Michigan · Nonprofit
Piast Institute A National Institute for Polish and Polish American Affairs
Piast Institute A National Institute for Polish and Polish American Affairs (Michigan) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $126,244 to it, the largest being PREVENTION MICHIGAN ($75,302). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $510k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $126k
- Net assets
- $0
What Piast Institute A National Institute for Polish and Polish American Affairs does
Mission
The Piast Institute is a National research and policy center which serves Polish Americans & other ethnic groups and provides social services at the local level.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Historical and sociological research and disseminating articles, monographs, surveys and programs on Poland and East Central
$27,418 spent45% of program spendingDemographics and current affairs research and disseminating in support of initiative (70%) and information center to support responses to public for census data.
$20,195 spent33% of program spendingSocial services, social science to immigrants and their families and local ethnic and immigrant groups including research and data for help in building community capacity. Including prevention activities to suppor a healthy community.
$13,160 spent22% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $60,773.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $162k to $208k (+28%).
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: 2021 87% · 2022 95% · 2023 99% · 2024 41% · 2025 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Piast Institute A National Institute for Polish and Polish American Affairs’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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
Virginia Skrzyniarz
CEO CoFounder
Board chair
Dr Dominik Stecula
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $44k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 Piast Institute A National Institute for Polish and Polish American Affairs’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
Piast Institute A National Institute for Polish and Polish American Affairs leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 Piast Institute A National Institute for Polish and Polish American Affairs.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 98% · 2019 100% · 2020 89% · 2022 100% · 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
86% of Piast Institute A National Institute for Polish and Polish American Affairs's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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.
Against its field
Piast Institute A National Institute for Polish and Polish American Affairs has grown faster than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Piast Institute A National Institute for Polish and Polish American Affairs receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.3M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.3M
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 Piast Institute A National Institute for Polish and Polish American Affairs
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
75% 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 Piast Institute A National Institute for Polish and Polish American Affairs: 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 Piast Institute A National Institute for Polish and Polish American Affairs?
- Piast Institute A National Institute for Polish and Polish American Affairs (Michigan) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $126,244 to it, the largest being PREVENTION MICHIGAN ($75,302). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Piast Institute A National Institute for Polish and Polish American Affairs have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $126,244 in grants to Piast Institute A National Institute for Polish and Polish American Affairs, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Piast Institute A National Institute for Polish and Polish American Affairs?
- PREVENTION MICHIGAN is the largest funder on record, with $75,302 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Piast Institute A National Institute for Polish and Polish American Affairs 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 7 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