Michigan · Nonprofit
Real People Media Inc
Real People Media Inc (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,950 to it, the largest being MICHIGAN HUMANITIES COUNCIL ($35,950). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $82k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $70k
- Net assets
- $253k
What Real People Media Inc does
Mission
To help people share their stories through the literary, visual, performing and media arts.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Real People Media performed and recorded 4 new episodes of The Red Jacket Jamboree for later radio broadcast. Two radio networks aired Real People Media programming. Together, Interlochen Public Radio and WNMU Public Radio 90 broadcast four hourlong episodes of The Red Jacket Jamboree. These networks cover the entire western half of the Upper Peninsula and the North West Lower Peninsula, reaching tens of thousands of listeners.
$32,566 spentof which $4,000 as grants57% of program spendingIn 2024, Real People Media was able to launch a new program called Animating the Copper Country with support of the Michigan Humanities Council. 7 Copper Country residents shared their unique stories to be animating by participating artists. The program was presented to youth participating in the Big Annie Klobucher project and residents of the Bluffs senior living community. This is an ongoing program of Real People Media.
$8,070 spent14% of program spendingThe Keweenaw Storytelling Center and exhibits was open throughout the year including during major festivals including PastyFest, Copper Dog 150, and Ladies Night . In all, more than a thousand people enjoyed RPMs live events and exhibits.
$16,045 spent28% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $56,681.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $206k to $275k (+33%).
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.
91% of Real People Media Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $7k → $20k.
From the IRS filings of Real People Media 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
Real People Media Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
60% 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 Real People Media Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 64% · 2022 63% · 2023 75% — 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
60% of Real People Media Inc's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Real People Media Inc's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like Real People Media Inc
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Real People Media 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Real People Media Inc?
- Real People Media Inc (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,950 to it, the largest being MICHIGAN HUMANITIES COUNCIL ($35,950). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Real People Media Inc have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $69,950 in grants to Real People Media Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Real People Media Inc?
- MICHIGAN HUMANITIES COUNCIL is the largest funder on record, with $35,950 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Real People Media 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 4 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