· Public charity
Citizens for Energizing Michigan's Economy
Conduct research and develop an educational plan and materials and present these findings to the general public in regards to energy and economic policy.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 83% of CITIZENS FOR ENERGIZING MICHIGAN'S ECONOMY’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
- $250k+3 grants · $750k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BULIDING A BETTER ECONOMY | $250,000 |
| MICHIGAN EMPOWERMENT FUND | $250,000 |
| ROAD TO MICHIGAN'S FUTURE | $250,000 |
| MAKING MICHIGAN STRONGER | $150,000 |
| MICHIGAN VALUES | $50,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 97% of your 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 +8% since the first grant, against -69% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $400k 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
- RTRoad to Michigan's Future3× · 2020–2024 · $650k · revenue +20%
- SGSTATE GOVERNMENT LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2022 · $600k · revenue +21%
- GLGREAT LAKES JOBS ALLIANCE2× · 2018–2022 · $500k · revenue +173% · 67% of their budget
Funded once
- FCFAITHFUL CONSERVATIVES FOR MICHIGANone grant, 2018 · $5.5M
- MMMAKE MICHIGAN FIRSTone grant, 2018 · $467k · revenue -97% · 80% of their budget
- MDMICHIGAN DEMOCRATIC STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEEone grant, 2018 · $325k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Protecting Michigans Future Fund and the most unlike its peers is Our Neighborhoods First. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
24 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. 24 of the 29 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 FAITHFUL CONSERVATIVES FOR MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Road to Michigan's Future ↗
- Who funds STATE GOVERNMENT LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREAT LAKES JOBS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds MAKE MICHIGAN FIRST ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds JOBS FOR MICHIGAN COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Building a Better Economy ↗
- Who funds Making Government Accountable ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN EMPOWERMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds Reinvent Michigan Fund ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS FOR A BETTER MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN MADE GREAT FUND ↗
- Who funds Michigan Values ↗
- Who funds MAKING MICHIGAN STRONGER ↗
- Who funds BULDING MICHIGANS FUTURE ↗
- Who funds Protecting Michigans Future Fund ↗
- Who funds STATE SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA FUND ↗
- Who funds OUR NEIGHBORHOODS FIRST ↗
- Who funds MICHIGANS TOMORROW ↗
- Who funds GOPAC EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Preserve Michigans Future Fund ↗
- Who funds INTEGRITY IN GOVERNMENT FUND ↗
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: Michigan Energy First · Michigan Health & Hospital Association Dba Mha · Coalition to Promote Public Entity Risk Pools · Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America · Michigan Beer & Wine Wholesalers Assn · Michigan Health Leadership Fund · Michigan Values · Building a Better Economy · Michigan Citizens for Better Health · Sports Betting Alliance
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 Citizens for Energizing Michigan's Economy 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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