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POPPS PACKING

POPPS PACKING (Michigan) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $170,500 to it, the largest being THE KRESGE FOUNDATION ($65,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2026
$145k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$171k
Net assets
$26k
3/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 29%
01What it does

What Popps Packing does

Mission

To create impactful arts programming and foster cultural exchange between local and international artist communities, while leveraging the unique features of the region, neighborhood, and personal practices

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. The carpenter creative corridor is a decentralized community art school that offers free public art classes for all, with partner organizations and artists from within the neighborhood.

    $65,503 spent
    63% of program spending
  2. Camp carpenter is an outdoor adventure day camp for neighborhood youth, from ages 7 through 14, set in and around Popps Packing's dynamic buildings, art installations, and green spaces.

    $7,026 spent
    7% of program spending
  3. The neighborhood beautification project is a micro development project that transforms vacant city lots into community green spaces for all to use.

    $11,119 spent
    11% of program spending
  4. The Popps Packing artists in residency program offers emerging and established local, national, and international artists time and space to develop new works and projects within the organization's studio and neighborhood. Artists are offered professional development, as well as exhibition and networking opportunities, to grow their artistic practice.

    $21,035 spent
    20% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $104,683.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($240k) Expenses 100 ($132k) Net assets 100 ($114k)2020 Revenue 29 ($70k) Expenses 62 ($81k) Net assets 90 ($103k)2021 Revenue 14 ($33k) Expenses 40 ($52k) Net assets 73 ($84k)2022 Revenue 14 ($34k) Expenses 46 ($61k) Net assets 50 ($57k)2025 Revenue 47 ($113k) Expenses 85 ($112k) Net assets 10 ($12k)2026 Revenue 61 ($145k) Expenses 97 ($128k) Net assets 22 ($26k)
201920202021202220252026
Revenue (61)Expenses (97)Net assets (22)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 $84k to $57k (−32%).

$127k
$103k
$84k
$57k
$12k
$26k
201920202021202220252026
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2025
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

92% of POPPS PACKING’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,618 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$108k
’19
−$12k
’20
−$19k
’21
−$27k
’22
$948
’25
$17k
’26
1.1
months of
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

Faina Lerman

Executive director and president

Board chair

Bridget Michael

Chairperson and treasurer

As listed on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.

20192026
Listed77
Joined··
No longer listed··
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $17k → $2k.

2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 POPPS PACKING’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

POPPS PACKING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

51% 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 POPPS PACKING.

38%
largest funder
65%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 90% · 2019 55% · 2020 50% · 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.

How long its funders stay

0% of POPPS PACKING's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 30% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

85% of POPPS PACKING's grant income comes from Michigan funders.

MI
CA
MD

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’23
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

POPPS PACKING runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 630 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin12% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−7% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 630 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026

Government funding POPPS PACKING receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.

Federal$10k
grants $10kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$10k

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 POPPS PACKING

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

05Profile & governance

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

Public support

91%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MI

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for POPPS PACKING: 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 POPPS PACKING?
POPPS PACKING (Michigan) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $170,500 to it, the largest being THE KRESGE FOUNDATION ($65,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does POPPS PACKING have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $170,500 in grants to POPPS PACKING, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of POPPS PACKING?
THE KRESGE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $65,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like POPPS PACKING 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 FY2026 (financials across 2019–2026), and the filings of 10 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