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MICHIGAN MUNICIPAL LEAGUE FOUNDATION

MICHIGAN MUNICIPAL LEAGUE FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,449,613 to it, the largest being THE RALPH C WILSON JR FOUNDATION ($3,237,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$869k
Funders on record
19
Grants received
$7.4M
Net assets
$1.7M
10/19 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Michigan Municipal League Foundation does

Mission

To operate exclusively for charitable, scientific, literary or educational purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3), and to organize to work with michigan communities to support efforts that bring people together and build equitable community wealth.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. To assist the city of hamtramck & the hamtramck school district to develop and long-term plan to redevelop the 26 acre veteran's park stadium district and to support the hamtramck parks conservancy with organizational expenses. The work is a significant first step toward the renovation, maintenance, and activation of the park campus, which includes keyworth stadium and the historic hamtramck stadium.

    $642,054 spent
    38% of program spending

  2. Wilson foundation - develop new programming focused on building municipal capacity and capital supports to identify and implement inclusive economic growth strategies through entrepreneurship and small business growth. To assist the city of hamtramck & the hamtramck school district to develop and long-term plan to redevelop the 26 acre veteran's park stadium district. The work is a significant first step toward the renovation, maintenance, and activation of the park campus, which includes keyworth stadium and the historic hamtramck stadium.

    $439,912 spentof which $24,000 as grants
    26% of program spending

  3. Subnational diplomacy initiative to define how cities can engage in international affairs to benefit their citizens.

    $216,124 spent
    13% of program spending

  4. Lead service line replacement

    $188,234 spent
    11% of program spending

  5. Mi water navigator - funded through the c.s. Mott foundation & joyce foundation. This program is intended to help cities finance water improvements and or access state and federal resouces re: water affordability.

    $94,516 spentof which $40,000 as grants
    6% of program spending

  6. Dow housing

    $69,715 spent
    4% of program spending

  7. Dte local economies

    $23,500 spentof which $8,000 as grants
    1% of program spending

  8. Learning management system - online learning tool for local elected officials

    $12,000 spent
    1% of program spending

  9. Tim doyle leadership development fund contributed to the mml's learning management system in an effort to support an online learning tool for local elected officials

    $5,000 spentof which $5,000 as grants
    0% of program spending

  10. Bridgebuilder grant program produced a celebration book to spotlight projects around the state of michigan.

    $4,070 spent
    0% of program spending

The 10 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,695,125.

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 ($157k) Expenses 100 ($161k) Net assets 100 ($421k)2018 Revenue 402 ($630k) Expenses 363 ($584k) Net assets 110 ($464k)2019 Revenue 736 ($1.2M) Expenses 702 ($1.1M) Net assets 116 ($486k)2020 Revenue 3882 ($6.1M) Expenses 3446 ($5.5M) Net assets 241 ($1.0M)2021 Revenue 7262 ($11M) Expenses 7374 ($12M) Net assets 146 ($613k)2022 Revenue 992 ($1.6M) Expenses 992 ($1.6M) Net assets 116 ($487k)2023 Revenue 710 ($1.1M) Expenses 651 ($1.0M) Net assets 138 ($582k)2024 Revenue 1743 ($2.7M) Expenses 1590 ($2.6M) Net assets 617 ($2.6M)2025 Revenue 555 ($869k) Expenses 1085 ($1.7M) Net assets 410 ($1.7M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (555)Expenses (1085)Net assets (410)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 2024 to 2025, from $3.3M to $1.9M (−44%).

$513k
$1.1M
$738k
$1.1M
$1.7M
$1.7M
$2.9M
$3.3M
$1.9M
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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: 2020 81% · 2021 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

91% of MICHIGAN MUNICIPAL LEAGUE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,828 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.

−$4k
’17
$46k
’18
$25k
’19
$547k
’20
−$468k
’21
−$39k
’22
$67k
’23
$175k
’24
−$874k
’25
11
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.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Listed181414181818201920
Joined·+0+0+5+3+0+2+2+5
No longer listed·40130034
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $86k → $1.5M.

Funder
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'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
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'25*
total
funders
1
2
2
6
6
8
7
11
1

7 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 MUNICIPAL LEAGUE FOUNDATION’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 MUNICIPAL LEAGUE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

43%
largest funder
67%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 98% · 2019 88% · 2020 57% · 2021 68% · 2022 61% · 2023 33% — 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

43% of MICHIGAN MUNICIPAL LEAGUE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

91% of MICHIGAN MUNICIPAL LEAGUE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Michigan funders.

IL
MI
NJ

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

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’23
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $832k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MICHIGAN MUNICIPAL LEAGUE FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−101% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve11.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)24% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like MICHIGAN MUNICIPAL LEAGUE FOUNDATION

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

Michigan Made Great Fund79%Michigan Baseball Foundation Inc78%McLaren Greater Lansing Foundation78%Michigan League of Conservation Voters Education Fund78%Michigan Afterschool Association78%Michigan Congress of Parents & Teachers78%Michigan Founders Fund78%Michigan Chamber Foundation78%

Nationally

Michigan Made Great Fund79%Maine Education Leaders Professional Learning Collaborative79%Michigan Baseball Foundation Inc78%McLaren Greater Lansing Foundation78%Plymouth Lions Foundation Inc78%Milton Legacy Baseball78%Michigan League of Conservation Voters Education Fund78%Michigan Afterschool Association78%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 3%Fundraising 0%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

90%

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

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Michigan Municipal League · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MICHIGAN MUNICIPAL LEAGUE FOUNDATION: 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 MUNICIPAL LEAGUE FOUNDATION?
MICHIGAN MUNICIPAL LEAGUE FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,449,613 to it, the largest being THE RALPH C WILSON JR FOUNDATION ($3,237,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MICHIGAN MUNICIPAL LEAGUE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $7,449,613 in grants to MICHIGAN MUNICIPAL LEAGUE FOUNDATION, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MICHIGAN MUNICIPAL LEAGUE FOUNDATION?
THE RALPH C WILSON JR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,237,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MICHIGAN MUNICIPAL LEAGUE FOUNDATION 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 19 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