· Private foundation
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k229 grants · $594k
- $10k–50k149 grants · $3.4M
- $50k–250k340 grants · $41M
- $250k+116 grants · $121M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Community Foundation of Greater Flint | $15,541,792 |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | $10,000,000 |
| Kettering University | $8,000,000 |
| Beecher Community School District | $7,000,000 |
| Foundation for the Uptown Reinvestment Corporation | $6,000,000 |
| Friends of Berston | $5,000,000 |
| Genesee Intermediate School District | $5,000,000 |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | $3,652,544 |
| Community Foundation of Greater Flint | $3,340,000 |
| Mott Community College | $3,000,000 |
| Mizzen Education Inc | $2,500,000 |
| Afterschool Alliance | $2,400,000 |
| Fund for Global Human Rights | $2,000,000 |
| American Online Giving Foundation Inc | $1,542,417 |
| Uptown Reinvestment Corporation Inc | $1,300,000 |
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 US giving — 89% of grant dollars ($1.1B). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 11% that went abroad ($133M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $18.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
Beyond the US — 11% of all-years giving ($133M)
51 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Charles Stewart Mott Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +42% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
1314 repeat relationships — 587 still active in FY2024, 727 since wound down; 65 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.6M 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
- FFFOUNDATION FOR UPTOWN REINVESTMENT8× · 2017–2024 · $54M · revenue +559% · 100% of their budget
- FCFlint Cultural Center Foundation6× · 2017–2022 · $52M · revenue +123%
- KUKettering University8× · 2017–2024 · $36M · revenue +42%
Funded once
- FFFOUNDATION FOR FLINTone grant, 2017 · $2.0M · revenue -89% · 64% of their budget
- SOState of Michiganone grant, 2019 · $1.0M
- MCMCFARLAN CHARITABLE CORPORATIONone grant, 2022 · $750k · revenue -77% · 28% of their budget
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.
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.…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
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.…
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grantmakers for Education and the most unlike its peers is Flint Public Art Project. 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 35 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
1259 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. 1259 of the 2,000 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER FLINT ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR UPTOWN REINVESTMENT ↗
- Who funds Flint Cultural Center Foundation ↗
- Who funds Genesee Area Focus Fund ↗
- Who funds Kettering University ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE FLINT CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE CRIM FITNESS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AFTERSCHOOL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Flint Cultural Center Corporation ↗
- Who funds Communities First Inc ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Greater Flint ↗
- Who funds Flint Institute of Arts ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GENESEE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds Flint Institute of Music ↗
- Who funds AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS ↗
- Who funds WATER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds STEM NEXT OPPORTUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BERSTON ↗
- Who funds GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CANDID ↗
- Who funds Council on Foundations Inc ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS ↗
- Who funds GREATER FLINT ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
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: Community Foundation of Greater Flint · Ruth Mott Foundation · The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation · Stella & Frederick Loeb Charitable Trust · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Hagerman Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Kresge Foundation · Anna Paulina Foundation · Afterschool Alliance · The Carls Foundation · Dte Energy 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 Charles Stewart Mott Foundation 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.
- Massachusetts Afterschool Partner- Ship Inc — 82% of income from government
- Connecticut Network for Children and Youth Inc — 70% of income from government
- Oklahoma Public School Resource Center — 67% of income from government
- United Way of Delaware — 58% of income from government
- Vermont Afterschool Inc — 42% of income from government
- Oregon Association for the Education of Young Chil — 30% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc — 11% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- Fund for Educational Excellence Inc — 1% of income from government
- Children's Forum Inc — 0% of income from government
- Cfleads — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
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.