Michigan · Nonprofit
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts (Michigan) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,846,414 to it, the largest being KALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($3,135,175). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.3M
- Funders on record
- 44
- Grants received
- $5.8M
- Net assets
- $33M
What Kalamazoo Institute of Arts does
Mission
To provide the residents of southwest Michigan with the opportunity to both appreciate and create visual art.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
School programs include classes of art creation for students ranging from pre-school to senior citizens. The school includes many areas ranging from two-dimensional media including design, drawing, painting, photography, weaving, and printmaking. The program includes threedimensional media including glass, jewelry, sculpture, and ceramics. Creative writing and wellness have been added to the selection of classes. The holiday sale is a three-day event featuring creations of over 170 local artists who teach or attend the school.
$1,872,773 spent$785,567 earned by the program42% of program spendingExhibits and permanent collection include fine art exhibits from around the world, featured in various galleries. Also on exhibit are works from over 4,700 pieces in the permanent collection. The strength of the kia's permanent collection is american art, from eighteenth and nineteenth- century portraiture and landscape painting to modern and contemporary abstraction and figurative works.
$2,025,510 spent$63,817 earned by the program45% of program spendingMuseum education promotes the understanding of the visual arts for all ages, backgrounds, and abilities through tours, programs, and a research library. Guided tours for all audiences are available upon request and include tours plus a hands-on art experiences and tours for individuals with special needs. Other programs pertinent to exhibitions and collection objects on display include a weekly artbreak series featuring speakers and videos on art-related topics, a monthly art detectives programs for ages 4 -8, book discussions, and communityfocused collaborative evening programs. Museum education also coordinates annual exhibitions of k-8 and high school art and an annual high school portfolio day.
$457,428 spent10% of program spendingGallery shop - sells merchandise related to temporary exhibitions, unique items created by local artists, books related to the arts, cards, gifts and other items.
$122,005 spent3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,477,716.
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 2020 to 2021, from $32M to $37M (+15%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 2% · 2020 1% · 2021 15% · 2022 2% · 2023 3% · 2024 1% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
26% of Kalamazoo Institute of Arts’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 6 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Michelle Hargrave
Executive Director
Board chair
Perry Wolfe
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $483k → $978k.
7 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $347k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Southwest Michigan First Corp). These are real filings, and they are not money Kalamazoo Institute of Arts raised.
From the IRS filings of Kalamazoo Institute of Arts’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 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
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
58% 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 Kalamazoo Institute of Arts.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 74% · 2019 69% · 2020 40% · 2021 62% · 2022 51% · 2023 43% — 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
67% of Kalamazoo Institute of Arts's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
58% of Kalamazoo Institute of Arts's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2.5M that is directly attributable, 73% of it comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.4M 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
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Kalamazoo Institute of Arts receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $686k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$466k
- National Endowment for the Arts$220k
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 Kalamazoo Institute of Arts
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
67%
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 Kalamazoo Institute of Arts: 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 Kalamazoo Institute of Arts?
- Kalamazoo Institute of Arts (Michigan) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,846,414 to it, the largest being KALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($3,135,175). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Kalamazoo Institute of Arts have?
- IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $5,846,414 in grants to Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Kalamazoo Institute of Arts?
- KALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,135,175 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Kalamazoo Institute of Arts 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 44 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing