Michigan · Nonprofit
INTERNATIONAL BIG HISTORY ASSOCIATION
INTERNATIONAL BIG HISTORY ASSOCIATION (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,502 to it, the largest being AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ($36,336). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $31k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $37k
- Net assets
- $66k
What International Big History Association does
Mission
Membership Outreach and the creation of new knowledge in big history through the dissemination of our newsletter and email updates.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Coordinating activities Internationally through our membership database, including providing updates to members on collaborative research projects, sharing information on big history through individual travel efforts and guest lecturing, and seeking affiliations with other Associations and Organizations with similar initiatives to benefit Global Efforts.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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 $84k to $59k (−29%).
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.
0% of INTERNATIONAL BIG HISTORY ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $50 → $28k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 INTERNATIONAL BIG HISTORY ASSOCIATION’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
INTERNATIONAL BIG HISTORY ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 INTERNATIONAL BIG HISTORY ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
INTERNATIONAL BIG HISTORY ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $166 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
INTERNATIONAL BIG HISTORY ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 435 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 435 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2026
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In Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INTERNATIONAL BIG HISTORY ASSOCIATION: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL BIG HISTORY ASSOCIATION?
- INTERNATIONAL BIG HISTORY ASSOCIATION (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,502 to it, the largest being AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ($36,336). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INTERNATIONAL BIG HISTORY ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $36,502 in grants to INTERNATIONAL BIG HISTORY ASSOCIATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INTERNATIONAL BIG HISTORY ASSOCIATION?
- AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $36,336 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INTERNATIONAL BIG HISTORY ASSOCIATION 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 2 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