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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.

Revenue FY2025
$636k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$400
Net assets
$-298919
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Friends of the Felt Estate does

Mission

To preserve and maintain the felt mansion in holland, michigan and to educate the public on the history of the felt estate.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Preserve history through preservation of the estate; protect the environment with responsible use of the natural and build environments; and educate through tours, classes, field trips, and seminars.

    $511,705 spent$585,374 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $511,705.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($153k) Expenses 100 ($144k) Net assets 100 ($23k)2018 Revenue 86 ($131k) Expenses 94 ($135k) Net assets 81 ($18k)2019 Revenue 193 ($295k) Expenses 141 ($203k) Net assets 491 ($111k)2020 Revenue 308 ($473k) Expenses 350 ($503k) Net assets 358 ($81k)2021 Revenue 330 ($507k) Expenses 338 ($485k) Net assets 456 ($103k)2022 Revenue 422 ($648k) Expenses 424 ($608k) Net assets 633 ($143k)2023 Revenue 497 ($763k) Expenses 484 ($695k) Net assets 934 ($211k)2024 Revenue 402 ($617k) Expenses 438 ($629k) Net assets -116 ($-26115)2025 Revenue 414 ($636k) Expenses 447 ($642k) Net assets -1324 ($-298919)
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Revenue (414)Expenses (447)Net assets (-1324)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 2018 to 2019, from $36k to $125k (+247%).

$45k
$36k
$125k
$83k
$120k
$147k
$228k
$245k
$263k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$10k
’17
−$4k
’18
$93k
’19
−$30k
’20
$22k
’21
$40k
’22
$68k
’23
−$12k
’24
−$6k
’25
4.9
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.

Chief executive

Elizabeth Mcewen

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed333334457
Joined·+0+2+0+0+3+0+1+4
No longer listed·02002002
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
total
funders
1

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.

MI

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FRIENDS OF THE FELT ESTATE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve4.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)19% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like FRIENDS OF THE FELT ESTATE

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 10%Fundraising 3%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MI

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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 1 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing