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MICHIGAN PRESS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION

MICHIGAN PRESS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,904 to it, the largest being TROTT FOUNDATION ($10,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$55k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$11k
Net assets
$498k
3/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 14%
01What it does

What Michigan Press Association Foundation does

Mission

To receive and administer funds to perform charitable, educational, scientific and literary functions in support of the activities and purposes of the michigan press association.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Foundation supports and maintains several programs, scholarships and events each year including the disbursement of 5 scholarships to college students majoring in Journalism, hosting an Annual Golf Benefit & Auction, as well as the MPA Annual Convention.

    $25,343 spentof which $10,200 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $25,343.

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 ($37k) Expenses 100 ($47k) Net assets 100 ($444k)2018 Revenue 146 ($55k) Expenses 91 ($43k) Net assets 106 ($470k)2019 Revenue 90 ($33k) Expenses 87 ($42k) Net assets 104 ($463k)2020 Revenue 74 ($28k) Expenses 120 ($57k) Net assets 102 ($452k)2021 Revenue 279 ($104k) Expenses 203 ($96k) Net assets 116 ($517k)2022 Revenue 144 ($54k) Expenses 157 ($75k) Net assets 97 ($433k)2023 Revenue 104 ($39k) Expenses 104 ($49k) Net assets 100 ($444k)2024 Revenue 148 ($55k) Expenses 103 ($49k) Net assets 112 ($498k)
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Revenue (148)Expenses (103)Net assets (112)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $522k to $443k (−15%).

$450k
$470k
$465k
$468k
$522k
$443k
$449k
$498k
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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: 2021 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$10k
’17
$12k
’18
−$8k
’19
−$29k
’20
$8k
’21
−$21k
’22
−$10k
’23
$6k
’24
7.7
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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Listed1513191818191617
Joined·+1+9+3+5+6+2+3
No longer listed·3345552
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $150 → $6k.

Funder
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'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1
2
2
1

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 PRESS ASSOCIATION 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 PRESS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% 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

96%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 61% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.

“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 PRESS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Michigan funders.

MI

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

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’22
’23
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $154 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

Organizations like MICHIGAN PRESS ASSOCIATION 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

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

50% of spending goes to programs.

Program 50%Management 35%Fundraising 15%

Governance

15
board members
93%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

65%

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 Press Association · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MICHIGAN PRESS ASSOCIATION 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 PRESS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION?
MICHIGAN PRESS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,904 to it, the largest being TROTT FOUNDATION ($10,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MICHIGAN PRESS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $10,904 in grants to MICHIGAN PRESS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MICHIGAN PRESS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION?
TROTT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MICHIGAN PRESS ASSOCIATION 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.

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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 3 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