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Chemical Bank Foundation

Its FY2017 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.6M
Granted FY2017
122
Grants FY2017
8
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
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
8
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SE MICHIGAN$1,002,873
YESHIVA BETH YEHUDAH$100,000
NORTHWOOD UNIVERSITY$100,000
GERALD R FORD INT'L AIRPORT (GRAND$100,000
LAKELAND HEALTH FOUNDATION BENTON H$75,000
MICHIGAN BASEBALL FOUNDATION$50,000
MICHIGAN 4-H FOUNDATION$50,000
EMPOWERMENT PLAN$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
WAYNE COUNTY SHERIFFS YOUTH EDUCATI$25,000
MIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$25,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTH OAKLAN$25,000
02The need
02

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%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%KIDS IN DISTRESS SERVICES: $2k → 13%CASS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $25k → 12%EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $50k → 21%WEDGWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $20k → 11%GRAND RAPIDS URBAN LEAGUE: $3k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

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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.

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Where the work is directed

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

About 42% of Chemical Bank 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. Read by recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in MI; read by stated purpose it is 87% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Chemical Bank Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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.

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.

1
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

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

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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
Mid Michigan Community Action Agency Inc

Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.

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5
Saginaw County Chamber of Commerce

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

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6
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
7
Michigan Credit Union Foundation

Cooperatively empowering credit unions to increase financial well-being by supporting community enrichment, financial education, and credit union development initiatives

Public Benefit
8
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
9
Mymichigan Health Foundation

The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes by conducting or supporting activites exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the…

Health
10
Michigan West Coast Chamber of Commerce

The west coast chamber exists to be a catalyst for business growth and development, a convener of leaders and influencers, and a champion for a thriving community.

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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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Mymichigan Medical Center Midland

Creating healthy communities - together

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan and the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. 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 40 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%3%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr15%18%20–35yr15%31%35–55yr17%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr15%5%20–35yr15%62%35–55yr17%23%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% 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 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/80
the rest of the field
14%
5,737/41,071

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.

04the grantee network

77 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. 77 of the 114 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
29
Early backer (in before they grew)
76/77
Grantees still filing
57/77
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN — $1,002,873 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGANMIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $65,000 · PhilanthropyMIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION+7 more — $61,385 · Philanthropy+7 moreGERALD R FORD INT'L AIRPORT (GRAND — $100,000 · OtherGERALD R FORD INT'L AIRPORT (GRANDYESHIVATH BETH YEHUDAH — $100,000 · OtherYESHIVATH BETH YEHUDAHLAKELAND HEALTH FOUNDATION BENTON H — $75,000 · OtherLAKELAND HEALTH FOUNDATION BENTON HUnited Way of Midland County — $47,500 · OtherUnited Way of Midland CountyJR ACHIEVEMENT OF MI GREAT LAKES — $35,000 · OtherCITY YEAR INC — $30,000 · Other+65 more — $503,000 · Other+65 moreNorthwood University — $115,000 · EducationSAGINAW FUTURE INC — $15,000 · EducationMEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $15,000 · EducationREAD TO A CHILD INC — $10,000 · Education+4 more — $10,000 · EducationMICHIGAN BASEBALL FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · Community ImprovementDETROIT REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC — $37,500 · Community ImprovementSTART GARDEN INC — $10,000 · Community ImprovementBAY FUTURE INC — $10,000 · Community ImprovementTHE YOUNGSTOWN EDISON BUSINESS INCUBATOR — $5,000 · Community Improvement+2 more — $4,000 · Community ImprovementTHE EMPOWERMENT PLAN — $50,000 · Human ServicesCASS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesWEDGWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES — $20,000 · Human Services+2 more — $4,000 · Human ServicesGILDA'S CLUB METRO DETROIT — $25,000 · Arts & CultureVALLEY ART CENTER INC — $20,850 · Arts & CultureMidland Center for the Arts Inc — $20,000 · Arts & CultureKRASL ART CENTER INC — $11,000 · Arts & CultureDetroit Historical Society — $6,000 · Arts & CultureARTIST ADVOCACY FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $4,000 · Arts & CultureMICHIGAN 4-H FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentMT PLEASANT PILLARS OF THE COMMUNITY INC — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ELKHART COUNTY INC — $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentKENT COUNTY YOUTH AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION — $5,000 · Youth Development+2 more — $4,500 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$1,129,258Other$890,500Education$165,000Community Improvement$116,500Human Services$99,000Arts & Culture$91,850Youth Development$85,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNorthwood University — $115,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $65,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMICHIGAN 4-H FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHE EMPOWERMENT PLAN — $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetMICHIGAN BASEBALL FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetUnited Way of Midland County — $47,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDETROIT REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC — $37,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $27,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB METRO DETROIT — $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ELKHART COUNTY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCASS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetVALLEY ART CENTER INC — $20,850 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetMT PLEASANT PILLARS OF THE COMMUNITY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetWEDGWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMidland Center for the Arts Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMYMICHIGAN HEALTH — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS — $17,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GRAND RAPIDS — $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN — $12,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKRASL ART CENTER INC — $11,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHILLS & DALES FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetREAD TO A CHILD INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMICHIGAN HISTORIC PRESERVATION NETWORK — $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetYOUNGSTOWNWARREN REGIONAL CHAMBER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetInspiring Minds — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBAY FUTURE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetMUNSON HEALTHCARE OTSEGO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — $8,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFERNWOOD INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBATTLE CREEK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDetroit Historical Society — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ELKHART COUNTY INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKENT COUNTY YOUTH AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HEAT AND WARMTH FUND — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSVRC Industries Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDOWNTOWN BOXING GYM YOUTH PROGRAM — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE YOUNGSTOWN EDISON BUSINESS INCUBATOR — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHarbor Habitat for Humanity Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetARTIST ADVOCACY FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetNORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMECOSTA - OSCEOLA UNITED WAY INC — $4,885 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGRACE HEALTH INC — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREAD Association of Saginaw County — $3,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budget
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 Foun…Community Foundation …Dte Energy FoundationComerica Charitable F…The Mercantile Bank F…Harry a and Margaret …Tr Ua Fifth Third Fou…American Electric Pow…Bierlein Companies Fo…Douglas & Maria Devos…Heart of West Michiga…Michigan Health Endow…
Consumers Energy FoundationMI47.4× affinity23 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 Michigan · Dte Energy Foundation · Comerica Charitable Foundation · The Mercantile Bank Foundation · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · Tr Ua Fifth Third Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Bierlein Companies Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · Michigan Health Endowment Fund

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 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.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 114 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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