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Michigan Advocacy Program
Michigan Advocacy Program (Michigan) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,041,504 to it, the largest being MICHIGAN STATE BAR FOUNDATION ($25,960,555). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $28M
- Funders on record
- 63
- Grants received
- $63M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Michigan Advocacy Program does
Mission
To advance the safety, independence, and economic stability of those most affected by poverty, racism, and other structurally oppressive systems by increasing access to justice and working for systemic solutions.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2024, MAP (miadvocacy.org) handled 15,535 cases and helped 42,359 people. This includes helping 21,210 people through our local field offices (Legal Services of South Central Michigan; lsscm.org) with civil legal issues such as family law, evictions and other housing related matters, expungement, income protection, and access to healthcare. Through our statewide programs (Michigan Statewide Advocacy Services; michigansas.org), we responded to 981 support requests (training, case consultant and/or research); we conducted 22 task force meetings reaching 740 people; the Michigan Legal Help website had 3.2 million pageviews and helped people complete 157,046 legal forms.
$23,374,031 spent$79,820 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $23,374,031.
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 2017 to 2018, from $11M to $14M (+25%).
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 55% · 2018 48% · 2019 57% · 2020 55% · 2021 87% · 2022 89% · 2023 79% · 2024 56%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Michigan Advocacy Program’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Shannon Lucas
Executive Director - MAP
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $8.1M → $8.7M.
16 of 63 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 Michigan Advocacy Program’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 63 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
Michigan Advocacy Program leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
86% 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 Michigan Advocacy Program.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 44% · 2019 55% · 2020 48% · 2021 36% · 2022 40% · 2023 44% — 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
53% of Michigan Advocacy Program's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
64% of Michigan Advocacy Program's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
Michigan Advocacy Program runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 254 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 254 crime & legal nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding Michigan Advocacy Program receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record.
- Department of Justice$750k
- Department of Veterans Affairs$300k
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 Michigan Advocacy Program
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Msas · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Michigan Advocacy Program: 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 Michigan Advocacy Program?
- Michigan Advocacy Program (Michigan) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,041,504 to it, the largest being MICHIGAN STATE BAR FOUNDATION ($25,960,555). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Michigan Advocacy Program have?
- IRS filings report 63 organizations giving $63,041,504 in grants to Michigan Advocacy Program, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Michigan Advocacy Program?
- MICHIGAN STATE BAR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,960,555 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Michigan Advocacy Program 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 63 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