Michigan · Nonprofit
Midland Center for the Arts Inc
Midland Center for the Arts Inc (Michigan) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,973,580 to it, the largest being DOW COMPANY FOUNDATION ($7,000,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $20M
- Net assets
- $124M
What Midland Center for the Arts Inc does
Mission
To entertain, educate and inspire a diverse and expanding regional audiences in the arts, sciences and humanities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
To present various programs that support the mission fo the Center, that includes program expenses and general operations to support those programs. Expenses incurred provide technical services and equipment to operate two theatres, two museums and education activities, marketing and Center magazine expenses, visitor services, box office and house services, and special events.
$6,819,090 spent$4,385,960 earned by the program82% of program spendingTo provide facilities, staff, and other resources to carry out the mission of the organization through the presentation, sponsorship, and support of performances, exhibitions, and cultural activities.
$1,518,135 spent18% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,337,225.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $72M to $90M (+24%).
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: 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 0% · 2021 14% · 2022 7% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
35% of Midland Center for the Arts Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Matthew Travis
CEO
Board chair
Jenifer Acosta
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $211k → $7.2M.
10 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $44k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Middle Michigan Development Corporation). These are real filings, and they are not money Midland Center for the Arts Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Midland Center for the Arts Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 funders by total. 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
Midland Center for the Arts Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 43% · 2019 38% · 2020 56% · 2021 40% · 2022 45% · 2023 35% — diversifying over time.
“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
54% of Midland Center for the Arts Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
93% of Midland Center for the Arts Inc's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M 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.
Against its field
Midland Center for the Arts Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 570 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding Midland Center for the Arts Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3k on record.
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$3k
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 Midland Center for the Arts Inc
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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
51%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Center Hospitality LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Midland Center for the Arts Inc: 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 Midland Center for the Arts Inc?
- Midland Center for the Arts Inc (Michigan) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,973,580 to it, the largest being DOW COMPANY FOUNDATION ($7,000,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Midland Center for the Arts Inc have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $19,973,580 in grants to Midland Center for the Arts Inc, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Midland Center for the Arts Inc?
- DOW COMPANY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Midland Center for the Arts Inc 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 38 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing