Michigan · Nonprofit
SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC SPACES
SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC SPACES (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,870,000 to it, the largest being THE RALPH C WILSON JR FOUNDATION ($7,700,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.7M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $9.9M
- Net assets
- $7.6M
What Southeast Michigan Foundation for Public Spaces does
Mission
Southeast Michigan Foundation for Public Spaces supports the community foundation for southeast michigan (cfsem) by supporting organizations whose work furthers cfsem's mission. The community foundation for southeast michigan's mission is to build the resources, relationships and expertise required to expand equitable access to opportunities across southeast michigan to make it a desirable place to live, work and play for all residents, today and tomorrow.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
This entity had no activity for 2023
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC SPACES’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
SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC SPACES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% 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
“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 SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC SPACES's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
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
SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC SPACES receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $9.9M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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In Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC SPACES: 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 SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC SPACES?
- SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC SPACES (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,870,000 to it, the largest being THE RALPH C WILSON JR FOUNDATION ($7,700,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC SPACES have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $9,870,000 in grants to SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC SPACES.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC SPACES?
- THE RALPH C WILSON JR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,700,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC SPACES 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 3 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