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MICHIGAN SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL SURVEYORS

MICHIGAN SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL SURVEYORS (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $31,831 to it, the largest being National Council of Examiners For Engineering and Surveying ($31,831). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$536k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$32k
Net assets
$1.1M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Michigan Society of Professional Surveyors does

Mission

Member association whose purpose is to promote common good and welfare of its members in their activities in the profession of surveying and to promote and maintain high standards of professional practices and ethics.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Seminars and convention held to educate and inform the association's members.

    $192,676 spent
    87% of program spending
  2. Legistlative program to educate and inform law makers on professional surveyors standards and ethics.

    $29,717 spent
    13% of program spending
  3. Seminars held to educate and inform the association's members. Newsletters and legislative reports designed to educate and inform the association's membership.

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $222,393.

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 ($241k) Expenses 100 ($259k) Net assets 100 ($537k)2018 Revenue 144 ($347k) Expenses 128 ($330k) Net assets 98 ($525k)2019 Revenue 154 ($372k) Expenses 130 ($336k) Net assets 109 ($587k)2020 Revenue 145 ($349k) Expenses 111 ($288k) Net assets 127 ($682k)2021 Revenue 147 ($354k) Expenses 88 ($228k) Net assets 143 ($769k)2022 Revenue 155 ($374k) Expenses 133 ($343k) Net assets 133 ($715k)2023 Revenue 168 ($405k) Expenses 133 ($343k) Net assets 157 ($842k)2024 Revenue 208 ($502k) Expenses 155 ($400k) Net assets 176 ($944k)2025 Revenue 223 ($536k) Expenses 156 ($405k) Net assets 200 ($1.1M)
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Revenue (223)Expenses (156)Net assets (200)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $928k to $1.1M (+16%).

$717k
$693k
$788k
$831k
$967k
$928k
$1.1M
$1.2M
$1.3M
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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

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$18k
’17
$16k
’18
$36k
’19
$61k
’20
$126k
’21
$31k
’22
$62k
’23
$102k
’24
$132k
’25
19
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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Listed1517161514131099
Joined·+7+1+2+6+3+0+2+0
No longer listed·52374330
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $11k → $7k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
total
funders
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of MICHIGAN SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL SURVEYORS’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.

Where its funders are

MICHIGAN SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL SURVEYORS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 1 state in all.

SC

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

’17
’18
’19
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 PROFESSIONAL SURVEYORS

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

55% of spending goes to programs.

Program 55%Management 45%Fundraising 0%

Governance

14
board members
100%
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 PROFESSIONAL SURVEYORS?
MICHIGAN SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL SURVEYORS (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $31,831 to it, the largest being National Council of Examiners For Engineering and Surveying ($31,831). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MICHIGAN SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL SURVEYORS have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $31,831 in grants to MICHIGAN SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL SURVEYORS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MICHIGAN SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL SURVEYORS?
National Council of Examiners For Engineering and Surveying is the largest funder on record, with $31,831 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MICHIGAN SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL SURVEYORS 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 1 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