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EQUALITY MICHIGAN ACTION NETWORK

EQUALITY MICHIGAN ACTION NETWORK (Michigan) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,385,000 to it, the largest being MICHIGAN CIVIC ACTION FUND ($1,114,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.2M
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$2.4M
Net assets
$485k
5/11 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Equality Michigan Action Network does

Mission

To provide policy expertise, political acumen, and broad-based relationships across the political spectrum to propel the mission, which is to achieve full equality and respect for all michgan residents, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. To achieve full equality and respect for all michigan residents, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.

    $982,459 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $982,459.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($179k) Expenses 100 ($104k) Net assets 100 ($97k)2021 Revenue 14 ($26k) Expenses 41 ($43k) Net assets 82 ($80k)2022 Revenue 595 ($1.1M) Expenses 895 ($931k) Net assets 219 ($213k)2023 Revenue 187 ($336k) Expenses 174 ($181k) Net assets 378 ($368k)2024 Revenue 674 ($1.2M) Expenses 1048 ($1.1M) Net assets 499 ($485k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (674)Expenses (1048)Net assets (499)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 2021 to 2022, from $82k to $242k (+196%).

$108k
$82k
$242k
$386k
$505k
20202021202220232024
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of EQUALITY MICHIGAN ACTION NETWORK’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,024 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$75k
’20
−$17k
’21
$133k
’22
$155k
’23
$117k
’24
5.5
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.

Board chair

Courtney Simmons

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

202220232024
Listed676
Joined·+2+0
No longer listed·11
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $109k → $564k.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
$380k
$100k
$98k
$85k
funders
1
1
5
4
7
2

2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 ACTION NETWORK’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

EQUALITY MICHIGAN ACTION NETWORK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

100% 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 ACTION NETWORK.

47%
largest funder
72%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 73% · 2023 64% — 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

40% of EQUALITY MICHIGAN ACTION NETWORK's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y

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

58% of EQUALITY MICHIGAN ACTION NETWORK's grant income comes from Michigan funders.

MI
MA
OR
CA
DC

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

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

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $325k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

EQUALITY MICHIGAN ACTION NETWORK has grown faster than three-quarters of the 978 civil rights nonprofits its size.

Operating margin10% · above the median
Months of reserve5.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)61% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 978 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like EQUALITY MICHIGAN ACTION NETWORK

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 6%Fundraising 4%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Equality Michigan · exempt

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EQUALITY MICHIGAN ACTION NETWORK: 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 EQUALITY MICHIGAN ACTION NETWORK?
EQUALITY MICHIGAN ACTION NETWORK (Michigan) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,385,000 to it, the largest being MICHIGAN CIVIC ACTION FUND ($1,114,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does EQUALITY MICHIGAN ACTION NETWORK have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $2,385,000 in grants to EQUALITY MICHIGAN ACTION NETWORK, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of EQUALITY MICHIGAN ACTION NETWORK?
MICHIGAN CIVIC ACTION FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,114,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like EQUALITY MICHIGAN ACTION NETWORK 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 11 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