Michigan · Nonprofit
MAKE MICHIGAN FIRST
MAKE MICHIGAN FIRST (Michigan) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $602,000 to it, the largest being CITIZENS FOR ENERGIZING MICHIGAN'S ECONOMY ($467,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $15k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $602k
- Net assets
- $48k
What Make Michigan First does
Mission
To receive and administer funds that will be used to educate michigan's citizens on economic, educational, health care, land use issues, and to promote the free market economy, civic betterment, social improvement and democracy in michigan.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
Administrative expenses.
$831 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $831.
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 2018 to 2019, from $604k to $30k (−95%).
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 MAKE MICHIGAN FIRST’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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 → 2020: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $25k → $100k.
From the IRS filings of MAKE MICHIGAN FIRST’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
MAKE MICHIGAN FIRST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 94%; 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 MAKE MICHIGAN FIRST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 50% — 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
100% of MAKE MICHIGAN FIRST's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
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.
Against its field
MAKE MICHIGAN FIRST's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 160 social science nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Organizations like MAKE MICHIGAN FIRST
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
100% 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 MAKE MICHIGAN FIRST: 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 MAKE MICHIGAN FIRST?
- MAKE MICHIGAN FIRST (Michigan) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $602,000 to it, the largest being CITIZENS FOR ENERGIZING MICHIGAN'S ECONOMY ($467,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MAKE MICHIGAN FIRST have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $602,000 in grants to MAKE MICHIGAN FIRST.
- Who is the largest funder of MAKE MICHIGAN FIRST?
- CITIZENS FOR ENERGIZING MICHIGAN'S ECONOMY is the largest funder on record, with $467,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAKE MICHIGAN FIRST 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 5 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