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MICHIGAN STREET PRESERVATION CORP

MICHIGAN STREET PRESERVATION CORP (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $70,000 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC ($60,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$28k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$70k
Net assets
$208k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 57%
01What it does

What Michigan Street Preservation Corp does

Mission

The Michigan Street Preservation Corporation has launched a campaign to redevelop and restore the historic neighborhood around the nash house, which includes the michigan street baptist church (built in 1845), the site of the former little harlem supper club, the colored musicians club, and the numerous dwellings that made up the once thriving community.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. To promote and encourage historical research with respect to the history of the african-american community in buffalo, new york and preserve and protect sites and records of african-american historic interest.

    $0 spent

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($14k) Expenses 100 ($22k) Net assets 100 ($203k)2018 Revenue 94 ($13k) Expenses 103 ($22k) Net assets 96 ($194k)2019 Revenue 89 ($13k) Expenses 103 ($22k) Net assets 91 ($184k)2020 Revenue 37 ($5k) Expenses 103 ($22k) Net assets 82 ($167k)2021 Revenue 269 ($38k) Expenses 92 ($20k) Net assets 91 ($185k)2022 Revenue 371 ($53k) Expenses 156 ($34k) Net assets 101 ($204k)2023 Revenue 246 ($35k) Expenses 148 ($32k) Net assets 102 ($207k)2024 Revenue 198 ($28k) Expenses 129 ($28k) Net assets 102 ($208k)
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Revenue (198)Expenses (129)Net assets (102)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $185k to $204k (+10%).

$203k
$194k
$184k
$167k
$185k
$204k
$207k
$209k
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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.

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2018
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2021
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2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

98% of MICHIGAN STREET PRESERVATION CORP’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$7k
’17
−$9k
’18
−$10k
’19
−$17k
’20
$18k
’21
$19k
’22
$3k
’23
$268
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $30k → $20k.

2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 STREET PRESERVATION CORP’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 STREET PRESERVATION CORP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 STREET PRESERVATION CORP.

86%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 67% · 2023 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

100% of MICHIGAN STREET PRESERVATION CORP'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $70k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MICHIGAN STREET PRESERVATION CORP has grown faster than three-quarters of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MICHIGAN STREET PRESERVATION CORP: 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 STREET PRESERVATION CORP?
MICHIGAN STREET PRESERVATION CORP (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $70,000 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC ($60,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does MICHIGAN STREET PRESERVATION CORP have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $70,000 in grants to MICHIGAN STREET PRESERVATION CORP, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MICHIGAN STREET PRESERVATION CORP?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC is the largest funder on record, with $60,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MICHIGAN STREET PRESERVATION CORP find more funders?
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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