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Borgess Health Alliance Inc

Rooted in the loving ministry of jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable.

$20k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$328kPhilanthropy$328kCommunity Improvement$304kEducation$96kReligion$30kPublic Benefit$25kYouth Development$14kRecreation & Sports$10k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$56M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN$20,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–23, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SCHUPAN CHARITABLE ENTERPRISES INC: $9k → 10%SCHUPAN CHARITABLE ENTERPRISES INC: $6k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 12% of Borgess Health Alliance Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Borgess Health Alliance Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 7 repeat orgs$71k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
6

Total granted

$1.1M
$71k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+26%

Still filing today

86%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
EducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN
    4× · 2018–2022 · $328k · revenue +89%
  • SM
    SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN FIRST CORP
    6× · 2018–2023 · $284k · revenue +69%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    2× · 2019–2020 · $120k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • CO
    City of Kalamazoo
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • SM
    SOUTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -18%
  • LA
    LAKESHORE ADVANTAGE CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +148%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Up Health Education Corporation

The msu chm upper peninsula education corporation is a collaborative medical education corporation funded by the michigan state university college of human medicine and up health system marquette, dedicated to the medical education of…

Education
2
Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

Community Improvement
3
Business Leaders for Michigan

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

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4
Digital Lakes Inc

To showcase michigan as a premier digital hub - attracting, developing, and retaining top tech talent across industries, while simultaneously enhancing the growth and vitality of our state and the economy.

Science & Tech
5
Metropolitan Affairs Coalition

The work program of metropolitan affairs coalition ("mac") is driven by its coalition of business, labor, government, and education leaders; this coalition is dedicated to equity and sustainability, creating economic opportunity, improving…

Community Improvement
6
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

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7
Greater Lansing Destination Development Foundation
Community Improvement
8
Lake Michigan College Foundation

The mission of the lake michigan college foundation is to raise funds in support of lake michigan college and its students. the lake michigan college foundation is the main fund-raising organization of lake michigan college for the…

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9
Saginaw County Chamber of Commerce

To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.

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10
Mymichigan Health

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
11
Southwest Michigan Regional Chamber Foundation

To empower the region's business community through leadership, business and community development.

Community Improvement
12
Michigan State Medical Society Foundation

To advance the field of health for the public good.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southwest Michigan First Corp; the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 13 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN: $327,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICH…SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN FIRST CORP: $284,000 · Community ImprovementSOUTHWEST MICHIGAN FIRST CORPLAKESHORE ADVANTAGE CORPORATION: $10,000 · Community ImprovementHOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN INC: $193,000 · OtherHOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUS…KALAMAZOO GOSPEL MISSION: $30,000 · OtherKALAMAZOO GOSPEL MISSIONCity of Kalamazoo: $25,000 · OtherCity of KalamazooKALAMAZOO COUNTY LAND BANK: $10,000 · OtherAmerican Heart Association Inc: $120,000 · HealthAmerican He…WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY HOMER STRYKER MD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $95,000 · EducationWESTERN MIC…SOUTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationSOUTHWESTER…KALAMAZOO COLLEGE: $6,000 · EducationKALAMAZOO C…Schupan Charitable Enterprises Inc: $14,200 · Human ServicesKALAMAZOO COUNTY PARKS AND RECREATION DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Philanthropy$327,500Community Improvement$294,000Other$258,000Health$120,000Education$111,000Human Services$14,200Recreation & Sports$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN: $327,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetSOUTHWEST MICHIGAN FIRST CORP: $284,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetHOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN INC: $193,000 over 6y, 7.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $120,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY HOMER STRYKER MD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $95,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSchupan Charitable Enterprises Inc: $14,200 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLAKESHORE ADVANTAGE CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKALAMAZOO COUNTY PARKS AND RECREATION DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetKALAMAZOO COLLEGE: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Battle Creek Communit…Kalamazoo Community F…Consumers Energy Foun…WK Kellogg FoundationAscension Borgess Hos…Tyler-Little Family F…Harold and Grace Upjo…United Way of South C…Comerica Charitable F…The Pfizer Foundation…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Battle Creek Community FoundationMI17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Battle Creek Community Foundation · Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Ascension Borgess Hospital · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · United Way of South Central Michigan · Comerica Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Borgess Health Alliance Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Borgess Health Alliance Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to Borgess Health Alliance Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Borgess Health Alliance Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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