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SPHINX ORGANIZATION INC

SPHINX ORGANIZATION INC (Michigan) receives grants from 105 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,280,567 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,826,805). 68 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$9.2M
Revenue FY2025
105
Funders on record
$31M
Grants received
$26M
Net assets
68/105 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 70%

Against its field

SPHINX ORGANIZATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin21% · top quartile
Months of reserve2.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($7.0M) Expenses 100 ($5.0M) Net assets 100 ($9.8M)2018 Revenue 70 ($4.9M) Expenses 83 ($4.2M) Net assets 106 ($10M)2019 Revenue 107 ($7.5M) Expenses 91 ($4.5M) Net assets 142 ($14M)2020 Revenue 47 ($3.3M) Expenses 80 ($4.0M) Net assets 141 ($14M)2021 Revenue 203 ($14M) Expenses 87 ($4.4M) Net assets 239 ($23M)2022 Revenue 113 ($7.9M) Expenses 120 ($6.0M) Net assets 232 ($23M)2023 Revenue 108 ($7.6M) Expenses 143 ($7.2M) Net assets 247 ($24M)2024 Revenue 99 ($6.9M) Expenses 158 ($7.9M) Net assets 236 ($23M)2025 Revenue 132 ($9.2M) Expenses 146 ($7.3M) Net assets 262 ($26M)
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Revenue (132)Expenses (146)Net assets (262)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 5% · 2021 3% · 2022 3% · 2023 2% · 2024 2% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

83% of SPHINX ORGANIZATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,374 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$2.0M
17
$710k
18
$3.0M
19
$705k
20
$9.9M
21
$1.9M
22
$424k
23
$992k
24
$1.9M
25
2.1
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 25 funders to 52 funders, grant income rose $2.3M → $3.8M.

13 of 105 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)27% 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 SPHINX ORGANIZATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 105 funders by total. 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

SPHINX ORGANIZATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

30% 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 SPHINX ORGANIZATION INC.

22%
largest funder
49%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 35% · 2019 57% · 2020 24% · 2021 66% · 2022 18% · 2023 21%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.

How long its funders stay

56% of SPHINX ORGANIZATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

SPHINX ORGANIZATION INC draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 22 states in all.

VT
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IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
NV
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
VA
DE
TN
NC
DC
TX
FL

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

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Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 statesis 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.

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 105 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.

Government funding SPHINX ORGANIZATION INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $830k on record.

Federal$830k
grants $830kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$830k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like SPHINX ORGANIZATION INC

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

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 3%Fundraising 8%

Governance

20
board members
95%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

59%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 2 states

MI
NY

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SPHINX ORGANIZATION 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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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 SPHINX ORGANIZATION INC?
SPHINX ORGANIZATION INC (Michigan) receives grants from 105 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,280,567 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,826,805). 68 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SPHINX ORGANIZATION INC have?
IRS filings report 105 organizations giving $31,280,567 in grants to SPHINX ORGANIZATION INC, 68 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SPHINX ORGANIZATION INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $6,826,805 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SPHINX ORGANIZATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 105funders 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