Michigan · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF THE FELT ESTATE
FRIENDS OF THE FELT ESTATE (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $400 to it, the largest being EVENTS FOR GOOD ($400). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FRIENDS OF THE FELT ESTATE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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.
- Pat & Herb Eldean Family Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Jim and Ginger Jurries Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Edward H & Diana H Marsilje Charitable Foundationlocalportfolio match
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.
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: 2017 31% · 2018 32% · 2019 14% · 2020 9% · 2021 11% · 2022 12% · 2023 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
9% of FRIENDS OF THE FELT ESTATE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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 FRIENDS OF THE FELT ESTATE’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.
Where its funders are
100% of FRIENDS OF THE FELT ESTATE'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.
- Pat & Herb Eldean Family Foundationlocalportfolio matchMI · funds 20 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Jim and Ginger Jurries Foundationlocalportfolio matchMI · funds 17 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Edward H & Diana H Marsilje Charitable Foundationlocalportfolio matchMI · funds 14 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- McKelvey Family Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 2 organizations that share your funders
- Jeffris Family Foundation Ltdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Americana Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Pyle Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Merkley Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Roger and Sarah Bancroft Clark Privateportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Frankenmuth Community Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Michigan Humanities Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hp Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 FRIENDS OF THE FELT ESTATE
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDS OF THE FELT ESTATE: 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 FRIENDS OF THE FELT ESTATE?
- FRIENDS OF THE FELT ESTATE (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $400 to it, the largest being EVENTS FOR GOOD ($400). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE FELT ESTATE have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $400 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE FELT ESTATE.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE FELT ESTATE?
- EVENTS FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE FELT ESTATE 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 1funders 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