Michigan · Nonprofit
WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY
WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY (Michigan) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,608,241 to it, the largest being MID-AMERICAN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE INC ($32,849,096). 33 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.
- Richard Baidas Memorial Scholarshipportfolio match
- Fred & Florence Dengler Scholarship Fundportfolio match
- Cooper-Standard Foundation Incportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 55 funders by total. Association, not causation.
How concentrated its funding is
WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
How long its funders stay
38% of WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY'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
WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 19 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
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.
- Richard Baidas Memorial Scholarshipportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fred & Florence Dengler Scholarship Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cooper-Standard Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Myer & Lois Franklin Charitable Trportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Parkinson Voice Project Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pa Education Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Council of Graduate Schoolsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Space Grant Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Councils for Internationalportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lyle B & Wanda K Ganyard Scholarship Trportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $277.1M on record — $276.5M federal, $596k state.
- Department of Education$179.9M
- National Science Foundation$40.8M
- Department of Health and Human Services$25.1M
- Department of Energy$18.9M
- Department of the Interior$3.9M
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$3.6M
- OR$221k
- VT$160k
- FL$128k
- OK$54k
- NJ$34k
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 WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY: 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 WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY?
- WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY (Michigan) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,608,241 to it, the largest being MID-AMERICAN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE INC ($32,849,096). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $17,608,241 in grants to WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY?
- MID-AMERICAN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE INC is the largest funder on record, with $32,849,096 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY 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, and the filings of 55funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing