Michigan · Nonprofit
INSIDEOUT LITERARY ARTS PROJECT
INSIDEOUT LITERARY ARTS PROJECT (Michigan) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,894,200 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,132,050). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $6.9M
- Net assets
- $3.4M
What Insideout Literary Arts Project does
Mission
By immersing students in the joy and power of poetry and literary self- expression, insideout inspires them to think broadly, create bravely and share their voices with the wider world. Guided by professional writers and celebrated by publications and performances, youth learn that their stories and ideas matter and that their pens can launch them off the page into extraordinary lives.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Narrative for 990 (fy2024) 2023/24 was a particularly exciting year for insideout as we refined our staffing structure; grew community programs; and advanced opportunities for youth to develop leadership potential. We increased organizational capacity, expanded our national profile, and bolstered the professional development of staff and teaching artists. In total, we served 3,016 students in 27 schools, published 26 individual anthologies of student writing; engaged 292 teens with after-school workshops at 15 sites; and partnered with 48 organizations to present workshops, performances, and public art to upwards of 1,942 people across metro-detroit. We are particularly proud of the success of our 2nd annual detroit youth poetry conan all-day, teen-focused conference on the campus of wayne state university. It connected youth with michigan poet laureate (and insideout program graduate) nandi comer and national book critics circle award recipient ross gay for writing workshops, career-discovery, community building, and more. Demonstrating the undeniable need and desire teens have to connect in real-world spaces, this event brought 86 students together (33% increase in attendance…
$1,126,913 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,126,913.
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 2023 to 2024, from $2.3M to $3.5M (+50%).
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 5% · 2021 13% · 2022 5% · 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of INSIDEOUT LITERARY ARTS PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $150k → $930k.
7 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of INSIDEOUT LITERARY ARTS PROJECT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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
INSIDEOUT LITERARY ARTS PROJECT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
51% 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 INSIDEOUT LITERARY ARTS PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 36% · 2019 39% · 2020 21% · 2021 25% · 2022 20% · 2023 19% — diversifying over time.
“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 INSIDEOUT LITERARY ARTS PROJECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
81% of INSIDEOUT LITERARY ARTS PROJECT's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
INSIDEOUT LITERARY ARTS PROJECT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding INSIDEOUT LITERARY ARTS PROJECT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $160k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$160k
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 INSIDEOUT LITERARY ARTS PROJECT
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds INSIDEOUT LITERARY ARTS PROJECT?
- INSIDEOUT LITERARY ARTS PROJECT (Michigan) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,894,200 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,132,050). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INSIDEOUT LITERARY ARTS PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $6,894,200 in grants to INSIDEOUT LITERARY ARTS PROJECT, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INSIDEOUT LITERARY ARTS PROJECT?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,132,050 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INSIDEOUT LITERARY ARTS PROJECT 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 40 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