Michigan · Nonprofit
CREATIVE MANY MICHIGAN INC
CREATIVE MANY MICHIGAN INC (Michigan) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,985,552 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($1,150,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2020
- $6k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $0
What Creative Many Michigan Inc does
Mission
Creative many michigan is the statewide organization advancing creative industries in michigan. Our mission is to "develop creative people, creative places, and the creative economy for a strong and resilient michigan." our portfolio of work includes research, advocacy, and public policy, professional practice development, investment, and media communications. We research and advocate to frame the creative industries and arts education as priorities for michigan, and integral to thriving communities. We empower and invest in creative people - michigan's creative many - the full spectrum of artists, makers, designers, arts and cultural organizations, art educators, creative entrepeneurs and businesses who comprise michigan's creative industries. We connect them with resources, neworks, funding, and opportunities to develop their creative practice. A powerful force for michigan, creative people stimulate our culture, communities and economy. Creative many is the designated michigan repre
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990.
Program
In fy 19-20, creative many michigan was discontinued.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $1.8M to $36k (−98%).
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 6% · 2018 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 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
2017 → 2018: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $1.0M → $937k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 MANY MICHIGAN INC’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 MANY MICHIGAN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 98%; 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: 2017 67% · 2018 48% — 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.
Where its funders are
CREATIVE MANY MICHIGAN INC draws 64% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26k 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.
Organizations like CREATIVE MANY MICHIGAN INC
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
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 MANY MICHIGAN INC: 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 MANY MICHIGAN INC?
- CREATIVE MANY MICHIGAN INC (Michigan) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,985,552 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($1,150,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CREATIVE MANY MICHIGAN INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $1,985,552 in grants to CREATIVE MANY MICHIGAN INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CREATIVE MANY MICHIGAN INC?
- THE FORD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CREATIVE MANY MICHIGAN INC 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 FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), and the filings of 7 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