Skip to content
Plinth
← Funding

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.

$7.7M
Revenue FY2024
3
Funders on record
$9.9M
Grants received
$7.6M
Net assets
0/3 repeat funders

Against its field

SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC SPACES receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $9.9M to it.

Operating margin98% · outside the comparable range
Months of reserve0.0mo · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 0 ($0) Expenses 0 ($0) Net assets 0 ($0)2024 Revenue 100 ($7.7M) Expenses 100 ($142k) Net assets 100 ($7.6M)
20202024
Revenue (100)Expenses (100)Net assets (100)

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$0
20
$7.6M
24
0.0
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

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

78%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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.

MI

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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 3 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC SPACES

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Michigan

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

0% of spending goes to programs.

Program 0%Management 100%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
71%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MI

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.

A paid feature, included from the $75 plan up. Sign in to download.

Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

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 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing