Michigan · Nonprofit
HAPPYPLACE PRODUCTIONS
HAPPYPLACE PRODUCTIONS (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being KURT L AND RENEE M DARROW FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
HAPPYPLACE PRODUCTIONS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,650 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,650 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, 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.
- United Way of Monroelenawee Counties Incshared funderslocal
- Piece by Piece Productions Incportfolio match
- Fractured Atlas Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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.
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 HAPPYPLACE PRODUCTIONS’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 HAPPYPLACE PRODUCTIONS'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.
- United Way of Monroelenawee Counties Incshared funderslocalMI · backs 2 organizations that share your funders · funds 17 organizations near you
- Piece by Piece Productions Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fractured Atlas Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Jim Henson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alliance of Resident Theatres New York Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Geraldine Stutz Trust Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Laurentshatcher Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Springboard for the Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sundance Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Israel Meir Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Barbara Bell Cumming Foundation Co Kelley Drye & Warren LLPportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lucille Lortel Foundation Incportfolio 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 HAPPYPLACE PRODUCTIONS
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 HAPPYPLACE PRODUCTIONS: 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 HAPPYPLACE PRODUCTIONS?
- HAPPYPLACE PRODUCTIONS (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being KURT L AND RENEE M DARROW FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HAPPYPLACE PRODUCTIONS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,000 in grants to HAPPYPLACE PRODUCTIONS.
- Who is the largest funder of HAPPYPLACE PRODUCTIONS?
- KURT L AND RENEE M DARROW FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HAPPYPLACE PRODUCTIONS 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 2024–2025), 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