Michigan · Nonprofit
THE SAARINEN FOUNDATION
THE SAARINEN FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being GILBERT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $20
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $147
What The Saarinen Foundation does
Program
To protect and preserve valuable historical architectural materials by featuring these assets in documentary films. The films will be used as educational materials to enhance architectural educational programs and provide materials that would not otherwise be accessible to the public or architectural students.
$1,570 spent
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2018 to 2019, from $40 to $5k (+12650%).
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.
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 THE SAARINEN FOUNDATION’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.
Where its funders are
100% of THE SAARINEN FOUNDATION'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
THE SAARINEN FOUNDATION receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like THE SAARINEN FOUNDATION
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE SAARINEN FOUNDATION: 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 SAARINEN FOUNDATION?
- THE SAARINEN FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being GILBERT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE SAARINEN FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,000 in grants to THE SAARINEN FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of THE SAARINEN FOUNDATION?
- GILBERT FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE SAARINEN FOUNDATION 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 1 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