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Michigan Community Resources

Michigan Community Resources (Michigan) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,182,560 to it, the largest being THE KRESGE FOUNDATION ($3,468,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.1M
Funders on record
21
Grants received
$9.2M
Net assets
$2.6M
16/21 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Michigan Community Resources does

Mission

We advance the missions of michigan nonprofit organizations that serve low income individuals and communitiesthrough pro bono and low cost legal and other professional services, organizational development, and trusted guidance.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Objective: To provide cohort-based capacity building and peer learning opportunities for nonprofits alongside funding partners. Provided capacity building support to 44 grantees through the Kresge Innovative Project:Detroit program and Enterprise Emerging Community Development Organization (ECDO) program.

    $488,624 spent$25,000 earned by the program
    46% of program spending
  2. Objective: To provide trusted legal guidance and consultation to nonprofits and small businesses. Placed 77 matters from 70 nonprofits, creating volunteer opportunities for approximately 11 pro bono attorneys. Hosted 1 legal clinic supporting 9 nonprofits with legal compliance. Co-hosted 4 workshops in partnership with local organizations with a focus on compliance and governance. Completed 66 internal legal consultations with 60 nonprofits.

    $314,747 spent
    30% of program spending
  3. Objective: To support the development of a strong nonprofit ecosystem in Southeast Michigan. Hosted networking events connecting nonprofit leaders with nonprofit service providers. Maintained Dovetail website(www.dovetaildetroit.org), a tool to connect nonprofits to technical consultants. Convened Transforming Solidarity Collective, a collaborative intermediary service model for nonprofits.

    $250,971 spent$82,255 earned by the program
    24% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,054,342.

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 ($1.2M) Expenses 100 ($1.1M) Net assets 100 ($308k)2018 Revenue 122 ($1.4M) Expenses 89 ($954k) Net assets 249 ($766k)2019 Revenue 158 ($1.8M) Expenses 117 ($1.3M) Net assets 436 ($1.3M)2020 Revenue 99 ($1.1M) Expenses 115 ($1.2M) Net assets 410 ($1.3M)2021 Revenue 233 ($2.7M) Expenses 142 ($1.5M) Net assets 796 ($2.4M)2022 Revenue 139 ($1.6M) Expenses 159 ($1.7M) Net assets 764 ($2.4M)2023 Revenue 132 ($1.5M) Expenses 146 ($1.6M) Net assets 751 ($2.3M)2024 Revenue 111 ($1.3M) Expenses 150 ($1.6M) Net assets 646 ($2.0M)2025 Revenue 184 ($2.1M) Expenses 137 ($1.5M) Net assets 860 ($2.6M)
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Revenue (184)Expenses (137)Net assets (860)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 2020 to 2021, from $1.5M to $2.5M (+70%).

$348k
$823k
$1.4M
$1.5M
$2.5M
$2.5M
$2.4M
$2.1M
$2.7M
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2021 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

93% of Michigan Community Resources’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,394 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$88k
’17
$459k
’18
$575k
’19
−$81k
’20
$1.2M
’21
−$99k
’22
−$40k
’23
−$324k
’24
$660k
’25
12
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.

Board chair

Robin Toewe

Board Chair Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed171513161616161712
Joined·+3+4+3+2+1+0+1+0
No longer listed·56021005
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $1.0M → $1.2M.

2 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 Community Resources’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

Michigan Community Resources leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

27% 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 Community Resources.

38%
largest funder
66%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 60% · 2019 56% · 2020 31% · 2021 33% · 2022 40% · 2023 48% — 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

57% of Michigan Community Resources's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 76% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

86% of Michigan Community Resources's grant income comes from Michigan funders.

MI
NY
OH
MD
NC

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $420k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Michigan Community Resources runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 852 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin31% · top quartile
Months of reserve11.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 852 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

72% of spending goes to programs.

Program 72%Management 21%Fundraising 8%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

31%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MI

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Questions and answers

Who funds Michigan Community Resources?
Michigan Community Resources (Michigan) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,182,560 to it, the largest being THE KRESGE FOUNDATION ($3,468,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Michigan Community Resources have?
IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $9,182,560 in grants to Michigan Community Resources, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Michigan Community Resources?
THE KRESGE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,468,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Michigan Community Resources 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 21 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