[5] The City of Flint School District in 1920 purchased the old Oak Grove sanitarium and 60 adjoining acres plus later added other private lots.

Mott pledged a match towards developing a four-year college if Flint city voters pass a $7-million bond issue, which they did.

[2] In the early 1950s, Flint Journal editor Michael A. Gorman felt that educational and cultural opportunities should be available to residents given its status as a factory town.

Gorman was involved with an informal group that met at his home on Calumet to play cards and discussion Flint's future.

Honorary chairman were Mott, GM president Harlow H. Curtice and retired (1929) Buick engineer Enos A.

[2] A major capital and endowment campaign to support the FCCC, the FIA and FIM was started in 1995 and raised over $33 million.

[2] Beginning in 2010, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation made annual grants over $3 million, of split between the Corporation and the two other private Cultural Center organizations.

[11] For the 2018 Sloan Auto Fair, it was moved from the center campus to Genesee County Parks' Crossroads Village and Huckleberry Railroad given issue with Flint Institute of Arts' expansion.

[12] At the August 2018 primary election, Genesee County voters approved a 10-year arts millage that the bulk of the proceeds would go to Flint Cultural Center institutes.

Additional Flint groups receiving fixed funding are Friends of Berston Fieldhouse and the New McCree Theatre.

In 2005, former Citizens Bank president Howard Gay established a family foundation supporting the Flint Cultural Center Corporation.

[1] Sloan-Longway, stylized as Sloan*Longway, is an operational division of the Flint Cultural Center Corporation.

The division operates three venues Alfred P. Sloan Museum, Robert T. Longway Planetarium and Buick Automotive Gallery and Research Center.

[15] In 2004, the Flint Cultural Center Corporation formed the Sloan-Longway division from the operation of Sloan Museum, Longway Planetarium and Buick Automotive Gallery.

[2] A major capital and endowment campaign to support the FCCC allocated $7.1 million to renovate The Whiting, a project completed in 1999.