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← CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION

Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION.

Totals

Total revenue
$3,459,491
Total expenses
$3,188,127
Contributions and grants received
$2,703,080
Grants paid
$801,140
Program service revenue
$16,146
Investment income
$23,700
Other revenue
$716,565
Total assets, end of year
$9,848,725
Total liabilities, end of year
$7,711,679
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$2,137,046
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$2,576,817
Management and general expenses
$611,310
Fundraising expenses
$0
Program service expenses (Part III)
$2,576,817

Program services were 80.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $2,437,909

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $265,171

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Project revenue

    total $16,146 · related or exempt $16,146

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $23,700 · excluded $23,700

  • 6a · Gross rents

    real property $716,565

  • 6b · Less rental expenses

    real property $0

  • 6c · Rental income or loss

    real property $716,565

  • 6d · Net rental income or loss

    total $716,565 · related or exempt $716,565

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $801,140 · program services $801,140

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $193,058 · program services $96,529 · management and general $96,529

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $462,517 · program services $353,304 · management and general $109,213

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $20,418 · program services $15,117 · management and general $5,301

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $19,003 · program services $15,341 · management and general $3,662

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $51,189 · program services $36,235 · management and general $14,954

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $4,881 · program services $1,502 · management and general $3,379

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $101,367 · program services $31,201 · management and general $70,166

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $183,993 · program services $56,627 · management and general $127,366

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $65,815 · program services $20,256 · management and general $45,559

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $91,916 · program services $64,658 · management and general $27,258

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $988,821 · program services $921,253 · management and general $67,568

  • 17 · Travel

    total $22,220 · program services $6,839 · management and general $15,381

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $154,393 · program services $143,843 · management and general $10,550

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $17,316 · program services $5,329 · management and general $11,987

  • 24a · Other expenses: Bad debt expense

    total $6,560 · program services $6,560

  • 24b · Other expenses: Miscellaneous

    total $3,520 · program services $1,083 · management and general $2,437

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year -$291,803 · end of year -$383,223

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $2,528,025 · end of year $934,581

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    end of year $38,783

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $83,911 · end of year $50,334

  • 7 · Other notes and loans receivable

    beginning of year $1 · end of year $1

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $2,434,762

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $729,838

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $1,854,618 · end of year $1,704,924

  • 12 · Investments: other securities

    beginning of year $10,262 · end of year $10,220

  • 14 · Intangible assets

    end of year $161,154

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $7,488,769 · end of year $7,331,951

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $223,742 · end of year $86,775

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    beginning of year $2,041,262 · end of year $236,112

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $7,543,097 · end of year $7,388,792

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $1,865,682 · end of year $2,137,046

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

To receive, administer, and distribute funds to promote and encourage research, scholarship, creative activities, and other applied research and technology at CMU.

  • ASSISTED VARIOUS COMPANIES BY PROVIDING THEM WITH MARKET RESEARCH AND START UP SUPPORT.

    Expenses $2,576,817 · Grants $801,140 · Revenue $732,711

As filed on the 2024 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Neil MacKinnon

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Mary Hill

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Toby Roth

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Paula Lancaster

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Julie Messing

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Shawna Patterson-Stephens

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Patricia Franklin-Lindsey

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Melissa Skalitzky

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Darren Werner

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dan Ward

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jeff Stoutenburg

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Bob Johnson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kaleb Patrick

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Felicia Harris

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Erin Strang

    President/CEO

    Total calculated
    $185,400
    From this org
    $161,599
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $23,801
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $161,599
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $16,332
    Nontaxable benefits
    $7,469
    Filer's total
    $185,400

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Answered yes

  • 3 · Written employment contract

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
13 October 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.2
Source object
202502869349301025

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