· Private foundation
Cms Energy Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
77% of Cms Energy Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Community Foundation Of Greater Flint, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER FLINT | $125,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER FLINT | $30,000 |
| ONE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MUSIC HALL CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $25,000 |
| FOOD GATHERERS | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 83% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 11 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER FLINT ↗
- Who funds DEARBORN EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ONE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC HALL CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD GATHERERS ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS UCP NORTH CAROLINA & VIRGINIA INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cms Energy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cms Energy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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