Michigan · Nonprofit
Michigan Saves
Michigan Saves (Michigan) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,780,659 to it, the largest being Builders Vision Foundation ($575,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.6M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $24M
What Michigan Saves does
Mission
To promote accessible, equitable, and just investments in energy efficiency and clean energy to support healthy and thriving communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The corporation is organized exclusively for charitable, scientific, literary, and educational purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)3 of the internal revenue code of 1986, as amended (the "code") or comparable subsequent legislation. In furtherance of these purposes, the purpose of the corporation is to create statewide, innovative energy efficiency and distributed renewable energy financing system for the benefit of utility customers in the state of Michigan, and to engage in activities thereto.
$12,355,468 spentof which $3,435,025 as grants$3,043,198 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $12,355,468.
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.
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 $36M to $131M (+263%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 32% · 2019 7% · 2020 52% · 2021 64% · 2022 45% · 2023 72% · 2024 67% · 2025 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
44% of Michigan Saves’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Chief executive
Sally Talberg
Chief Executive Officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $91k → $500k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 Saves’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 Saves leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
26% 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 Saves.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 55% · 2021 54% · 2023 50% — 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
Michigan Saves draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $349k 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.
Against its field
Michigan Saves holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Michigan Saves
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Fund for Energy Efficiency LLC · partnership
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Michigan Saves: 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 Saves?
- Michigan Saves (Michigan) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,780,659 to it, the largest being Builders Vision Foundation ($575,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Michigan Saves have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $1,780,659 in grants to Michigan Saves, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Michigan Saves?
- Builders Vision Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $575,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Michigan Saves 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 7 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