Michigan · Nonprofit
MOTORCITIES NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA PARTNERSHIP INC
MOTORCITIES NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA PARTNERSHIP INC (Michigan) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $260,710 to it, the largest being National Park Foundation ($204,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MOTORCITIES NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA PARTNERSHIP INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,946 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,946 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Arts Council of Greater Lansingshared funders
- Michigan Humanities Councilportfolio match
- The Herbert H & Grace a Dow Foundationportfolio match
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.
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 91% · 2018 89% · 2019 88% · 2020 87% · 2021 93% · 2022 92% · 2023 89% · 2024 74%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of MOTORCITIES NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA PARTNERSHIP INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $16k → $172k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 MOTORCITIES NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA PARTNERSHIP INC’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
MOTORCITIES NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA PARTNERSHIP INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 MOTORCITIES NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA PARTNERSHIP INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 99% · 2019 74% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 83% — 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.
Where its funders are
MOTORCITIES NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA PARTNERSHIP INC draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $36k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
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.
- Arts Council of Greater Lansingshared fundersMI · backs 11 organizations that share your funders
- Michigan Humanities Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Herbert H & Grace a Dow Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Julius H and Barbara B Beers Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Green Brick Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Richard and Jane Manoogian Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Americana Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Oleson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Partnership for the National Trails System Incshared fundersDC · backs 9 organizations that share your funders
- Detroit Economic Growth AssociationlocalMI · funds 961 organizations near you
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 MOTORCITIES NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA PARTNERSHIP INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.5M on record.
- Department of the Interior$4.5M
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 MOTORCITIES NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA PARTNERSHIP INC
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 MOTORCITIES NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA PARTNERSHIP 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.
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 MOTORCITIES NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA PARTNERSHIP INC?
- MOTORCITIES NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA PARTNERSHIP INC (Michigan) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $260,710 to it, the largest being National Park Foundation ($204,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MOTORCITIES NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA PARTNERSHIP INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $260,710 in grants to MOTORCITIES NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA PARTNERSHIP INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MOTORCITIES NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA PARTNERSHIP INC?
- National Park Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $204,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MOTORCITIES NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA PARTNERSHIP 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.
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 6funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing