Michigan · Nonprofit
INSTITUTE FOR AFROURBANISM
INSTITUTE FOR AFROURBANISM (Michigan) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,017,500 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($600,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
INSTITUTE FOR AFROURBANISM runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 160 social science nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 160 social science nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2023
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.
- Max M & Marjorie S Fisher Foundation Incshared funders
- Arch Community Fundportfolio match
- Landau Family Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
94% of INSTITUTE FOR AFROURBANISM’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $200k → $1.3M.
From the IRS filings of INSTITUTE FOR AFROURBANISM’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.
How concentrated its funding is
INSTITUTE FOR AFROURBANISM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 78%; 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: 2022 100% · 2023 48% — 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.
Where its funders are
INSTITUTE FOR AFROURBANISM draws 55% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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. Your 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Max M & Marjorie S Fisher Foundation Incshared fundersMI · backs 39 organizations that share your funders
- Arch Community Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Landau Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- One Fair Wage Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Solidaire Network Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Highland Project Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Urban League Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Techsoup Globalportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Grassroots Global Justiceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Race Forwardportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Peggy Meyerhoff Pearlstone Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Amalgamated Transit Unionportfolio 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 INSTITUTE FOR AFROURBANISM
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
90% 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 INSTITUTE FOR AFROURBANISM: 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 INSTITUTE FOR AFROURBANISM?
- INSTITUTE FOR AFROURBANISM (Michigan) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,017,500 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($600,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INSTITUTE FOR AFROURBANISM have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $2,017,500 in grants to INSTITUTE FOR AFROURBANISM, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INSTITUTE FOR AFROURBANISM?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INSTITUTE FOR AFROURBANISM 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 FY2023 (financials across 2021–2023), and the filings of 6funders 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