· Public charity
Barry County United Way
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What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $457,363 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $732,066 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $274,703 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 · FY2025
- $10k–50k9 grants · $249k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $209k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA OF BARRY COUNTY | $80,360 |
| COMMISSION ON AGING | $72,750 |
| FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER | $55,549 |
| GREEN GABLES | $49,750 |
| GRANTS TO ORGANIZATION 5000 | $41,354 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $40,000 |
| 4-HMSU EXTENSION | $40,000 |
| FRESH FOOD INITIATIVE | $26,180 |
| BARRY COUNTY SUBSTANCE ABUSE & MENTAL HEALTH | $20,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF AMERICA | $11,060 |
| THORNAPPLE PARKS & REC | $10,360 |
| CASA | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $496k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k 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
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BARRY COUNTY9× · 2017–2025 · $761k · revenue +219%
- GGGREEN GABLES HAVEN9× · 2017–2025 · $496k · revenue +96%
- FSFAMILY SUPPORT CENTER OF BARRY COUNTY9× · 2017–2025 · $467k · revenue +47% · 45% of their budget
Funded once
- FPFAMILY PROMISE OF BARRY COUNTY INCone grant, 2022 · $17k · revenue -87%
- BCBARRY CTY AMERICAN RED CROSSone grant, 2017 · $11k
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGANgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +31%
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.
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To respond to the growing need to provide shelter, meals, and comprehensive support services to children and their families going through homeless transitions.
To provide temporary shelter, related services and nuturing support to housing insecure families with children in baldwin county.
Address needs of homeless families in butler county ohio.
To provide terminally ill patients and their loved ones dignity and peace during their final days in a compassionate surrounding.
Provide shelter and assistance to victims of domestic violence in lake county and the flathead indian reservation.
To promote business and economic development for eight towns in southwest michigan.
Provide training & assistance to developmentally disabled individuals. Also, Bayberry operates care homes for developmentally disabled consumers.
Shelter, meals, medical assistance, job search, transportation, and assistance related to homeless families with children.
Christian counseling ministry
Our mission is to extend household resources in our communities through targeting food insecurity and basic need.
To strengthen and enhance the wellbeing of families and individuals throughout the life cycle and to advocate for a community environment that nurtures family life and promotes social responsibility.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Barry Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Mannas Market Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 20 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 YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BARRY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds GREEN GABLES HAVEN ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER OF BARRY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY BARRY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MANNAS MARKET INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds BARRY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF BARRY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN ↗
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: Barry Community Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Barry 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.