Michigan · Nonprofit
VENTURE NORTH FUNDING AND DEVELOPMENT
VENTURE NORTH FUNDING AND DEVELOPMENT (Michigan) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,318,705 to it, the largest being CONSUMERS ENERGY FOUNDATION ($600,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year. VENTURE NORTH FUNDING AND DEVELOPMENT administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
VENTURE NORTH FUNDING AND DEVELOPMENT administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programVENTURE NORTH FUNDING AND DEVELOPMENT runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$61k
Recipients
6
Contributions on record
$1.4M
Donors on record
15
Payments out are 0.04x the contributions on record, so the balance accumulates rather than passing straight through.
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.
- Jim and Diana Huckle Family Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Oleson Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Charlevoix County Community Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
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.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 50% · 2018 45% · 2019 5% · 2020 1% · 2021 23% · 2024 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $5k → $135k.
6 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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: $118k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Rotary Charities of Traverse City). These are real filings, and they are not money VENTURE NORTH FUNDING AND DEVELOPMENT raised.
From the IRS filings of VENTURE NORTH FUNDING AND DEVELOPMENT’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
94% of VENTURE NORTH FUNDING AND DEVELOPMENT's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $274k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
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. Your 13 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Jim and Diana Huckle Family Foundationlocalportfolio matchDE · funds 30 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Oleson Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchMI · backs 49 organizations that share your funders · funds 78 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Charlevoix County Community Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchMI · backs 35 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Green Brick Foundation Inclocalportfolio matchMI · funds 35 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Wbd Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Michigan Nonprofit Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Michigan Civic Education Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Orsa Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- C K Blandin Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Art and Mary Schmuckal Family Foundationshared funderslocalMI · backs 37 organizations that share your funders · funds 67 organizations near you
- The Sebastian Foundationshared fundersMI · backs 27 organizations that share your funders
- Road Runners Club of America Traverse City Track Club InclocalMI · funds 18 organizations near you
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.
Government funding VENTURE NORTH FUNDING AND DEVELOPMENT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.2M on record.
- Department of the Treasury$829k
- Department of Agriculture$331k
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VENTURE NORTH FUNDING AND DEVELOPMENT: 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 VENTURE NORTH FUNDING AND DEVELOPMENT?
- VENTURE NORTH FUNDING AND DEVELOPMENT (Michigan) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,318,705 to it, the largest being CONSUMERS ENERGY FOUNDATION ($600,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year. VENTURE NORTH FUNDING AND DEVELOPMENT administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does VENTURE NORTH FUNDING AND DEVELOPMENT have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,318,705 in grants to VENTURE NORTH FUNDING AND DEVELOPMENT, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VENTURE NORTH FUNDING AND DEVELOPMENT?
- CONSUMERS ENERGY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VENTURE NORTH FUNDING AND DEVELOPMENT 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 13funders 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