Michigan · Nonprofit
THE JEFFERSON PROJECT
THE JEFFERSON PROJECT (Michigan) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $155,200 to it, the largest being THE KANTZLER FOUNDATION ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $248k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $155k
- Net assets
- $298k
What The Jefferson Project does
Mission
We are a community for all to create together. Through placemaking, public art, and community centered design, we shape spaces where people gather, create and connect.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
We are a community for all to create together. Through placemaking, public art, and community centered design, we shape spaces where people gather, create and connect.
$9,425 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $9,425.
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
Avram Golden
Executive director
Board chair
Tara Welch
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 THE JEFFERSON PROJECT’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
THE JEFFERSON PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 90%; 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 THE JEFFERSON PROJECT's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
THE JEFFERSON PROJECT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,934 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,934 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE JEFFERSON PROJECT
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
36% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE JEFFERSON PROJECT: 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 THE JEFFERSON PROJECT?
- THE JEFFERSON PROJECT (Michigan) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $155,200 to it, the largest being THE KANTZLER FOUNDATION ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE JEFFERSON PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $155,200 in grants to THE JEFFERSON PROJECT, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE JEFFERSON PROJECT?
- THE KANTZLER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE JEFFERSON PROJECT 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 FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 5 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