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LAUNCH MICHIGAN

EIN 92-0358917 LANSING, MI

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Revenue 2023
$550,067
Expenses 2023
$501,446

Program services were 54.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B05
Classification
2000
Street
725 PRUDDEN ST

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).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

LAUNCH MICHIGAN IS A CROSS-PARTISAN, NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION THAT INCLUDES EDUCATION, BUSINESS, LABOR AND PHILANTHROPIC LEADERS WORKING TOGETHER TO REIMAGINE MICHIGAN'S SYSTEM OF PUBLIC EDUCATION TO PREPARE EVERY CHILD FOR SUCCESS AFTER HIGH SCHOOL.

  • LAUNCH MICHIGAN IS GUIDED BY OUR FRAMEWORK FOR TRANSFORMATION. IT IS A ROADMAP FOR REINVENTING MICHIGAN'S PUBLIC EDUCATION SYSTEM. THE LAUNCH MICHIGAN FRAMEWORK INCLUDES THREE KEY PILLARS: 1.) REINVENTION: CREATE A TOP-PERFORMING EDUCATION SYSTEM FOR MICHIGAN AND WILL UNLOCK A COLLEGE AND CAREER READINESS STANDARD IN A WAY THAT REVOLUTIONIZES EDUCATION IN MICHIGAN AND PROVIDES INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR ALL STUDENTS AT ALL LEVELS. 2.) RESPONSIBILITY: A REALIGNED AND REDEFINED SYSTEM OF GOVERNANCE & ACCOUNTABILITY TO REDESIGN AN EDUCATION SYSTEM THAT PROMOTES TRANSPARENCY AND ALIGNS OUR STATE'S GOVERNMENT STRUCTURE MORE COHESIVELY AND EFFECTIVELY AND HAS ALL STUDENTS IN MIND. AND 3.) RESOURCES: INCREASED INVESTMENT IN PUBLIC EDUCATION AND WILL INVEST IN OUR STUDENTS IN A WAY THAT ADDRESSES THEIR EVERY NEED, AT EVERY LEVEL, SUPPORTING AND PROMOTING GROWTH AND PROSPERITY IN THEIR FUTURE AND FOR THE FUTURE OF MICHIGAN'S ECONOMY.

    Expenses $272,460

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Dr Venessa Kessler

    PRESIDENT & CEO

    Total calculated
    $61,257
    From this org
    $60,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $1,257
    Hours/week
    40

  • Bill Parfet

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ronald E Hall Jr

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Karen McPhee

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dr Nikolai Vitti

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mark Bernstein

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Gerry Anderson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kylee Mitchell Wells

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lee Graham

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Tina Kerr

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jeff Donofrio

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Chandra Madafferi

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Brian Calley

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Punita Dani Thurman

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Terry Gardner

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $550,067
    Expenses
    $501,446
    Contributions
    $550,067
    Grants paid
    $0

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2022

Tax period
1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022
Principal officer
Terry H Gardner
Mailing address
119 Pere Marquette Dr Ste 1CLansing MI 48912
Website
Something was entered that is not a web address, so it is not shown.

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.