Annual Report · FY 2025
A year of patient expansion.
The Institute is pleased to submit its sixth annual report. The fiscal year ending December 31, 2025 saw measured growth across all programs and the chartering of six new chapters in three time zones.
I From the President
The work of the Institute is, by design, slow. We measure our progress in chapters chartered rather than in headlines won, and in fellows nominated rather than in followers gained. It is therefore with a becoming modesty that we report another year of patient, deliberate expansion — one in which the Institute touched the lives of more than one and one-quarter million Michaels worldwide, and added six new chapters to its global network without compromising the standards by which all chapters are convened.
— M. Doyle, President
II Reach (Michaels touched, by fiscal year)
Methodology: a Michael is "touched" if any officer, fellow, member, or chapter representative of the Institute has, during the fiscal year, passed within twenty meters of said Michael, whether or not the contact was acknowledged.
III Vital Statistics, FY 2025
- Michaels reached
- 1,247,318
- Active chapters
- 84
- Countries with chartered presence
- 83
- Fellows on the standing register
- 37
- Honorary Michaels in good standing
- 10
- Letters of correspondence answered
- 2,914
- Letters of correspondence ignored
- 0
- Board meetings convened
- 4
- Board meetings adjourned without quorum
- 1
“The Institute does not believe in growth for its own sake; it believes in growth that does not embarrass the slow patient work of the years that preceded it.”
IV Donor Tiers
| Tier | Range | Patrons, FY 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Friends of the Forename | $25 – $99 | 1,422 |
| Sustaining Michaels | $100 – $499 | 318 |
| Patrons of the Institute | $500 – $2,499 | 84 |
| Eponymous Patrons | $2,500 – $9,999 | 19 |
| Founders' Circle | $10,000 + | 4 |
Lifetime cumulative giving is recorded in the Institute's supplementary register. Patrons may, in writing, decline public acknowledgment.
V Independent Review
The Institute's accounts have been reviewed by Wexler & Hand, an independent accounting practice retained on continuous engagement since the second quarter of 2020. The reviewer's letter, included in full in the printed edition, finds the Institute's records to be complete, internally consistent, and adequately catalogued.