Michigan · Nonprofit
METRO DETROIT BOOK AND AUTHOR SOCIETY
METRO DETROIT BOOK AND AUTHOR SOCIETY (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $27 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($27). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2022
- —
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $27
- Net assets
- $0
What Metro Detroit Book and Author Society does
Mission
Help metro detroit area libraries to purchase books and to promote literacy in the detroit area.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Grant made to 501c3 organization that promotes literacy
$40,057 spentof which $40,016 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $40,057.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $40k to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $17 → $5.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 METRO DETROIT BOOK AND AUTHOR SOCIETY’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.
Where its funders are
100% of METRO DETROIT BOOK AND AUTHOR SOCIETY'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27 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.
Organizations like METRO DETROIT BOOK AND AUTHOR SOCIETY
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for METRO DETROIT BOOK AND AUTHOR SOCIETY: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds METRO DETROIT BOOK AND AUTHOR SOCIETY?
- METRO DETROIT BOOK AND AUTHOR SOCIETY (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $27 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($27). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does METRO DETROIT BOOK AND AUTHOR SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $27 in grants to METRO DETROIT BOOK AND AUTHOR SOCIETY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of METRO DETROIT BOOK AND AUTHOR SOCIETY?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $27 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like METRO DETROIT BOOK AND AUTHOR SOCIETY 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.
Play a game about who funds Metro Detroit Book and Author Society →
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2022 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 1 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