Michigan · Public charity
Blue Water Community Action
To plan, establish, coordinate, operate programs and conduct activities which give promise of progress toward eliminating and attacking the cause of poverty in st. Clair county.
- $1.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $486k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $37,896
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $195,670
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 8
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.6M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Blue Water Community Action funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $486k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $351k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $490k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $432k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $335k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $329k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $55k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $48k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baraga-Houghton-Keweenaw Community Action Agency Inc | $820,027 | 6 | 11% |
| Comprehensive Youth Services Inc | $445,705 | 8 | 3% |
| Ottawa County Administrator's Office | $355,683 | 6 | n/a |
| Community Action Agency of South Central Michigan | $291,570 | 6 | 0% |
| Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries | $268,814 | 7 | 1% |
| The Young Men's Christian Association of the Blue Water Area | $114,392 | 1 | 2% |
| Southwest Michigan Community Action Agency | $95,071 | 5 | 1% |
| Human Development Commission | $58,571 | 4 | 0% |
| Helping Hands Ministries | $31,380 | 3 | 5% |
| Macomb Food Program | $24,435 | 1 | 20% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baraga-Houghton-Keweenaw Community Action Agency Inc | $820,027 | 6 | 11% |
| Comprehensive Youth Services Inc | $445,705 | 8 | 3% |
| Ottawa County Administrator's Office | $355,683 | 6 | n/a |
| Community Action Agency of South Central Michigan | $291,570 | 6 | 0% |
| Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries | $268,814 | 7 | 1% |
| The Young Men's Christian Association of the Blue Water Area | $114,392 | 1 | 2% |
| Southwest Michigan Community Action Agency | $95,071 | 5 | 1% |
| Human Development Commission | $58,571 | 4 | 0% |
| Helping Hands Ministries | $31,380 | 3 | 5% |
| Macomb Food Program | $24,435 | 1 | 20% |
| Gogebic-Ontonagon Community Action Agency | $16,341 | 1 | 0% |
| Chippewa-Luce-Mackinac Community Action Human Resource Authorityinc | $5,100 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Blue Water Community Action supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Michigan Community Action Inc · Feeding America West Michigan · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Blue Water Community Action
- How much does Blue Water Community Action give?
- Blue Water Community Action reported 7 itemized grants totaling $486,495, out of $1,737,029 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Blue Water Community Action fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (37%), Human Services (34%), Housing & Shelter (17%).
- Who are Blue Water Community Action's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Baraga-Houghton-Keweenaw Community Action Agency Inc ($820k), Comprehensive Youth Services Inc ($446k), Ottawa County Administrator's Office ($356k).
- Does Blue Water Community Action fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Blue Water Community Action?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Michigan Community Action Inc, Feeding America West Michigan, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Blue Water Community Action based?
- Blue Water Community Action is based in MI.
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