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COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS

COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS (Michigan) receives grants from 110 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,928,538 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($11,808,500). 83 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$5.8M
Funders on record
110
Grants received
$32M
Net assets
$42M
83/110 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 94%
01What it does

What Council of Michigan Foundations does

Mission

To lead, strengthen and support michigan's community of philanthropy.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. As a membership association of foundations & corporate giving programs, cmf provides resources to members through its website, seminars, conferences and publications. Cmf is actively involved in advocacy on behalf of foundations & corporate giving programs regarding legislative & regulatory issues that affect charitable giving & the nonprofit sector.

    $3,643,547 spentof which $129,174 as grants$2,363,771 earned by the program
    64% of program spending

  2. Cmf has an office in lansing that works directly with the governor of michigan. The office of foundation liaison was established in 2003 to manage strategic partnerships between foundations and state government to improve the lives of michigan citizens. Funded by foundations, the office of three staff is located in lansing with direct access to the governor.

    $824,520 spent
    15% of program spending

  3. The statewide equity fund is a cmf member-driven fund to empower michigan philanthropy to strategically pool resources toward equitable systemic change.

    $516,929 spentof which $7,500 as grants
    9% of program spending

  4. Cmf, in partnership with several members, has developed a two-year fellowship program to introduce recent diverse college graduates to the field of philanthropy, with the long-term goal of increasing the diversity of foundation staff. Under this program, fellows work approximately four days per week with member foundations and one day per week with cmf.

    $682,791 spent
    12% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,667,787.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($7.7M) Expenses 100 ($4.7M) Net assets 100 ($26M)2018 Revenue 88 ($6.8M) Expenses 105 ($4.9M) Net assets 116 ($30M)2019 Revenue 78 ($6.0M) Expenses 146 ($6.8M) Net assets 112 ($29M)2020 Revenue 108 ($8.3M) Expenses 170 ($7.9M) Net assets 108 ($28M)2021 Revenue 71 ($5.4M) Expenses 160 ($7.5M) Net assets 131 ($34M)2022 Revenue 100 ($7.7M) Expenses 166 ($7.8M) Net assets 147 ($39M)2023 Revenue 75 ($5.8M) Expenses 167 ($7.8M) Net assets 139 ($37M)2024 Revenue 169 ($13M) Expenses 169 ($7.9M) Net assets 163 ($43M)2025 Revenue 76 ($5.8M) Expenses 144 ($6.7M) Net assets 160 ($42M)
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Revenue (76)Expenses (144)Net assets (160)Peer revenue range

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 $30M to $37M (+23%).

$28M
$33M
$31M
$30M
$37M
$40M
$38M
$44M
$44M
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

23% of COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,053 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$3.0M
’17
$1.9M
’18
−$775k
’19
$382k
’20
−$2.0M
’21
−$52k
’22
−$2.0M
’23
$5.2M
’24
−$891k
’25
12
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

Kyle Caldwell

President/CEO

Board chair

Dave Mengebier

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed242324242830343434
Joined·+6+10+3+10+5+5+7+7
No longer listed·79363177
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 35 funders to 61 funders, grant income rose $3.1M → $4.3M.

Funder
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'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
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'25*
total
funders
35
46
48
58
57
59
61
58
26

21 of 110 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $3.2M from 8 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Skillman Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS raised.

From the IRS filings of COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 110 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

COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

37%
largest funder
68%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 56% · 2019 46% · 2020 35% · 2021 29% · 2022 35% · 2023 29% — diversifying over time.

“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

63% of COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

98% of COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS's grant income comes from Michigan funders.

IL
WI
MI
NY
OH
CO
DC
FL

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

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’22
’23
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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

Against its field

COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−15% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve12.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS

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

Michigan Founders Fund89%Michigan Chamber Foundation87%The Michigan Women's Foundation87%Michigan Health Endowment Fund86%Community Foundation of Greater Flint86%Community Foundation for Muskegon County86%Michigan Credit Union Foundation86%Michigan Economic Development Foundation85%

Nationally

Michigan Founders Fund89%Michigan Chamber Foundation87%The Michigan Women's Foundation87%Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc86%Michigan Health Endowment Fund86%Community Foundation of Greater Flint86%Community Foundation for Muskegon County86%Michigan Credit Union Foundation86%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 13%Fundraising 2%

Governance

23
board members
96%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

41%

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

  • Council of Michigan Foundations Supporting Organization · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS: 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 COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS?
COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS (Michigan) receives grants from 110 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,928,538 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($11,808,500). 83 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS have?
IRS filings report 110 organizations giving $31,928,538 in grants to COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS, 83 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS?
WK Kellogg Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $11,808,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 110 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing