· Private foundation
Child Welfare Society of Flint
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOOD BANK OF EASTERN MICHIGAN | $24,000 |
| MICHIGAN BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION | $19,500 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $16,500 |
| NGA INC | $15,000 |
| CROSSOVER OUTREACH | $15,000 |
| MOTHERLY INTERCESSION | $15,000 |
| OLD NEWSBOYS OF FLINT | $15,000 |
| YWCA OF GREATER FLINT | $10,000 |
| FLINT INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE & HISTORY | $10,000 |
| FAITH FOUNDATION RESOURCES | $10,000 |
| YMCA | $7,500 |
| FLINT EASTSIDE MISSION | $7,500 |
| NEXT LEVEL EXPERIENCE | $7,500 |
| HURLEY FOUNDATION | $6,500 |
| MICHIGAN CROSSROADS COUNCIL | $6,000 |
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 human-services grants (FY21–25, $62k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 100% 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.
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.
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 +0% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k 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
- FBFood Bank of Eastern Michigan3× · 2022–2025 · $54k · revenue +27%
- NGNational Giving Alliance-Flint Branch2× · 2022–2023 · $24k · revenue +18%
- MIMOTHERLY INTERCESSION2× · 2022–2025 · $21k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- YOYMCA of Greater Flintgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +63%
- TFTHE FLINT CHILDREN'S MUSEUMone grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue -29%
- SOSHELTER OF FLINT INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -3%
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.
Non Profit Art Organization
The flint center for educational excellence is building an educational ecosystem that works for all flint kids by providing programs. research, and advocacy that ensure flint kids, their families, schools, and communities thrive.
To promote the common economic interests of all the commercial enterprises in the Genesee County, Michigan community. The Organization strives to enhance the business climate in the area and advocates for public policy that supports…
To further the welfare of the jewish community
The Flint Institute of Arts Museum + Art School connects diverse communities through fun, creative, and inspiring visual art experiences.
Improve the health of genesee county residents. improve the quality and cost effectiveness of the health care system in our community.
The mission of the flint police foundation is to promote public safety through partnerships that provide resources to help the flint police department perform at its highest level in service to the community. the organization goal is to…
Flint Social Club is to lower access barriers for the Flint food community by mentoring chefs and creating equitable opportunities for growth.
To celebrate and promote our international diversity because it makes us a stronger community
To Influence and enrich student achievement for the students of Flint Community Schools.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ywca of Greater Flint and the most unlike its peers is GEARUP2LEAD. 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 34 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 34 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
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 Food Bank of Eastern Michigan ↗
- Who funds CROSSOVER OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds GEARUP2LEAD ↗
- Who funds OLD NEWSBOYS OF FLINT INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF GREATER FLINT ↗
- Who funds Flint Institute of Science & History ↗
- Who funds National Giving Alliance-Flint Branch ↗
- Who funds Genesee Area Focus Fund ↗
- Who funds MOTHERLY INTERCESSION ↗
- Who funds HURLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ELE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds Flint Institute of Music ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Greater Flint ↗
- Who funds TAPOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds NEXT LEVEL EXPERIENCE ↗
- Who funds THE FLINT CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Faith Foundation Resources ↗
- Who funds SHELTER OF FLINT INC ↗
- Who funds Communities First 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: Stella & Frederick Loeb Charitable Trust · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · The Hagerman Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Flint · Ruth Mott Foundation · Merkley Charitable Trust · Nartel Family Foundation · Anna Paulina Foundation · Burroughs Memorial Trust · The Whiting Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Mackey 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 Child Welfare Society of Flint 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.
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.
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