUNITY: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CITIZENS FOR A VIBRANT COMMUNITY?
- CITIZENS FOR A VIBRANT COMMUNITY (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,500 to it, the largest being JAMES C ACHESON FOUNDATION ($23,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CITIZENS FOR A VIBRANT COMMUNITY have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $30,500 in grants to CITIZENS FOR A VIBRANT COMMUNITY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CITIZENS FOR A VIBRANT COMMUNITY?
- JAMES C ACHESON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $23,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CITIZENS FOR A VIBRANT COMMUNITY 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing