Michigan · Nonprofit
MICHIGAN TRANSIT MUSEUM
MICHIGAN TRANSIT MUSEUM (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $839 to it, the largest being MT CLEMENS ROTARY FOUNDATION ($625). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $55k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $839
- Net assets
- $154k
What Michigan Transit Museum does
Mission
To educate the public on the history of transit and railroading in Southeast Michigan by operating the historic Mount Clemens Railway Depot Museum located in the City of Mount Clemens Michigan Historic District and operation of tourist train on the historic Michigan sugar beet tracks.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Operation of the historic Mount Clemens Railway Depot museum and grounds located in the City of Mount Clemens Michigan Historic District. Displays of archives, library and educational exhibits viewed by more than 775 individuals in the former Grand Trunk Railroad station built in 1859.
$6,354 spent21% of program spendingOperation of tourist railroad for in excess of 2,900 passengers utilizing vintage diesel locomotives, rapid transit and interurban coaches on the historic sugar beet line.
$24,324 spent78% of program spendingPublication of quarterly newsletter for members and other historic organizations. Most costs were paid by the editor this year.
$315 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $30,993.
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 2017 to 2018, from $135k to $174k (+29%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $52 → $66.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 TRANSIT MUSEUM’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 TRANSIT MUSEUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% 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 TRANSIT MUSEUM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 93% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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 TRANSIT MUSEUM's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $214 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 TRANSIT MUSEUM
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.
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MICHIGAN TRANSIT MUSEUM: 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 TRANSIT MUSEUM?
- MICHIGAN TRANSIT MUSEUM (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $839 to it, the largest being MT CLEMENS ROTARY FOUNDATION ($625). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MICHIGAN TRANSIT MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $839 in grants to MICHIGAN TRANSIT MUSEUM, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MICHIGAN TRANSIT MUSEUM?
- MT CLEMENS ROTARY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $625 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MICHIGAN TRANSIT MUSEUM 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 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