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Bridge Michigan

U.S. center to center-left (nonprofit, state-focused)

Owned byPublished by the Center for Michigan, a Michigan-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 2006 by former newspaper publisher Philip Power. It has no commercial owner or shareholders.
FundingPhilanthropy and donations. This includes foundation grants, a founding family's recurring gift of about $1 million a year in the early years, individual reader donors (over $1 million from nearly 8,400 people in 2024), business sponsors and other revenue. The Center says it has raised roughly $45 million in total support over about 17 years. Bridge also shares its content free with other Michigan outlets.
On the administrationmostly neutral

Background

The Center for Michigan was founded in 2006 by Philip Power, a former newspaper publisher. It launched Bridge Magazine in 2011 with one editor and a reporter, backed by a founding family's recurring $1 million annual gift and a multi-million-dollar foundation grant package. The outlet later grew into a full statewide newsroom, now branded Bridge Michigan, with a mix of foundation, reader and business support. It also runs a community-engagement program called Bridge Listens, and it lets other Michigan outlets republish its stories at no charge. It describes itself as nonpartisan and says funders do not direct its coverage. Rating groups differ: AllSides rates it Center, Media Bias/Fact Check rates it Left-Center, and NewsGuard gives it a high credibility score. Its coverage of the second Trump administration is largely policy- and impact-focused (for example, how Trump's Michigan promises are playing out), and its reader surveys show many respondents are negative about Trump. Its own reporting is generally more measured than that.

Sources

  1. How We're Funded - Bridge Michigan
  2. Bridge Michigan - Wikipedia
  3. How Bridge Michigan grew from a playground idea to national reputation
  4. Bridgemi.com Media Bias Rating - AllSides
  5. Bridge Michigan - Bias and Credibility - Media Bias/Fact Check
  6. Center for Michigan - InfluenceWatch
  7. Donald Trump vowed a 'Michigan miracle.' How that promise and others are going - Bridge Michigan

Profile compiled 2026-11-03; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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