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CULTURESOURCE

CULTURESOURCE (Michigan) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,079,611 to it, the largest being THE KRESGE FOUNDATION ($6,014,900). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$3.1M
Funders on record
23
Grants received
$13M
Net assets
$5.3M
14/23 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 83%
01What it does

What Culturesource does

Mission

Culturesource advances creative and cultural expression in southeast michigan.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Grantmaking: Through Grantmaking and Fiscal Sponsorship initiatives, CultureSource collaborates with funding partners and artistic projects to thoughtfully and expediently provide resources to the creative people and cultural organizations that support our vision of seeing Southeast Michigan flourish.

    $3,609,186 spentof which $3,188,361 as grants$104,024 earned by the program
    68% of program spending
  2. Convening:CultureSources primary service is convening the cultural sector of Southeast Michigan. Our regular gatherings for shared learning, leadership development, and networking to bring people, organizations, and ideas together to build skills and collaboration toward realizing our vision and supporting adaptive change in our field.

    $1,139,593 spentof which $220,115 as grants$60,080 earned by the program
    21% of program spending
  3. Changemaking: CultureSource supports arts and culture leaders and organizations in developing mindsets and strategies needed to navigate change, complexity, and uncertainty. In this area of our work, we facilitate learning labs, workshops on collaboration and innovation, and strategic reconsideration of pathways through experimentation and adaptive capacities skill-building.

    $466,554 spentof which $29,500 as grants$1,750 earned by the program
    9% of program spending
  4. Research: CultureSource regularly engages in practices of research, knowledge generation, and insight sharing to grow the arts and culture sectors capacity for great work. These practices also allow us to make data-driven decisions regarding how to be of the best and hightest use to the leaders, artists, organizations, philanthropists and policymakers who rely on us.

    $128,632 spent
    2% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,343,965.

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 ($590k) Expenses 100 ($624k) Net assets 100 ($724k)2018 Revenue 175 ($1.0M) Expenses 116 ($721k) Net assets 143 ($1.0M)2019 Revenue 137 ($810k) Expenses 141 ($882k) Net assets 133 ($961k)2020 Revenue 262 ($1.5M) Expenses 176 ($1.1M) Net assets 194 ($1.4M)2021 Revenue 479 ($2.8M) Expenses 231 ($1.4M) Net assets 386 ($2.8M)2022 Revenue 629 ($3.7M) Expenses 458 ($2.9M) Net assets 524 ($3.8M)2023 Revenue 1036 ($6.1M) Expenses 398 ($2.5M) Net assets 1026 ($7.4M)2024 Revenue 529 ($3.1M) Expenses 837 ($5.2M) Net assets 736 ($5.3M)
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Revenue (529)Expenses (837)Net assets (736)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 2022 to 2023, from $4.1M to $7.6M (+85%).

$1.5M
$1.8M
$1.4M
$1.8M
$3.0M
$4.1M
$7.6M
$5.8M
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 5% · 2018 3% · 2019 5% · 2021 3% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

97% of CULTURESOURCE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$34k
’17
$310k
’18
−$72k
’19
$445k
’20
$1.4M
’21
$860k
’22
$3.6M
’23
−$2.1M
’24
5.9
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

Omari Rush

Executive Director

Board chair

Brent Ott

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed1916211820201715
Joined·+1+6+0+4+3+0+0
No longer listed·4132332
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $490k → $2.3M.

3 of 23 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: $733k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan). These are real filings, and they are not money CULTURESOURCE raised.

From the IRS filings of CULTURESOURCE’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

CULTURESOURCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% 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

46%
largest funder
68%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 56% · 2019 64% · 2020 25% · 2021 38% · 2022 56% · 2023 39% — 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

54% of CULTURESOURCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

67% of CULTURESOURCE's grant income comes from Michigan funders.

MN
IL
MI
NY
FL

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

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’21
’22
’23
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $799k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

CULTURESOURCE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−67% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve5.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)27% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 8%Fundraising 3%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CULTURESOURCE: 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 CULTURESOURCE?
CULTURESOURCE (Michigan) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,079,611 to it, the largest being THE KRESGE FOUNDATION ($6,014,900). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CULTURESOURCE have?
IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $13,079,611 in grants to CULTURESOURCE, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CULTURESOURCE?
THE KRESGE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,014,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CULTURESOURCE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 23 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