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MASTERS COMMISSION INC

MASTERS COMMISSION INC (Michigan) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $360,742 to it, the largest being NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ($100,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$50k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$361k
Net assets
$10k
3/5 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Masters Commission Inc does

Mission

The masters commission was created to provide various positive programs that would assist in the enhancement of citizens in the urban communityits vision is to become a liason between the corporate and urban community

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The masters commission was created to provide various positive programs that would assist in the enhancement of citizens in the urban community its vision is to become a liason between the corporate and urban community

    $45,537 spent$49,549 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $45,537.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($65k) Expenses 100 ($58k) Net assets 100 ($11k)2018 Revenue 98 ($63k) Expenses 127 ($73k) Net assets 17 ($2k)2019 Revenue 70 ($45k) Expenses 75 ($43k) Net assets 32 ($4k)2020 Revenue 11 ($7k) Expenses 6 ($4k) Net assets 52 ($6k)2021 Revenue 372 ($240k) Expenses 417 ($240k) Net assets 55 ($6k)2022 Revenue 242 ($156k) Expenses 269 ($155k) Net assets 70 ($8k)2023 Revenue 228 ($147k) Expenses 260 ($149k) Net assets 49 ($6k)2024 Revenue 286 ($185k) Expenses 323 ($186k) Net assets 50 ($6k)2025 Revenue 77 ($50k) Expenses 79 ($46k) Net assets 85 ($10k)
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Revenue (77)Expenses (79)Net assets (85)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $12k to $2k (−83%).

$12k
$2k
$4k
$6k
$6k
$8k
$6k
$6k
$10k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of MASTERS COMMISSION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (77% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 10,230 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$7k
’17
−$10k
’18
$2k
’19
$3k
’20
$310
’21
$2k
’22
−$2k
’23
−$1k
’24
$4k
’25
2.6
months of
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.

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Listed444444444
Joined·+0+0+0+0+0+0+1+0
No longer listed·00000010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $40k → $95k.

From the IRS filings of MASTERS COMMISSION INC’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

MASTERS COMMISSION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

68% 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 MASTERS COMMISSION INC.

28%
largest funder
72%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 72% · 2022 100% · 2023 89% — 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

58% of MASTERS COMMISSION INC's grant income comes from Michigan funders.

MI
NY
OH

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’21
’22
’23
Michigan out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MASTERS COMMISSION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,328 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · above the median
Months of reserve2.6mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−3% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,328 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like MASTERS COMMISSION INC

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds MASTERS COMMISSION INC?
MASTERS COMMISSION INC (Michigan) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $360,742 to it, the largest being NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ($100,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MASTERS COMMISSION INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $360,742 in grants to MASTERS COMMISSION INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MASTERS COMMISSION INC?
NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MASTERS COMMISSION INC 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 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