· Public charity
Allegan County United Way
Mission: to increase the impact of people's caring in allegan county, michigan.vision: all individuals in allegan county achieve their full human potential.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $57,067 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $181,790 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $124,723 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k5 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAFE HARBOR | $10,480 |
| SYLVIA'S PLACE | $10,059 |
| WINGS OF HOPE HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE | $9,178 |
| WINGS HOME | $8,332 |
| CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS SE | $8,212 |
| ALLEGAN COUNTY LEGAL ASSISTANCE CENTER | $5,653 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF KALAMAZOO | $5,153 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $491k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
20 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2020, 13 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- WOWINGS OF HOPE HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE INC4× · 2017–2020 · $124k · revenue +103%
- SHSAFE HARBOR CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER4× · 2017–2020 · $95k · revenue +161%
- CFCATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICES4× · 2017–2020 · $79k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- SMST MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $12k
- ACAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETYone grant, 2018 · $9k
- HOHOSPICE OF HOLLANDone grant, 2018 · $7k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To promote a violence free atmosphere from domestic and sexual violence in which survivors can recognize their options to have the opportunity to continue living violence free and regain their sense of self-worth; to educate and raise…
Catholic human services inc. enhances the lives of those we serve by providing hope-filled social, emotional and spiritual support to all people.
To assist people with low or moderate income to obtain safe and affordable housing
Through internal expertise, external partnerships, and advocacy, the area agency on aging of western michigan provides older adults, adults with disabilities, and their caregivers equitable access to services that promote independence and…
The michigan christian home dba beacon hill at eastgate, a not-for-profit corporation, provides housing and health services in a christian environment for older adults, thus enabling them to meet their ongoing physical, social and…
Our mission is to reduce trauma and enhance healing by providing advocacy, education and outreach.
Choices of manistee county, inc. provides emergency shelter, crisis intervention, counseling, advocacy, and education to survivors of domestic violence in manistee county, empowering survivors to achieve safety and self-determination.
To operate and manage according to law and applicable regulations, a certified home for the ages for qualified residents of Kalamazoo county and its surrounding counties.
Emergency shelter for victims of domestic violence.
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
Community & home supports, inc. was founded to help people and communities address poverty and homelessness. we strive to fulfill our purpose by developing, leading, and participating in collaborative and innovative efforts that support…
Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County D/B/A Catholic Charities Washtenaw County provides diverse, holistic social services including adoption and pregnancy counseling, food and basic needs assistance, domestic and child abuse…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Action House and the most unlike its peers is Mitten Childrens Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 26 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds WINGS OF HOPE HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SYLVIA'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS SE ↗
- Who funds RESILIENCE ADVOCATES FOR ENDING VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds WINGS HOME ↗
- Who funds ARC OF ALLEGAN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DISPUTE RESOLUTION DBA MEDIATION SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ALLEGAN COUNTY LEGAL ASSISTANCE CTR ↗
- Who funds REACH FOR RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEGAN COUNTY RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION HOUSE ↗
- Who funds MARTIN AREA RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
- Who funds MITTEN CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Greater Ottawa County United Way · The Allegan County Community Foundation · Perrigo Company Charitable Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · The Mignon Sherwood Delano Fund · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · Douglas & Sandra Dekock Family Foun · Great Lakes Energy People Fund · Woodward Governor Charitable Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Feeding America West Michigan
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Allegan County United Way funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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