Michigan · Nonprofit
TRANSIT MATTERS TRANSIT MATTERS-MI
TRANSIT MATTERS TRANSIT MATTERS-MI (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $175,000 to it, the largest being Michigan Energy First ($150,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- Citizens for Energizing Michigan's Economyshared fundersportfolio match
- American Public Transportation Associationportfolio match
- Michigan Civic Action Fundportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $50k → $25k.
From the IRS filings of TRANSIT MATTERS TRANSIT MATTERS-MI’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
TRANSIT MATTERS TRANSIT MATTERS-MI leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% 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
100% 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 TRANSIT MATTERS TRANSIT MATTERS-MI.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
86% of TRANSIT MATTERS TRANSIT MATTERS-MI's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
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.
- Citizens for Energizing Michigan's Economyshared fundersportfolio matchMI · backs 16 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- American Public Transportation Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Michigan Civic Action Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Michigan Public Employees Benefit Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Michigan Voicesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Michigan League of Conservation Voters Education Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Art and Mary Schmuckal Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Progress Michigan Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Uaw Michigan Community Action Programportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mt Clemens Rotary Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rotary Charities of Traverse Cityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The William R Orthwein Jr and Laura Rand Orthwein Foundation Incshared fundersMO · backs 6 organizations that share your funders
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 TRANSIT MATTERS TRANSIT MATTERS-MI
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TRANSIT MATTERS TRANSIT MATTERS-MI: 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.
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 TRANSIT MATTERS TRANSIT MATTERS-MI?
- TRANSIT MATTERS TRANSIT MATTERS-MI (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $175,000 to it, the largest being Michigan Energy First ($150,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TRANSIT MATTERS TRANSIT MATTERS-MI have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $175,000 in grants to TRANSIT MATTERS TRANSIT MATTERS-MI, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRANSIT MATTERS TRANSIT MATTERS-MI?
- Michigan Energy First is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRANSIT MATTERS TRANSIT MATTERS-MI 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 2funders 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