Michigan · Nonprofit
CULTURE LAB DETROIT
CULTURE LAB DETROIT (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $525,000 to it, the largest being THE KRESGE FOUNDATION ($325,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $21k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $525k
- Net assets
- $0
What Culture Lab Detroit does
Mission
Culture Lab Detroit is a non-profit organization that engages world-class artists, designers, and architects in a series of thoughtful discussions that stimulate new relationships, artistic opportunities and deeper connections between the detroit community and the international community. Additionally, the program hosts a series of workshops, site visits, classes, tours, panel discussions and salon dinners in hopes of inspiring permanent and transformative projects of design, art, architecture, and landscape architecture, furthering the cultural transformation of detroit.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
To provide a platform for artists, designers, and architects to come together and engage in thoughtful discussions and relationships to form artistic opportunities and deeper connections between the detroit community and the international community.for fy 2021 and in response to the covid-19 pandemic, Culture Lab Detroit suspended formal programming and moved to a virtual format. Culture Lab Detroit leadership used the time to survey advisors and collaborators as to needs, challenges and opportunities. Culture Lab Detroit leadership inventoried resources and programs designed to support artists' financial and emotional wellbeing during the pandemic, and shared those resources with advisors and collaborators.Culture Lab Detroit leadership also worked with various educational and philanthropic initiatives in detroit's cultural community to help them define and develop collaborative programming in anticipation of a safe and gradual re-opening.in addition, Culture Lab Detroit suspended formal fundraising activities with its philanthropic partners and relied on individual contributions to support the virtual programming it delivered.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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 2021 to 2022, from $89 to $88k (+98726%).
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: 2023 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $150k → $88k.
From the IRS filings of CULTURE LAB DETROIT’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
CULTURE LAB DETROIT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% 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: 2017 67% · 2018 50% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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
62% of CULTURE LAB DETROIT's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Government funding CULTURE LAB DETROIT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $150k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$150k
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 CULTURE LAB DETROIT
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.
Public support
10%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CULTURE LAB DETROIT: 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 CULTURE LAB DETROIT?
- CULTURE LAB DETROIT (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $525,000 to it, the largest being THE KRESGE FOUNDATION ($325,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CULTURE LAB DETROIT have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $525,000 in grants to CULTURE LAB DETROIT, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CULTURE LAB DETROIT?
- THE KRESGE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $325,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CULTURE LAB DETROIT 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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