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MICHIGAN INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART

MICHIGAN INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $116,687 to it, the largest being ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER LANSING ($93,661). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$183k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$117k
Net assets
$382k
3/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 50%
01What it does

What Michigan Institute for Contemporary Art does

Mission

Community events such as jazzfest, bluesfest, art gallery and other events that bring artists together with audiences and that promote the lansing old town business district.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Community events such as jazzfest, bluesfest, art gallery and other events that bring artists together with audiences and that promote the business district.

    $143,297 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $143,297.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($189k) Expenses 100 ($195k) Net assets -6 ($-21596)2018 Revenue 69 ($130k) Expenses 97 ($189k) Net assets -21 ($-80187)2019 Revenue 75 ($142k) Expenses 77 ($150k) Net assets -23 ($-87865)2020 Revenue 22 ($42k) Expenses 28 ($54k) Net assets 100 ($390k)2021 Revenue 63 ($119k) Expenses 62 ($121k) Net assets 99 ($388k)2022 Revenue 112 ($213k) Expenses 96 ($187k) Net assets 106 ($414k)2023 Revenue 107 ($202k) Expenses 117 ($228k) Net assets 99 ($388k)2024 Revenue 96 ($183k) Expenses 97 ($189k) Net assets 98 ($382k)
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Revenue (96)Expenses (97)Net assets (98)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $25k to $517k (+1938%).

$16k
$19k
$25k
$517k
$530k
$622k
$584k
$569k
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 12% · 2018 11% · 2019 8% · 2020 42% · 2021 31% · 2022 42% · 2023 18% · 2024 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$5k
’17
−$59k
’18
−$8k
’19
−$12k
’20
−$2k
’21
$26k
’22
−$26k
’23
−$7k
’24
2.1
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.

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Listed7656661210
Joined·+2+1+1+0+0+7+3
No longer listed·3200015
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $6k → $15k.

1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART’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 INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% 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

97% 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 INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART.

80%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 80% · 2022 97% · 2023 93% — 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.

Where its funders are

100% of MICHIGAN INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART's grant income comes from Michigan funders.

MI

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

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

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26 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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding MICHIGAN INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.

Federal$20k
grants $20kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$20k

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 INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 20%Fundraising 4%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds MICHIGAN INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART?
MICHIGAN INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $116,687 to it, the largest being ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER LANSING ($93,661). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MICHIGAN INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $116,687 in grants to MICHIGAN INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MICHIGAN INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART?
ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER LANSING is the largest funder on record, with $93,661 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MICHIGAN INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART 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 4 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