Michigan · Nonprofit
D CIPHER
D CIPHER (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $150,000 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($75,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $107k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $150k
- Net assets
- $15k
What D Cipher does
Mission
D.Cipher is a music mastermind collective and organization that serves Detroits community of musicians through shared learning, resources, and collaboration, and uplifts and celebrates Detroits musical legacy and emerging musical talent by bringing live music directly to Detroit residents. D.Cipher provides musicians with the resources and information they need to thrive and grow their careers in Detroit, while regularly connecting Detroits broader community to live music in engaging ways through hosting public live music events and public professional development workshops for musicians. All of our programming is held throughout Detroit, Michigan, and free to the public.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
D.Cipher Live music concerts: Through these series of concerts, we activate under utilized spaces and cultural dead zones with live music. These concert series activations connects the general public to live music in unique and engaging ways and provides much needed gig opportunities for local musicians. In FY2024, we held 20 public activations that exposed an estimated 20,000 citizens to live music, while providing opportunity and resources to an estimated 60 musicians.
$62,597 spent68% of program spendingCapacity Building: During FY2023, we were able to provide stipends to our immediate team of 3 who facilities and all organizational programming, development, outreach, and strategy. We were also able to bring on two support people to help with our audio/visual needs for our community music programs and capture content to document our programming throughout the year. We captured/created an estimated 500+ pieces of audio, photo, and video content, available for musicians to use and leverage for future opportunities. We were also able to purchase some key music equipment to enhance our program offerings for the musicians we work with.
$29,153 spentof which $75,000 as grants32% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $91,750.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $257 to $15k (+5760%).
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.
70% of D CIPHER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Dominique Campbell
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $50k → $40k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 D CIPHER’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
D CIPHER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% 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
50% 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 D CIPHER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 63% — 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
50% of D CIPHER's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $75k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $75k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
D CIPHER runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like D CIPHER
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
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for D CIPHER: 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 D CIPHER?
- D CIPHER (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $150,000 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($75,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does D CIPHER have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $150,000 in grants to D CIPHER, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of D CIPHER?
- WK Kellogg Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like D CIPHER 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 3 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