COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

T00C

Classification

2000

Street

3101 E GRAND BLVD SUITE 300

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

• AS A MEMBERSHIP ASSOCIATION OF FOUNDATIONS & CORPORATE GIVING PROGRAMS, CMF PROVIDES RESOURCES TO MEMBERS THROUGH ITS WEBSITE, SEMINARS, CONFERENCES AND PUBLICATIONS. CMF IS ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN ADVOCACY ON BEHALF OF FOUNDATIONS & CORPORATE GIVING PROGRAMS REGARDING LEGISLATIVE & REGULATORY ISSUES THAT AFFECT CHARITABLE GIVING & THE NONPROFIT SECTOR.

  Expenses $3,643,547 · Grants $129,174 · Revenue $2,363,771

• CMF HAS AN OFFICE IN LANSING THAT WORKS DIRECTLY WITH THE GOVERNOR OF MICHIGAN. THE OFFICE OF FOUNDATION LIAISON WAS ESTABLISHED IN 2003 TO MANAGE STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN FOUNDATIONS AND STATE GOVERNMENT TO IMPROVE THE LIVES OF MICHIGAN CITIZENS. FUNDED BY FOUNDATIONS, THE OFFICE OF THREE STAFF IS LOCATED IN LANSING WITH DIRECT ACCESS TO THE GOVERNOR.

  Expenses $824,520

• THE STATEWIDE EQUITY FUND IS A CMF MEMBER-DRIVEN FUND TO EMPOWER MICHIGAN PHILANTHROPY TO STRATEGICALLY POOL RESOURCES TOWARD EQUITABLE SYSTEMIC CHANGE.

  Expenses $516,929 · Grants $7,500

• CMF, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH SEVERAL MEMBERS, HAS DEVELOPED A TWO-YEAR FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM TO INTRODUCE RECENT DIVERSE COLLEGE GRADUATES TO THE FIELD OF PHILANTHROPY, WITH THE LONG-TERM GOAL OF INCREASING THE DIVERSITY OF FOUNDATION STAFF. UNDER THIS PROGRAM, FELLOWS WORK APPROXIMATELY FOUR DAYS PER WEEK WITH MEMBER FOUNDATIONS AND ONE DAY PER WEEK WITH CMF.

  Expenses $682,791

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

The first 25 listed. 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $5,831,081

  Expenses

  $6,721,951

  Contributions

  $1,335,560

  Grants paid

  $136,674

• 2023

  Revenue

  $13,085,801

  Expenses

  $7,880,501

  Contributions

  $6,062,855

  Grants paid

  $525,560

• 2022

  Revenue

  $5,763,932

  Expenses

  $7,788,748

  Contributions

  $4,848,233

  Grants paid

  $1,224,819

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2024 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2023 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2022 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $7,716,635

  Expenses

  $7,768,394

  Assets (EOY)

  $40,445,631

• 2021 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,446,913

  Expenses

  $7,495,089

  Assets (EOY)

  $36,730,384

• 2020 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $8,314,831

  Expenses

  $7,932,798

  Assets (EOY)

  $29,899,457

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,042,818

  Expenses

  $6,818,237

  Assets (EOY)

  $30,742,787

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,814,696

  Expenses

  $4,921,667

  Assets (EOY)

  $33,145,541

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

• LAUNCH MICHIGAN

  $460,267

  2023 · OPERATING GRANT

• TIDES CENTER

  $440,000

  2022 · TO MANAGE PROGRAM PROJECTS

• LAUNCH MICHIGAN

  $175,000

  2022 · LAUNCH MI FUNDING

• COMMUNITY FOUNDATION MARQUETTE COUNTY

  $162,000

  2022 · STATE EQUITY FUND INNOVATION GRANT AND OTHER

• CHARLES STEWART MOTT FOUNDATION

  $158,000

  2022 · OFFICE OF THE FOUNDATION LIAISON SUPPORT

• ANN ARBOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $102,250

  2022 · STATE EQUITY FUND PILOT GRANT AND OTHER

• COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN

  $100,000

  2022 · STATE EQUITY FUND PILOT GRANT

• SANILAC COUNTY COMMUNITY

  $20,000

  2024 · GRANT FOR PROJECT SUPPORT

• KEWEENAW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $15,000

  2023 · GRANT SUPPORT TO MOVE FROM AFFILIATE CF TO INDEPENDENT CF.

• STURGIS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $13,850

  2024 · GRANT FOR PROJECT SUPPORT

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC

  $270,600

  2022 · COMMUNITY & HUMAN SERVICES

• GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC

  $135,000

  2023 · COMMUNITY & HUMAN SERVICES

• COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN

  $64,000

  2022 · GENERAL OPERATIONS/PHILANTHROPY, VOLUNTARISM & GRANTMAKING FOUNDATIONS PROGRAM

• GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $37,500

  2022 · GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

• GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC

  $35,000

  2024 · GREAT LAKES FUNDERS COLLABORATIVE

• ANN ARBOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $32,200

  2023 · PHILANTHROPIC / GRANTMAKING ORGS

• KALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $31,500

  2024 · PHILANTHROPY, VOLUNTARISM & GRANT MAKING FOUNDATIONS

• ANN ARBOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $28,800

  2022 · PUBLIC BENEFIT - PHILANTHROPIC ORGANIZATIONS / GRANTMAKING FOUNDATIONS

• MICHIGAN HEALTH ENDOWMENT FUND

  $28,000

  2023 · COLLABORATIVE FUNDING FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD FUNDERS' COLLABORATIVE

• GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC

  $25,000

  2024 · COMMUNITY & HUMAN SERVICES

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

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