Michigan · Nonprofit
Reach Studio Art Center
Reach Studio Art Center (Michigan) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $433,159 to it, the largest being CAPITAL REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($135,235). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $495k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $433k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Reach Studio Art Center does
Mission
A non-profit community art studio located in the REO Town District of Lansing Michigan, offering out-of-school visual art education for youth of all ages (2-18), and adults from the Greater Lansing Area, taught by local artists and art educators.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Out-of-school art classes & creative programs: REACH offers weekly arts education classes and workshops for youth and adults, year- round in four 8-week terms at our Lansing studio. Classes focus on skill-building in various visual arts disciplines, including ceramics, painting, drawing, digital arts, fiber arts, and mixed media. All fee-based youth classes are offered on a sliding scale based on household income.
$158,184 spent$84,372 earned by the program53% of program spendingSummer Camps: REACH offers seven weeks of summer camps from June through August for youth ages 6-15. Camps run Monday through Friday, with both morning and afternoon sessions available. Programs are taught by local artists and arts educators covering a range of artistic media. Regular sessions are offered for a fee, with full and partial scholarships available. REACH also offers an additional two weeks of free afternoon camp for youth ages 4-17 who reside within the Lansing School District.
$52,809 spent$41,451 earned by the program18% of program spendingArt Truck: The REACH Art Truck delivers off-site arts programming throughout the year. REACH partners with community organizations to provide art activities during their summer camps and out-of-school programs. Each summer, the Art Truck offers approximately 50 hours of free arts programming, in addition to regular contracted programs with partner organizations. Art Truck also provides free art activities at local festivals and community events.
$31,062 spent$48,226 earned by the program10% of program spendingPartnership with Lansing School District: REACH partners with the Lansing School District to provide arts-based after-school programming and host after-school arts clubs for elementary, middle, and high school students.
$20,000 spent$20,000 earned by the program7% of program spendingCreative Connections: Each week during REACHs four 8-week terms, we host Walk in Wednesday-a free, multigenerational drop-in program. Activities are accessible to all ages and abilities and include basic art instruction and a take-and-make art project. REACH also hosts open houses throughout the year, offering free creative experiences for the community.
$32,729 spent$1,305 earned by the program11% of program spendingExhibition space: REACH maintains a gallery space that showcases student artwork and hosts regular exhibitions featuring local artists. Most exhibitions include an artist talk or an opening reception that is free and open to the public.
$5,900 spent2% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $300,684.
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 2018 to 2019, from $1.1M to $1.2M (+14%).
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 21% · 2018 26% · 2019 15% · 2020 39% · 2021 17% · 2022 26% · 2023 28% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
50% of Reach Studio Art Center’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% 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
Melissa Keeley
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $25k → $21k.
4 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 Reach Studio Art Center’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
Reach Studio Art Center has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
67% 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 Reach Studio Art Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 73% · 2019 60% · 2020 54% · 2021 59% · 2022 40% · 2023 36% — 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
38% of Reach Studio Art Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
97% of Reach Studio Art Center's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $178k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Reach Studio Art Center runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Reach Studio Art Center
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
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
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 Reach Studio Art Center: 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 Reach Studio Art Center?
- Reach Studio Art Center (Michigan) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $433,159 to it, the largest being CAPITAL REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($135,235). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Reach Studio Art Center have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $433,159 in grants to Reach Studio Art Center, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Reach Studio Art Center?
- CAPITAL REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $135,235 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Reach Studio Art Center 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 14 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