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MICHIGAN SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTS

MICHIGAN SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTS (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,450 to it, the largest being MICHIGAN ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION ($17,450). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$893k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$17k
Net assets
$153k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Michigan Society of Architects does

Mission

To devote itself to the promotion of the science of architecture amongst its membership or elsewhere, and to further educate its membership and other in the knowledge of the science of architecture.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Midsummer conference - program designed to continue the education of architects. Architects and non architect professionals discuss issues that relate to the profession in an informal setting. Approximately 2,800 announcements and brochures are distributed. 2024 attendance was 328 adults and 94 children.

    $235,514 spent$262,668 earned by the program
    25% of program spending
  2. Awards and professional recognitionhonor awards - program to honor individuals for their contributions to the architectural profession and firms for their designs. Approximately 2,000 announcements were distributed and the organization received 75 submittals for award consideration. 2024 attendance was approximately 148 professionals and guests.

    $9,568 spent$78,427 earned by the program
    1% of program spending
  3. Health facilities planning seminar - annual seminar held to provide architects, engineers, health care executives and other interested professionals with the latest available information to assist them in planning, designing, constructing and maintaining health facilities. Approximately 2,500 announcements and brochures were distributed. The 2024 seminar featured several speakers and was attended by approximately 345 guests.

    $160,001 spent$149,986 earned by the program
    17% of program spending
  4. Annual meeting and convention - the annual business meeting is convened to elect new board of directors and discuss other organizational and professional matters. Approximately 1,900 notices were sent out and approximately 20 members participated in the 2024 meeting.design retreat - program designed to create a gathering of young andold practitioners to concentrate on design ideas. The retreat featured approximately ten presentations of built projects which were developed by variety of architects. Approximately 1,800 email announcements were distributed. 2024 attendance was 145 professionals and guests.aia michigan newsletter - electronically published monthly to keep architects abreast of current events affecting the profession. The newsletter is not printed, but is posted to the aia michigan website and is available to the general public. Monday minutes - electronically published on the aia michigan website weekly with announcements and updates of current events.other programs include educational seminars for practicing architects and study programs for emerging professionals who plan to take the architectural registration examination.

    $551,198 spent$57,794 earned by the program
    58% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $956,281.

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 ($749k) Expenses 100 ($772k) Net assets 100 ($445k)2018 Revenue 102 ($767k) Expenses 102 ($786k) Net assets 102 ($454k)2019 Revenue 108 ($812k) Expenses 109 ($845k) Net assets 101 ($449k)2020 Revenue 72 ($541k) Expenses 77 ($591k) Net assets 91 ($406k)2021 Revenue 94 ($703k) Expenses 95 ($730k) Net assets 85 ($380k)2022 Revenue 99 ($739k) Expenses 101 ($781k) Net assets 70 ($311k)2023 Revenue 111 ($828k) Expenses 120 ($923k) Net assets 49 ($220k)2024 Revenue 119 ($893k) Expenses 124 ($956k) Net assets 34 ($153k)
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Revenue (119)Expenses (124)Net assets (34)

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 $575k to $444k (−23%).

$581k
$581k
$575k
$444k
$476k
$365k
$331k
$309k
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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 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

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

−$23k
’17
−$19k
’18
−$32k
’19
−$50k
’20
−$27k
’21
−$42k
’22
−$94k
’23
−$63k
’24
1.6
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.

Chief executive

Cathy Mosley Hon Aff Aiami

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1516131314111213
Joined·+3+1+2+3+0+4+4
No longer listed·2422333
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $11k → $6k.

Funder
'19
'20
'21
total
funders
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of MICHIGAN SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 1 of 2 funders by total. 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.

Where its funders are

100% of MICHIGAN SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTS's grant income comes from Michigan funders.

MI

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

’19
’21
Michigan out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like MICHIGAN SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTS

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

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

18
board members
94%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds MICHIGAN SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTS?
MICHIGAN SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTS (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,450 to it, the largest being MICHIGAN ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION ($17,450). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MICHIGAN SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTS have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $17,450 in grants to MICHIGAN SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MICHIGAN SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTS?
MICHIGAN ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $17,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MICHIGAN SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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