Michigan · Nonprofit
SOCIETY FOR HISTORY AND RACIAL EQUITY
SOCIETY FOR HISTORY AND RACIAL EQUITY (Michigan) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,202,512 to it, the largest being THE RONDA E STRYKER AND WILLIAM D JOHNSTON FOUNDATION ($725,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $478k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $596k
What Society for History and Racial Equity does
Mission
To research and document african american history and promote racial equity
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
The summit on racism and youth summit are annual events that are open to the public. The youth summit was moderated by former student interns of share. Our panelists were from four local high schools in the southwest region. The panel focused on unaddressed racism in the curriculum and classrooms. Students were able to speak out about stereotypes and myths that are spoken about in the southwest region, school districts about students of color, and how we as a community can combat that. This conversation was a way to help students reflect on the impacts of racism and publicly speak to the gaps and disparities in the school system. The summit on racism was formatted into six sessions. Speakers were asked to focus on key specialty areas: racial equity in housing, financial literacy, economic development, cultural competencies, and mobilization and action steps to eliminating racism in kalamazoo. The conversations were designed to build awareness of racial disparities and provide opportunities for continued discussion, networking, and building community partnerships.
$65,963 spent$2,555 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $65,963.
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 2022 to 2023, from $330k to $613k (+86%).
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.
96% of SOCIETY FOR HISTORY AND RACIAL EQUITY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Trice Batson
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $66k → $193k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 SOCIETY FOR HISTORY AND RACIAL EQUITY’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
SOCIETY FOR HISTORY AND RACIAL EQUITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
37% 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 SOCIETY FOR HISTORY AND RACIAL EQUITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 70% · 2020 81% · 2021 64% · 2022 95% · 2023 52% — 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 SOCIETY FOR HISTORY AND RACIAL EQUITY's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $444k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
SOCIETY FOR HISTORY AND RACIAL EQUITY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,174 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,174 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like SOCIETY FOR HISTORY AND RACIAL EQUITY
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
33% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
44%
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 SOCIETY FOR HISTORY AND RACIAL EQUITY: 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 SOCIETY FOR HISTORY AND RACIAL EQUITY?
- SOCIETY FOR HISTORY AND RACIAL EQUITY (Michigan) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,202,512 to it, the largest being THE RONDA E STRYKER AND WILLIAM D JOHNSTON FOUNDATION ($725,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOCIETY FOR HISTORY AND RACIAL EQUITY have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $1,202,512 in grants to SOCIETY FOR HISTORY AND RACIAL EQUITY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOCIETY FOR HISTORY AND RACIAL EQUITY?
- THE RONDA E STRYKER AND WILLIAM D JOHNSTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $725,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOCIETY FOR HISTORY AND RACIAL EQUITY 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), 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