Michigan · Nonprofit
CREATIVE ARTS REPERTOIRE ENSEMBLE
CREATIVE ARTS REPERTOIRE ENSEMBLE (Michigan) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,879 to it, the largest being THE WEGE FOUNDATION ($5,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $209k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $14k
- Net assets
- $23k
What Creative Arts Repertoire Ensemble does
Mission
To promote dance in west michigan
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The dance studio promotes dancing by providing various dance classes for students at reduced rates. Dancers for the performance company are able to improve their dancing through their ongoing dance instruction. And the students get the opportunity to try out for the current years performances.
$171,246 spent$121,178 earned by the program81% of program spendingThe performance company presented three ballets in 2023/2024. Students from area schools are given the opportunity to see each program for free.
$39,506 spent$33,325 earned by the program19% of program spendingOther program related services
$16,521 earned by the program
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $210,752.
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 2019 to 2020, from $47k to $65k (+38%).
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: 2019 5% · 2020 16% · 2021 14% · 2022 8% · 2023 8% · 2024 5% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
17% of CREATIVE ARTS REPERTOIRE ENSEMBLE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $8k → $1k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 CREATIVE ARTS REPERTOIRE ENSEMBLE’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
CREATIVE ARTS REPERTOIRE ENSEMBLE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 60% · 2021 100% · 2022 86% · 2023 89% — 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
84% of CREATIVE ARTS REPERTOIRE ENSEMBLE's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $679 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.
Against its field
CREATIVE ARTS REPERTOIRE ENSEMBLE receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $14k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CREATIVE ARTS REPERTOIRE ENSEMBLE
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 CREATIVE ARTS REPERTOIRE ENSEMBLE: 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 CREATIVE ARTS REPERTOIRE ENSEMBLE?
- CREATIVE ARTS REPERTOIRE ENSEMBLE (Michigan) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,879 to it, the largest being THE WEGE FOUNDATION ($5,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CREATIVE ARTS REPERTOIRE ENSEMBLE have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $13,879 in grants to CREATIVE ARTS REPERTOIRE ENSEMBLE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CREATIVE ARTS REPERTOIRE ENSEMBLE?
- THE WEGE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CREATIVE ARTS REPERTOIRE ENSEMBLE 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 5 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