How much did CHEMICAL BANK FOUNDATION grant in FY2017?

CHEMICAL BANK FOUNDATION reported 122 grants totaling $2,577,608 in its FY2017 IRS filing.

Where is CHEMICAL BANK FOUNDATION based?

CHEMICAL BANK FOUNDATION is based in MI.

CHEMICAL BANK FOUNDATION

Foundation Dossiers

· Private foundation

CHEMICAL BANK FOUNDATION

This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.

$2.6M

Granted FY2017

122

Grants

Communities

$1.0M

Largest

01What you fund

01FY2017 · 122 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2017

Under $10k71 grants · $235k
$10k–50k43 grants · $815k
$50k–250k7 grants · $525k
$250k+1 grant · $1.0M

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SE MICHIGAN$1,002,873
NORTHWOOD UNIVERSITY$100,000
YESHIVA BETH YEHUDAH$100,000
GERALD R FORD INT'L AIRPORT (GRAND$100,000
LAKELAND HEALTH FOUNDATION BENTON H$75,000
EMPOWERMENT PLAN$50,000
MICHIGAN BASEBALL FOUNDATION$50,000
MICHIGAN 4-H FOUNDATION$50,000
UNITED WAY OF MIDLAND COUNTY$47,500
MIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$40,000
DETROIT REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION$37,500
JR ACHIEVEMENT OF MI GREAT LAKES$30,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ELKHART$25,000
WAYNE COUNTY SHERIFFS YOUTH EDUCATI$25,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTH OAKLAN$25,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $99k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 11%. 77% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

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.

Michigan Chamber of Commerce

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

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Saginaw County Chamber of Commerce

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

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United Way of South Central Michigan

United way of south central michigan strives for caring, connected, equitable communities.

Philanthropy

Milwaukee Development Corporation

Regional economic development

Community Improvement

Huron County Community Foundation

Receive and Administer funds for the public welfare of the people of Huron County, Michigan

Philanthropy

Michigan Chamber Foundation

1) to plan and conduct nonpartisan public education programs regarding free enterprise, productivity and basic economic issues affecting the state of michigan.2) to establish and operate a leadership institute designed to provide promising…

Arts & Culture

Grand Rapids Area Community

Inspire individuals and organizations to invest in their community to improve the quality of life.

Community Improvement

Habitat for Humanity of Michigan

To work with the economically disadvantaged to help them to create better places to live/work.

Housing & Shelter

Michigan Assoc of Community Mental Health Boards

Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.

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Michigan Health & Hospital Association

To promote the interests of the health care industry.

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Detroit Economic Growth Corporation

Promote economic growth in the city of detroit

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Michigan Community College Association

The advancement of community and junior colleges in the state of michigan.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Southwest Michigan and the most unlike its peers is Northwood University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/63

the rest of the field

12%

4,764/39,091

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.

03the grantee network

61 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

60/61

Grantees still filing

45/61

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,958,873Education$159,000Community Improvement$109,000Philanthropy$101,385Human Services$99,000Arts & Culture$91,850Youth Development$58,500

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.

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.

Consumers Energy FoundationMI46.1× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Consumers Energy Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast · Comerica Charitable Foundation · Dte Energy Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · WK Kellogg Foundation · Bierlein Companies Foundation · Corewell Health Group Return · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley · Heart of West Michigan United Way

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 organisation CHEMICAL BANK 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ARTIST ADVOCACY FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 320236486 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on ARTIST ADVOCACY FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 5% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Chemical Bank Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Chemical Bank Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

CHEMICAL BANK FOUNDATION

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

61 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Chemical Bank Foundation?

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CHEMICAL BANK FOUNDATION

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

61 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Chemical Bank Foundation?

More from the funding graph