Michigan · Nonprofit
Flint Institute of Music
Flint Institute of Music (Michigan) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,840,578 to it, the largest being CHARLES STEWART MOTT FOUNDATION ($8,107,505). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $18M
- Net assets
- $37M
What Flint Institute of Music does
Mission
Transforming lives through a lifelong continuum of world-class music, theatre, and dance.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The largest community school of the arts in michigan, serving nearly 4,000 students annually, fim flint school of performing arts provides a welcoming, nurturing environment where students of all ages and stages can discover their own unique path in their study of the performing arts. Home to more than a dozen performance ensembles, including the flint youth theatre, flint youth symphony orchestra, and flint youth ballet, fspa gives more than 200 recitals, concerts and performances throughout the year.
$3,692,678 spent$1,010,798 earned by the program26% of program spendingThe lone professional theatre for more than 70 miles, flint repertory theatre is dedicated to providing the city of flint and surrounding communities with highly imaginative, thought-provoking theatre that is challenging, entertaining and inspiring for all ages. Daring and insightful, flint rep's public performances, school matinees, and classes, serve audiences of all age demographics, with acting and theatre-making opportunities for adults.
$2,128,198 spent$63,391 earned by the program15% of program spendingCurrently in its 108th year of programming, fim flint symphony orchestra enchants audiences and brings a spectrum of masterworks to life through an annual 6-concert classical series, holiday pops, and music around town. One of the longest consistently performing orchestras in the nation, professional musicians from across north america travel to flint for the opportunity to perform with the fso.
$2,563,905 spent$297,854 earned by the program18% of program spendingWhiting auditorium - at the helm of the flint arts and culture landscape since opening in october 1967, the james h. Whiting auditorium is the premier entertainment venue of the greater flint community. Home of the flint symphony orchestra, this 2,043-seat theater annually hosts the whiting presents, featuring broadway hits, touring musical and dance groups, and guest artists from around the world. Capitol theatre - celebrating 40 years on the national register of historic places this january, flint's 97-year-old capitol theatre is a fully restored 1,560-seat theatre in the heart of downtown flint showcasing a diverse mix of emerging talent, community events, popular and classical music, comedy acts, film screenings, contemporary and modern dance, spoken word, and theater works that play to the strengths of its intimate auditorium and new flexible performance spaces.
$5,647,742 spent$2,272,879 earned by the program40% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $14,032,523.
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.
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 $32M to $40M (+24%).
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: 2019 15% · 2020 22% · 2021 22% · 2022 23% · 2023 34% · 2024 30% · 2025 34%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
59% of Flint Institute of Music’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Christopher Estes
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $2.4M → $3.4M.
7 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $38M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Flint Cultural Center Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Flint Institute of Music raised.
From the IRS filings of Flint Institute of Music’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 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
Flint Institute of Music leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 77% · 2019 36% · 2020 46% · 2021 45% · 2022 35% · 2023 72% — 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
65% of Flint Institute of Music's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
67% of Flint Institute of Music's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $245k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
Flint Institute of Music has grown faster than half of the 570 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding Flint Institute of Music receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $55k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$55k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Flint Institute of Music
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.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Flint Inst of Music Irrev Endowment · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Flint Institute of Music: 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 Flint Institute of Music?
- Flint Institute of Music (Michigan) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,840,578 to it, the largest being CHARLES STEWART MOTT FOUNDATION ($8,107,505). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Flint Institute of Music have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $17,840,578 in grants to Flint Institute of Music, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Flint Institute of Music?
- CHARLES STEWART MOTT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $8,107,505 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Flint Institute of Music 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 46 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