Michigan · Nonprofit
MICHIGAN COLLEGE ACCESS NETWORK
MICHIGAN COLLEGE ACCESS NETWORK (Michigan) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,117,601 to it, the largest being THE KRESGE FOUNDATION ($4,156,500). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.2M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $3.8M
What Michigan College Access Network does
Mission
Our goal: increase the percentage of michigan residents with postsecondary certificates or degrees to 60 percent by the year 2030.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Detroit college access network is no longer a program under mcan. They became their own 501(c)(3) and were last reported under mcan on june 30,2025.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Advisemi places americorps college advisors into high school buildings to support students completing college applications, the fafsa, and scholarship applications.
$1,596,083 spent15% of program spendingCollege completion corps places americorps completion coaches into tribal and community colleges to support students' retention, persistence and completion of a certificate or degree.
$1,002,183 spent10% of program spendingDetroit college access network (dcan) is a collaborative network between local schools, organizations, and the community. The mission of the network is to promote higher education in detroit and make a college degree or credential a reality for students in detroit.during the year ended september 30, 2025, dcan received 501(c)3 exemption status under the internal revenue code. Thus, as of june 2025, the organization no longer serves as its fiscal sponsor. All funds held by the organization were transferred to dcan during the fiscal year ended september 30, 2025.
$2,967,272 spentof which $88,000 as grants$36,851 earned by the program28% of program spendingOther program services include college access and success programs and activities working toward the state's sixty by 30 goal.
$4,914,890 spentof which $1,435,394 as grants$470,660 earned by the program47% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,480,428.
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 2024 to 2025, from $12M to $4.9M (−57%).
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 82% · 2018 85% · 2019 52% · 2020 50% · 2021 52% · 2022 48% · 2023 46% · 2024 55% · 2025 84%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of MICHIGAN COLLEGE ACCESS NETWORK’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Sharon Mortensen
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $224k → $2.1M.
11 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $48k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Michigan College Access Network). These are real filings, and they are not money MICHIGAN COLLEGE ACCESS NETWORK raised.
From the IRS filings of MICHIGAN COLLEGE ACCESS NETWORK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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 COLLEGE ACCESS NETWORK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 26% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
56% 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 COLLEGE ACCESS NETWORK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 42% · 2019 65% · 2020 42% · 2021 41% · 2022 41% · 2023 45% — 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
69% of MICHIGAN COLLEGE ACCESS NETWORK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
90% of MICHIGAN COLLEGE ACCESS NETWORK's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 COLLEGE ACCESS NETWORK's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 16 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding MICHIGAN COLLEGE ACCESS NETWORK receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $34k on record.
- Corporation for National and Community Service$34k
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 COLLEGE ACCESS NETWORK
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MICHIGAN COLLEGE ACCESS NETWORK?
- MICHIGAN COLLEGE ACCESS NETWORK (Michigan) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,117,601 to it, the largest being THE KRESGE FOUNDATION ($4,156,500). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MICHIGAN COLLEGE ACCESS NETWORK have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $16,117,601 in grants to MICHIGAN COLLEGE ACCESS NETWORK, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MICHIGAN COLLEGE ACCESS NETWORK?
- THE KRESGE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,156,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MICHIGAN COLLEGE ACCESS NETWORK 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.
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 33 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