Michigan · Nonprofit
Fems for Democracy
Fems for Democracy (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $110,000 to it, the largest being MICHIGAN CIVIC ACTION FUND ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Fems for Democracy's revenue fell 97% between 2022 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,039 civil rights nonprofits under $100k, 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.
- Progress Michigan Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Michigan Civic Education Fundshared fundersportfolio match
- Organize Actionshared fundersportfolio match
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.
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.
92% of Fems for Democracy’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Fems for Democracy’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
Fems for Democracy leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% 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
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 Fems for Democracy.
“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
100% of Fems for Democracy's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
- Progress Michigan Incshared fundersportfolio matchMI · backs 13 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Michigan Civic Education Fundshared fundersportfolio matchMI · backs 8 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Organize Actionshared fundersportfolio matchCA · backs 7 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Michigan Energy Firstportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Michigan Voicesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Citizens for Energizing Michigan's Economyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Black Voters Matter Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Justfundusportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Article IVportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Protect Democracy Unitedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- All Hands on Deck Network Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Economic Justice Alliance of Michiganshared fundersMI · backs 3 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 Fems for Democracy
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Fems for Democracy: 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 Fems for Democracy?
- Fems for Democracy (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $110,000 to it, the largest being MICHIGAN CIVIC ACTION FUND ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Fems for Democracy have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $110,000 in grants to Fems for Democracy.
- Who is the largest funder of Fems for Democracy?
- MICHIGAN CIVIC ACTION FUND is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Fems for Democracy 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 2funders 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