Michigan · Nonprofit
Protecting Michigan Foundation
Protecting Michigan Foundation (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $112,250 to it, the largest being Promise to the People Fund ($102,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Protecting Michigan Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 14,813 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,813 human services nonprofits under $100k, 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.
- The Sheila Dave & Sherry Gold Foundation CO Jeff Goldshared funders
- Citizens for Energizing Michigan's Economyportfolio match
- Michigan Energy Firstportfolio match
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.
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.
100% of Protecting Michigan Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $250 → $112k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 Protecting Michigan Foundation’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
Protecting Michigan Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% 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 Protecting Michigan Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 91% — 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
100% of Protecting Michigan Foundation'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 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.
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.
- The Sheila Dave & Sherry Gold Foundation CO Jeff Goldshared fundersCA · backs 11 organizations that share your funders
- Citizens for Energizing Michigan's Economyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Michigan Energy Firstportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Michigan Civic Action Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Progress Michigan Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Michigan Public Employees Benefit Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Michigan Voicesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Michigan Civic Education Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Promote the Vote Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Uaw Michigan Community Action Programportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Michigan League of Conservation Voters Education Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- St John Providenceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Organizations like Protecting Michigan Foundation
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.
Public support
0%
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 Protecting Michigan Foundation: 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 Protecting Michigan Foundation?
- Protecting Michigan Foundation (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $112,250 to it, the largest being Promise to the People Fund ($102,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Protecting Michigan Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $112,250 in grants to Protecting Michigan Foundation.
- Who is the largest funder of Protecting Michigan Foundation?
- Promise to the People Fund is the largest funder on record, with $102,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Protecting Michigan Foundation 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 3funders 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