Put your name on local creative projects the community has already voted for with its own money — so every matched dollar backs proven demand, not a guess.

This model already works

Crowdgranting isn’t a new idea — it’s a proven one.

Since 2014, Michigan’s Public Spaces Community Places (PSCP), run by the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC), the Michigan Municipal League, and Patronicity, has paired community crowdfunding with state matching grants for public-space and creative projects across the state. A dollar-for-dollar match roughly doubles what the community raises.

Michigan PSCP results, as of June 2026. Not ChorusGrant figures — ChorusGrant has not yet completed a campaign.

“In FY2025, every $1 Michigan invested unlocked $10.47 in private community support.”

— Michigan’s reported FY2025 result, per michiganbusiness.org

The model has since been replicated in Massachusetts (Commonwealth Places) and Indiana (CreatINg Places).

Why fund through ChorusGrant

How matching works

1. 1

   The crowd pledges

   Neighbors commit an amount toward the project's goal. No card is charged yet — a pledge is just a name, an email, and a number.

2. 2

   The goal is hit

   Pledges are only collected if the campaign reaches its full goal. Short of the goal, nothing moves and nothing is charged.

3. 3

   The match doubles it

   The moment the goal is hit, the sponsor's match deploys dollar-for-dollar — roughly doubling what the community raised.

Money moves only on success — you never pay for a project that failed to show it was wanted.

The portfolio thesis

Crowd-validation is a sorting mechanism, not a one-off trick.

Because the crowd pledges before a dollar of match moves, every project that reaches its goal has already cleared a bar no proposal review can replicate: real people, putting up real money, ahead of you. Back more of these and your capital naturally concentrates on the projects the community has already chosen — and the reputation of being the match that shows up compounds with every one you back.

At aggregate scale, this is exactly what Michigan’s PSCP has shown: 444 crowd-validated projects funded, $17M+ raised from the crowd across them (as of June 2026). That’s the evidence that a portfolio built this way works at scale.

What we’re lining up next: a small, hand-picked pipeline of additional local creative projects, brought on one at a time as each proves it can hit its goal — not a queue we fill to look busy. If you want a say in which projects join that pipeline, that conversation starts with a match commitment on Project #1.

Put your name on it

This is what it looks like once you’re in.

Mockup for illustration — not a real sponsor or a real campaign total.

Ready to back proven demand?

Tell us the scale of match you’re thinking about and we’ll walk you through exactly where your dollars would land on Project #1.

ChorusGrant never deducts from pledge or match dollars.