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MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY (Michigan) receives grants from 708 organizations whose IRS filings report $551,083,284 to it, the largest being The Big Ten Conference Inc ($891,057,088). 406 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 708 funders by total. Association, not causation.
How concentrated its funding is
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
How long its funders stay
53% of MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.
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
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY draws 64% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 42 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Nfpa Education & Technology Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Parkinson Voice Project Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.0B on record.
- Department of Energy$1.1B
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.0B
- National Science Foundation$681.9M
- Department of Agriculture$486.2M
- Department of Education$248.2M
- Agency for International Development$151.5M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Michigan
Nationally
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY?
- MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY (Michigan) receives grants from 708 organizations whose IRS filings report $551,083,284 to it, the largest being The Big Ten Conference Inc ($891,057,088). 406 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 708 organizations giving $551,083,284 in grants to MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY, 406 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY?
- The Big Ten Conference Inc is the largest funder on record, with $891,057,088 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY 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 FY2023, and the filings of 708funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing