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MICHIGAN DESERVES BETTER

MICHIGAN DESERVES BETTER (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,500 to it, the largest being Road to Michigan's Future ($9,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$92k
Revenue FY2023
2
Funders on record
$16k
Grants received
$29k
Net assets
0/2 repeat funders

Against its field

MICHIGAN DESERVES BETTER receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $16k to it.

Operating margin−5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,026 civil rights nonprofits under $100k, FY2023

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'22
'24*
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of MICHIGAN DESERVES BETTER’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 DESERVES BETTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 DESERVES BETTER.

61%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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

100% of MICHIGAN DESERVES BETTER's grant income comes from Michigan funders.

MI

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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like MICHIGAN DESERVES BETTER

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Michigan

Michigan Organizing Strategy Enabling Strength Action80%Together West Michigan Education Fund79%Fighting for a Better Michigan Fund77%League of Women Voters of Michigan Education Fund77%Michigan Center of Accountability for Republicans77%Michigan Families Matter77%Michigan Opportunity76%Preserve Michigans Future Fund76%

Nationally

Michigan Organizing Strategy Enabling Strength Action80%Together West Michigan Education Fund79%Fighting for a Better Michigan Fund77%League of Women Voters of Michigan Education Fund77%Michigan Center of Accountability for Republicans77%Michigan Families Matter77%Michigan Opportunity76%Preserve Michigans Future Fund76%
04Profile & governance

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MICHIGAN DESERVES BETTER: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds MICHIGAN DESERVES BETTER?
MICHIGAN DESERVES BETTER (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,500 to it, the largest being Road to Michigan's Future ($9,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MICHIGAN DESERVES BETTER have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $15,500 in grants to MICHIGAN DESERVES BETTER.
Who is the largest funder of MICHIGAN DESERVES BETTER?
Road to Michigan's Future is the largest funder on record, with $9,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MICHIGAN DESERVES BETTER 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 FY2023 (financials across 2023–2023), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing