Michigan · Nonprofit
VOTERS FOR TRANSPARENCY AND TERM LIMITS
VOTERS FOR TRANSPARENCY AND TERM LIMITS (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $230,000 to it, the largest being Michigan Energy First ($200,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $0
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $230k
- Net assets
- $0
What Voters for Transparency and Term Limits does
Mission
To operate exclusively for the promotion of civic action and social welfare by promoting the common good and general welfare of the residents of, and visitors to the State of Michigan; to support public policies on the federal, state, and local levels, that will bring about civic betterments and social improvements to Michigan residents; to support activities and programs that improve the quality and effectiveness of government for the State of Michigan; to promote, encourage and advocate citizen participation in political events, civic events and activities, and governmental events and associated activities; to promote charitable causes, including lessening the burdens of government in the State of Michigan; and to receive and administer funds to sponsor, conduct research, secure goods and services, or to hold events in conjunction with the promotion of these purposes.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
no program services were provided during the 2023 calendar year
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $810 to $0 (−100%).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $210k → $20k.
From the IRS filings of VOTERS FOR TRANSPARENCY AND TERM LIMITS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 4 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
VOTERS FOR TRANSPARENCY AND TERM LIMITS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% 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 VOTERS FOR TRANSPARENCY AND TERM LIMITS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 95% · 2023 50% — diversifying over time.
“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
100% of VOTERS FOR TRANSPARENCY AND TERM LIMITS'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.
Organizations like VOTERS FOR TRANSPARENCY AND TERM LIMITS
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 VOTERS FOR TRANSPARENCY AND TERM LIMITS: 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 VOTERS FOR TRANSPARENCY AND TERM LIMITS?
- VOTERS FOR TRANSPARENCY AND TERM LIMITS (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $230,000 to it, the largest being Michigan Energy First ($200,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VOTERS FOR TRANSPARENCY AND TERM LIMITS have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $230,000 in grants to VOTERS FOR TRANSPARENCY AND TERM LIMITS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VOTERS FOR TRANSPARENCY AND TERM LIMITS?
- Michigan Energy First is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VOTERS FOR TRANSPARENCY AND TERM LIMITS 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 FY2023 (financials across 2022–2023), and the filings of 4 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