The Flint Cultural Center Foundation focuses almost exclusively on sustaining cultural institutions in Flint, MI, funding museums, performing arts, and the operations of the Flint Cultural Center campus. Their grants support core institutions and neighborhood arts organizations, emphasizing arts education, presentation, and cultural infrastructure rather than broad social services. Funding is highly place-based and institution-focused, with repeated support to the same organizations.
Highly concentrated, large-dollar grants to a small set of recurring local grantees (multiple multi-thousand-dollar grants per organization), with few total grants focused on long-term institutional support rather than one-off or geographically dispersed giving.
A defining feature of Flint Cultural Center Foundation is its sustained support for Flint’s cultural campus, with multimillion-dollar grants recurring to the same institutions across multiple years. The foundation’s largest recent awards go to the Flint Institute of Science and History, the Flint Institute of Music, and the Flint Institute of Arts, showing a grantmaking pattern centered on museums, performing arts, and cultural infrastructure rather than broad social services. Its support also reaches the Flint Cultural Center Corporation, which suggests an interest in the campus operations that connect these institutions. The foundation’s grant history points to a place-based strategy built around core cultural organizations in Flint. The Flint Institute of Music appears repeatedly in the recent grants list with awards of $4,524,845 in 2025, $4,208,187 in 2024, and $4,371,758 in 2023. The Flint Institute of Arts also receives repeated support, including $2,262,420 in 2025, $2,104,093 in 2024, and $2,185,878 in 2023. Smaller but still substantial grants to neighborhood arts organizations such as McCree Theatre and Friends of Berston show that the foundation also supports community-facing arts access beyond the main campus.
Arts education and performance are central to the foundation’s giving. It supported the Flint Institute of Music with $4,524,845 in 2025 for its work as a cultural institution, and the institute also received large awards in 2024 and 2023. Museum and heritage programming is another clear area of support. The Flint Institute of Science and History received $5,989,959 in 2023 and $2,459,794 in 2024, with an additional $2,262,420 in 2025, indicating repeated backing for its programming and educational role. Visual arts and community arts access also appear in the record. The Flint Institute of Arts received $2,262,420 in 2025 and $2,104,093 in 2024, while Greater Flint Arts Council, McCree Theatre, and Friends of Berston each received substantial support for arts participation in Flint.
The foundation’s typical grant size is large: p25 is $530,538, the median is $1,402,679, and p75 is $2,459,794. Its recent awards cluster well above half a million dollars, with several grants in the multi-million-dollar range. The pattern is recurring rather than one-off: the Flint Institute of Music, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint Institute of Science and History, Flint Cultural Center Corporation, McCree Theatre, Greater Flint Arts Council, and Friends of Berston each appear more than once in the recent grants list. Flint Cultural Center Foundation is a local funder, and the recent record shows grants to institutional recipients rather than individuals.
$13.6M
$5.6M
$12.3M
$13.6M
Most grants fall between $531K and $2.5M, with a median of $1.4M.
25th Percentile
$531K
Median
$1.4M
75th Percentile
$2.5M
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Notable grantees: Flint Institute of Music, Flint Institute of Science and History, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint Cultural Center Corporation, McCree Theatre
Grantmaking is fully concentrated in Flint, Michigan: 100% of grants in the recent list went to recipients in MI, and the top state by grant count is also MI. The recipient city shown throughout is Flint, with awards landing at campus institutions and neighborhood arts groups alike. The recent grants list includes the Flint Institute of Arts, Flint Institute of Music, Flint Institute of Science and History, Flint Cultural Center Corporation, McCree Theatre, Greater Flint Arts Council, and Friends of Berston, all in Flint.
Its recent grants focus on Flint cultural institutions and arts organizations, including the Flint Institute of Music, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint Institute of Science and History, Flint Cultural Center Corporation, McCree Theatre, Greater Flint Arts Council, and Friends of Berston. The record points to museums, performing arts, cultural campus operations, and community arts access.
The grant-size distribution is large: p25 is $530,538, the median grant is $1,402,679, and p75 is $2,459,794. Recent awards also include several grants above $4 million, showing that many gifts are substantial institutional supports.
No. The recent grant list shows 21 grants to recipients in the United States, and 100% of the grants went to recipients in Michigan. The recipient cities shown are all Flint.
Yes. The recent grants list shows repeated support to the Flint Institute of Music, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint Institute of Science and History, Flint Cultural Center Corporation, McCree Theatre, Greater Flint Arts Council, and Friends of Berston across 2023, 2024, and 2025.
2026
Source: IRS Form 990-PF, fiscal year 2026.
Most recent grants reported to the IRS.
| Recipient | Location | Amount | Year | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flint Institute of Music | Flint, MI | $4,862,147 | 2026 | See Part IV |
| Flint Institute of Science and History | Flint, MI | $2,435,946 | 2026 | See Part IV |
| Flint Institute of Arts | Flint, MI | $2,432,697 | 2026 | See Part IV |
| Flint Cultual Center Corporation | Flint, MI | $2,071,987 | 2026 | See Part IV |
| Greater Flint Arts Council | Flint, MI | $621,635 | 2026 | See Part IV |
| McCree Theatre | Flint, MI | $570,468 | 2026 | See Part IV |
| Friends of Berston | Flint, MI | $570,468 | 2026 | See Part IV |
| FLINT INSTITUTE OF MUSIC | FLINT, MI | $4,524,845 | 2025 | SEE PART IV |
| FLINT INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND HIST | FLINT, MI | $2,262,420 | 2025 | SEE PART IV |
| FLINT INSTITUTE OF ARTS FLINT INSTITUTE OF ARTS | FLINT, MI | $2,262,420 | 2025 | SEE PART IV |
| FLINT CULTUAL CENTER CORPORATION FLINT CULTURAL CENTER CORPORATION | FLINT, MI | $1,402,679 | 2025 | SEE PART IV |
| MCCREE THEATRE | FLINT, MI | $613,121 | 2025 | SEE PART IV |
| FRIENDS OF BERSTON | FLINT, MI | $530,538 | 2025 | SEE PART IV |
| GREATER FLINT ARTS COUNCIL | FLINT, MI | $530,538 | 2025 | SEE PART IV |
| FLINT INSTITUTE OF MUSIC | FLINT, MI | $4,208,187 | 2024 | SEE PART IV |
| FLINT INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND HIST | FLINT, MI | $2,459,794 | 2024 | SEE PART IV |
| FLINT INSTITUTE OF ARTS FLINT INSTITUTE OF ARTS | FLINT, MI | $2,104,093 | 2024 | SEE PART IV |
| FLINT CULTUAL CENTER CORPORATION FLINT CULTURAL CENTER CORPORATION | FLINT, MI | $850,000 | 2024 | SEE PART IV |
| GREATER FLINT ARTS COUNCIL | FLINT, MI | $605,205 | 2024 | SEE PART IV |
| MCCREE THEATRE | FLINT, MI | $493,410 | 2024 | SEE PART IV |
| FRIENDS OF BERSTON | FLINT, MI | $493,410 | 2024 | SEE PART IV |
| FLINT INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND HIST | FLINT, MI | $5,989,959 | 2023 | SEE PART IV |
| FLINT INSTITUTE OF MUSIC | FLINT, MI | $4,371,758 | 2023 | SEE PART IV |
| FLINT CULTUAL CENTER CORPORATION FLINT CULTURAL CENTER CORPORATION | FLINT, MI | $2,523,438 | 2023 | SEE PART IV |
| FLINT INSTITUTE OF ARTS FLINT INSTITUTE OF ARTS | FLINT, MI | $2,185,878 | 2023 | SEE PART IV |
| GREATER FLINT ARTS COUNCIL | FLINT, MI | $609,294 | 2023 | SEE PART IV |
| MCCREE THEATRE | FLINT, MI | $512,588 | 2023 | SEE PART IV |
| FRIENDS OF BERSTON | FLINT, MI | $512,588 | 2023 | SEE PART IV |
McCree Theatre
$570,468See Part IV
Friends of Berston
$570,468See Part IV
SEE PART IV
MCCREE THEATRE
$613,121SEE PART IV
FRIENDS OF BERSTON
$530,538SEE PART IV
MCCREE THEATRE
$493,410SEE PART IV
FRIENDS OF BERSTON
$493,410SEE PART IV
SEE PART IV
MCCREE THEATRE
$512,588SEE PART IV
FRIENDS OF BERSTON
$512,588SEE PART IV