Michigan · Nonprofit
University of Michigan
University of Michigan (Michigan) receives grants from 1128 organizations whose IRS filings report $604,994,894 to it, the largest being ZELL FAMILY FOUNDATION ($86,124,000). 679 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $633k
- Funders on record
- 1,128
- Grants received
- $605M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What University of Michigan does
Mission
To represent and advocate for its member physicians.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
University house officers as m.d., d.o. And d.d.s., interns and residents represented as a collective bargaining unit with respect to wages and other conditions of employement, including cooperative representation under internship studies in a medical practice environment at the University of Michigan medical hospital. The approximate total number of individuals represented is 1,257.
Educational programs designed to enrich the learning environment of the resident physicians.
Support for the collective bargaining process and continued preparation and function of the association.
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $1.2M to $1.5M (+23%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 296 funders to 417 funders, grant income rose $33M → $164M.
11 of 1128 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $45M from 3 payers (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Frances and Kenneth Eisenberg Charitable Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money University of Michigan raised.
From the IRS filings of University of Michigan’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 1128 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
University of Michigan has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 12% · 2018 24% · 2019 26% · 2020 12% · 2021 14% · 2022 12% · 2023 48% — growing more concentrated.
“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
40% of University of Michigan's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.
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
University of Michigan draws 62% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 47 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $916k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states 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.
Government funding University of Michigan receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.1M on record.
- Department of Defense$6.1M
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 University of Michigan
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.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for University of Michigan: 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. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds University of Michigan?
- University of Michigan (Michigan) receives grants from 1128 organizations whose IRS filings report $604,994,894 to it, the largest being ZELL FAMILY FOUNDATION ($86,124,000). 679 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does University of Michigan have?
- IRS filings report 1128 organizations giving $604,994,894 in grants to University of Michigan, 679 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of University of Michigan?
- ZELL FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $86,124,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like University of Michigan 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 1128 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing