Michigan · Nonprofit
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW (Michigan) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,359,016 to it, the largest being INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC ($2,352,269). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2020
- $350k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $3.4M
- Net assets
- $0
What Michigan State University College of Law does
Mission
The mission of the Michigan State University College of Law is to provide a rigorous educational program which prepares a diverse community of students to be national and international leaders in private legal practice, business and industry, government service, and legal education. The law college defines its mission drawing on a century of service, its contemporary association with a major research institution, michigan state university, and a common commitment by these institutions to broad educational access, scholarly excellence, and service to society. The law college teaches core legal skills, supplemented with academic concentrations, programmatic initiatives, and scholarly research and exchanges. The educational program of the college teaches and reinforces the ethical core of good lawyering, the values of professionalism and service, the art of client representation and trial advocacy, and the understanding of legal principles, private rights, and public policy. The law colle
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990.
Program
Provide an accredited educational law program. Enrollment:summer term 2020 - 127 students
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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.
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 $45M to $0 (−100%).
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: 2017 0% · 2018 1% · 2019 0% · 2020 44%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $807k → $383k.
7 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% 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 STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW’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 STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 84% · 2019 61% · 2020 87% · 2021 51% · 2022 54% · 2023 95% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
20% of MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
81% of MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $632k that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from funders outside Michigan, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Organizations like MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW
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
11% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Msu College of Law Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW: 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 STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW?
- MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW (Michigan) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,359,016 to it, the largest being INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC ($2,352,269). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $3,359,016 in grants to MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW?
- INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,352,269 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW 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 FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), and the filings of 14 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