Michigan · Nonprofit
LAUNCH MICHIGAN
LAUNCH MICHIGAN (Michigan) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,265,267 to it, the largest being COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS ($635,267). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $613k
What Launch Michigan does
Mission
Launch Michigan is a cross-partisan, nonprofit organization that includes education, business, labor and philanthropic leaders working together to reimagine michigan's system of public education to prepare every child for success after high school.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Launch Michigan is guided by our framework for transformation. It is a roadmap for reinventing michigan's public education system. The Launch Michigan framework includes three key pillars: 1.) reinvention: create a top-performing education system for michigan and will unlock a college and career readiness standard in a way that revolutionizes education in michigan and provides innovative solutions for all students at all levels. 2.) responsibility: a realigned and redefined system of governance & accountability to redesign an education system that promotes transparency and aligns our state's government structure more cohesively and effectively and has all students in mind. And 3.) resources: increased investment in public education and will invest in our students in a way that addresses their every need, at every level, supporting and promoting growth and prosperity in their future and for the future of michigan's economy.
$624,764 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $624,764.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $105k to $672k (+538%).
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.
100% of LAUNCH MICHIGAN’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 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
Dr Venessa Keesler
President & CEO
Board chair
Jeff Donofrio
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 LAUNCH MICHIGAN’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
LAUNCH MICHIGAN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
59% 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 LAUNCH MICHIGAN.
“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
91% of LAUNCH MICHIGAN's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $90k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
LAUNCH MICHIGAN runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like LAUNCH MICHIGAN
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
60% 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 LAUNCH MICHIGAN: 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 LAUNCH MICHIGAN?
- LAUNCH MICHIGAN (Michigan) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,265,267 to it, the largest being COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS ($635,267). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LAUNCH MICHIGAN have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,265,267 in grants to LAUNCH MICHIGAN, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LAUNCH MICHIGAN?
- COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS is the largest funder on record, with $635,267 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAUNCH MICHIGAN 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 8 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