Michigan · Nonprofit
EQUALITY MICHIGAN
EQUALITY MICHIGAN (Michigan) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,898,635 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ($998,439). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
EQUALITY MICHIGAN is better cushioned than half of the 976 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 976 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Groundswell Fundshared funders
- Equality Federationportfolio match
- Freedom for All Americans Education Fundportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.
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: 2018 35% · 2019 37% · 2020 28% · 2021 43% · 2022 9% · 2023 24% · 2024 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of EQUALITY MICHIGAN’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $50k → $827k.
10 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 EQUALITY MICHIGAN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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
EQUALITY MICHIGAN has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
91% 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 EQUALITY MICHIGAN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 100% · 2019 57% · 2020 58% · 2021 86% · 2022 42% · 2023 24% — 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
50% of EQUALITY MICHIGAN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
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
52% of EQUALITY MICHIGAN'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 $1.9M that is directly attributable, 55% of it comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 32 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Groundswell Fundshared fundersCA · backs 64 organizations that share your funders
- Equality Federationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Freedom for All Americans Education Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Lgbtq Task Forceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Human Rights Campaign Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Equality Illinois Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Leonard Litz Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Loveloud Foundation % Tribeca Business Mgmtportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Unity Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way for Southeastern Michiganshared funderslocalMI · backs 73 organizations that share your funders · funds 574 organizations near you
- Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr Fundshared fundersCA · backs 57 organizations that share your funders
- Proteus Fund Incshared fundersMA · backs 104 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like EQUALITY MICHIGAN
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Equality Michigan Action Network · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EQUALITY MICHIGAN: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds EQUALITY MICHIGAN?
- EQUALITY MICHIGAN (Michigan) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,898,635 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ($998,439). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does EQUALITY MICHIGAN have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $3,898,635 in grants to EQUALITY MICHIGAN, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EQUALITY MICHIGAN?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN is the largest funder on record, with $998,439 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EQUALITY MICHIGAN 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 32funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing