Michigan · Nonprofit
CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY
CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY (Michigan) receives grants from 120 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,358,057 to it, the largest being THE GILBERT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($7,378,852). 79 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $100M
- Funders on record
- 120
- Grants received
- $34M
- Net assets
- $421M
What Cranbrook Educational Community does
Mission
The Cranbrook Educational Community provides extraordinary education, encourages creativity and innovation, and values learners of all ages and backgrounds. Cranbrook develops people who will live with purpose and integrity, create with passion, explore with curiosity, and strive for excellence.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Cranbrook schools are independent day and boarding schools that provide students with a challenging and comprehensive college preparatory education. We motivate students from diverse backgrounds to strive for intellectual, creative, and physical excellence, to develop a deep appreciation for the arts and different cultures, and to employ the technical tools of our modern age. Our schools seek to instill in students a strong sense of personal and social responsibility, the ability to think critically, and the competence to communicate and contribute in an increasingly global community. Fall 2024 enrollment was 1,661 students, 818 students were grades 9th thru 12th, of those 257 were boarding students. Lower school pre-k thru 5th grade, 507 students, middle school grades 6th thru 8th were 336 students.
$51,156,210 spentof which $2,752,479 as grants$62,110,321 earned by the program75% of program spendingCranbrook academy of art is an independent graduate degree-granting institution offering an intense studio-based experience where artists-in-residence mentor students in art, architecture and design to creatively influence contemporary culture. Fall enrollment was 112 students. Cranbrook art museum actively engages the viewer to discover relevant, transformative, and significant moments in modern and contemporary art, architecture, and design. We bring together people from detroit and our region, the cranbrook community, and society at large to provoke new ideas. We achieve this at Cranbrook Educational Community, a national historic landmark, where the pursuit of knowledge and innovation is paramount. The art museum membership consists of 5,986 members.
$11,456,473 spentof which $118,794 as grants$3,917,739 earned by the program17% of program spendingThe cranbrook institute of science mission is to advance scientific literacy, nurture curiosity and encourage advocacy for the natural and cultural worlds in which we live. The science museum membership consists of 1,560 members.
$3,940,836 spent$1,114,137 earned by the program6% of program spendingThe cranbrook center for collections and research reveals the cranbrook story and offers intellectual and experiential engagement with its legacy. By sustaining and interpreting the community's unparalleled landscape, architecture, collections, and archives, the center provides memorable educational experiences and meaningful research opportunities for regional, national, and international audiences.
$1,223,899 spent$340,049 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $67,777,418.
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 2020 to 2021, from $429M to $537M (+25%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 1% · 2022 1% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
16% of CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% 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.
Board chair
Michael E Berger
Chair - trustee
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 56 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $8.5M.
25 of 120 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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: $3.0M from 16 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan). These are real filings, and they are not money CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY raised.
From the IRS filings of CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 120 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
CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
29% 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 CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 32% · 2019 43% · 2020 20% · 2021 49% · 2022 17% · 2023 55% — 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
56% of CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
89% of CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL 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. $9.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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
CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY's funding base is broadening — from 17 funders to 56 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.7M on record.
- Department of Education$6.2M
- National Endowment for the Arts$275k
- National Archives and Records Administration$131k
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.
Organizations like CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY
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
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Ellen F Price Charitable Remainder Unitrust Dtd 101207 · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY?
- CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY (Michigan) receives grants from 120 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,358,057 to it, the largest being THE GILBERT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($7,378,852). 79 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY have?
- IRS filings report 120 organizations giving $34,358,057 in grants to CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY, 79 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY?
- THE GILBERT FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,378,852 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL 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.
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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 120 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