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SATELLITE COLLECTIVE INC

SATELLITE COLLECTIVE INC (Michigan) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $486,252 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($351,722). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$539k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$486k
Net assets
$3k
2/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 60%
01What it does

What Satellite Collective Inc does

Mission

To promote and foster the arts through performance and public education, with a particular emphasis on an integration of various art forms, including dance, music, the visual arts and written and spoken word.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Orbit Fellows Program : Launched Satellite Fellowships Pilot Program in 2021, and continued to successfully grow it in 2026 with the addition of several new film programs which increased program revenues overall.

    $917,724 spent$961,389 earned by the program
    94% of program spending
  2. Production of media and content with regional partners focused on arts underserved communities; a great program success in 2025 was the opening of "The American Yes" in New York City.

    $53,913 spent$95,476 earned by the program
    6% of program spending
  3. Public performance for arts underserved communities in West Michigan utilizing historic industrial structures to create arts venues. The venue won Best Venue for ArtPrize.

    $5,800 spent
    1% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $977,437.

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 ($97k) Expenses 100 ($94k) Net assets 100 ($3k)2020 Revenue 69 ($67k) Expenses 71 ($67k) Net assets 100 ($3k)2021 Revenue 110 ($107k) Expenses 107 ($101k) Net assets 382 ($11k)2022 Revenue 411 ($399k) Expenses 419 ($396k) Net assets 289 ($8k)2023 Revenue 171 ($166k) Expenses 172 ($162k) Net assets 594 ($17k)2024 Revenue 555 ($539k) Expenses 584 ($552k) Net assets 107 ($3k)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (555)Expenses (584)Net assets (107)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 $11k to $30k (+179%).

$3k
$3k
$11k
$30k
$17k
$3k
201920202021202220232024
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
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of SATELLITE COLLECTIVE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$3k
’19
$0
’20
$6k
’21
$3k
’22
$3k
’23
−$14k
’24
0.0
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

Lora Robertson

Executive Director, Director Class I (acting Treasurer)

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202220232024
Listed666
Joined·+0+0
No longer listed·00
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income held at $15k.

3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 91% 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 SATELLITE COLLECTIVE 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

SATELLITE COLLECTIVE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

94% 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 SATELLITE COLLECTIVE INC.

72%
largest funder
91%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 67% · 2020 63% · 2022 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

91% of SATELLITE COLLECTIVE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $45k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Michigan, across 2 states.

NY
CA

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

’19
’20
’22
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $441k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SATELLITE COLLECTIVE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−3% · below the median
Months of reserve0.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)41% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like SATELLITE COLLECTIVE INC

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In Michigan

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 10%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

87%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds SATELLITE COLLECTIVE INC?
SATELLITE COLLECTIVE INC (Michigan) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $486,252 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($351,722). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SATELLITE COLLECTIVE INC have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $486,252 in grants to SATELLITE COLLECTIVE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SATELLITE COLLECTIVE INC?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $351,722 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SATELLITE COLLECTIVE 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.

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 6 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