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EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION

EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 101 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,982,427 to it, the largest being TOYOTA USA FOUNDATION ($5,340,000). 59 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$21M
Funders on record
101
Grants received
$18M
Net assets
$128M
59/101 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 19%
01What it does

What Eastern Michigan University Foundation does

Mission

The Eastern Michigan University Foundation, through collaborative relationships with individuals, corporations, foundations and other organizations, creates opportunities that will provide additional support to the students, programs, services and educational community of eastern michigan university. The Eastern Michigan University Foundation will achieve its mission through image enhancement, effective asset management, entrepreneurial efforts and development activities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Gift allocation to emu-the foundation receives gifts on behalf of emu. Gifts designated as expendable scholarships & program services are collected by the foundation and directly disbursed to emu. All other gifts are endowed/invested for future disbursement.

    $12,613,356 spentof which $12,613,356 as grants$2,012,797 earned by the program
    82% of program spending
  2. Endowed scholarships and program services spending allocated to emu-spending from the scholarship & program service endowments are distributed to eastern michigan university.

    $2,733,304 spentof which $2,733,304 as grants
    18% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $15,346,660.

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 ($9.7M) Expenses 100 ($9.2M) Net assets 100 ($76M)2018 Revenue 119 ($11M) Expenses 104 ($9.6M) Net assets 104 ($80M)2019 Revenue 129 ($13M) Expenses 135 ($12M) Net assets 105 ($80M)2020 Revenue 149 ($14M) Expenses 134 ($12M) Net assets 106 ($81M)2021 Revenue 183 ($18M) Expenses 148 ($14M) Net assets 130 ($99M)2022 Revenue 339 ($33M) Expenses 181 ($17M) Net assets 127 ($97M)2023 Revenue 208 ($20M) Expenses 190 ($18M) Net assets 137 ($105M)2024 Revenue 302 ($29M) Expenses 253 ($23M) Net assets 157 ($120M)2025 Revenue 216 ($21M) Expenses 220 ($20M) Net assets 168 ($128M)
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Revenue (216)Expenses (220)Net assets (168)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 2020 to 2021, from $82M to $101M (+23%).

$78M
$86M
$81M
$82M
$101M
$99M
$106M
$124M
$130M
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

71% of EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,254 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$487k
’17
$1.9M
’18
$110k
’19
$2.1M
’20
$4.1M
’21
$16M
’22
$2.7M
’23
$5.9M
’24
$724k
’25
1.0
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

Mia Milton

Exec dir alumni engagement

Board chair

Milton Mack

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed313135333633383638
Joined·+7+8+1+7+1+9+7+7
No longer listed·74344495
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 42 funders, grant income rose $386k → $3.7M.

27 of 101 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 101 funders by total. 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

EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

41% 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 EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION.

30%
largest funder
49%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 18% · 2018 33% · 2019 16% · 2020 18% · 2021 19% · 2022 51% · 2023 48% — 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.

How long its funders stay

45% of EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 22 states in all.

MN
IL
MI
NY
OR
NV
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CO
MO
KY
DE
AZ
AR
NC
DC
TX
FL

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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

EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve1.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 12%Fundraising 12%

Governance

28
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

86%

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

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Planned Real Estate Corp · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION?
EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 101 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,982,427 to it, the largest being TOYOTA USA FOUNDATION ($5,340,000). 59 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 101 organizations giving $17,982,427 in grants to EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION, 59 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION?
TOYOTA USA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,340,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 101 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing