Michigan · Nonprofit
VENTURE CATALYSTS
VENTURE CATALYSTS (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $257,000 to it, the largest being ALLEGIS GROUP FOUNDATION INC ($150,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2019
- $419k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $257k
- Net assets
- $50k
What Venture Catalysts does
Mission
Venture Catalysts is a non-profit with the mission of building an inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystem in detroit through strategic large scale entrepreneurship events and targeted growth programs.
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990.
Program
Detroit startup week 2019 - our anchor program, detroit startup week, is now the largest free entrepreneurship event in michigan that invites all founders into metro detroit's startup ecosystem.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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 $6k to $107k (+1820%).
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.
100% of VENTURE CATALYSTS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 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
2018 → 2021: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $90k → $12k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 VENTURE CATALYSTS’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
VENTURE CATALYSTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% 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
36% 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 VENTURE CATALYSTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 83% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
VENTURE CATALYSTS draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $92k 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
VENTURE CATALYSTS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 8,357 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,357 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2019
Organizations like VENTURE CATALYSTS
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
99% 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 VENTURE CATALYSTS: 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 VENTURE CATALYSTS?
- VENTURE CATALYSTS (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $257,000 to it, the largest being ALLEGIS GROUP FOUNDATION INC ($150,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VENTURE CATALYSTS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $257,000 in grants to VENTURE CATALYSTS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VENTURE CATALYSTS?
- ALLEGIS GROUP FOUNDATION INC 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 VENTURE CATALYSTS 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 FY2019 (financials across 2018–2019), and the filings of 3 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