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Community Economic Development Association of Michigan
The COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION OF MICHIGAN (cedam) supports its diverse membership to create vibrant, sustainable and resilient communities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 23 grants below total $1,721,840 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,931,342 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $209,502 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $252k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $885k
- $250k+1 grant · $550k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ACCOUNTING AID SOCIETY | $550,017 |
| GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF CENTRAL MICHIGAN'S HEARTLAND | $145,603 |
| UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN | $126,501 |
| HEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY | $125,039 |
| NORTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY | $116,000 |
| WAYNE METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY | $92,519 |
| UNITED WAY OF MARQUETTE COUNTY | $92,065 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY | $87,058 |
| UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN | $50,000 |
| SOUTHWEST ORGANIZATIONS UNIFYING RESOURCES FOR OUR COMMUNITIES AND EMPLOYER | $50,000 |
| DEVOTA ADVOCACY SERVICES | $45,000 |
| MACOMB COUNTY VETERAN SERVICES | $38,704 |
| BARRY COUNTY UNITED WAY | $35,677 |
| GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF WEST MICHIGAN | $35,000 |
| MID MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY | $34,581 |
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 (FY22–25, $407k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 41% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 -18% since the first grant, against -22% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 8 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; $432k 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
Accounting Aid Society4× · 2022–2025 · $952k · revenue +32%
UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN3× · 2022–2025 · $315k · revenue +119%
Wayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc3× · 2022–2025 · $263k · revenue -64%
Funded once
Michigan Association of United Ways Incone grant, 2018 · $62k · revenue -88%- CACOMMUNITY ACTION HOUSEone grant, 2024 · $27k · revenue +21%
- UWUNITED WAY OF GENESEE COUNTYone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -22%
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.
United way provides leadership and resources to improve the quality of life in our community by generating revenue, creating awareness and engaging volunteers.
United way of southwest michigan works in berrien, cass, and van buren counties to sustain a united community where everyone contributes, belongs, and thrives.
Through internal expertise, external partnerships, and advocacy, the area agency on aging of western michigan provides older adults, adults with disabilities, and their caregivers equitable access to services that promote independence and…
United way of the midlands mission is "we unite our community's caring spirit to build a stronger tomorrow".
United way's mission is to improve lives.
In order to mobilize community resources to help people measurably improve their lives - we work collaboratively with our community to identify priorities, and then decide which strategies, dollars, and partnerships should be used to bring…
United way connects people and resources to improve the quality of life in the midlands. united way invests in a broad range of community programs that increase access to health care, improve student success, assist people in crisis to…
We improve lives and build stronger chippewa valley communities by bringing resources together to advance the common good.
To apply the principles of workforce development to grow michigan's economy while improving the lives of michigan workers.
Uniting our community to empower individuals and families to thrive.
United Way improves lives by uniting the caring power of our community.
Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Michigan Community Action and the most unlike its peers is Devota Advocacy Services. 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 55 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
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 Accounting Aid Society ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Wayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc ↗
- Who funds HEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF CENTRAL MICHIGAN'S HEARTLAND INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MARQUETTE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BARRY COUNTY UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds LAPEER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Michigan Association of United Ways Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MUSKEGON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Fremont Area Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST ORGANIZATIONS UNIFYING RESOURCES FOR OUR COMMUNITY AND EMPLOYEE ↗
- Who funds Devota Advocacy Services ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF LAPEER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MID MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF WEST MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION HOUSE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GENESEE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE ALLEGAN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN GATEWAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS ↗
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: Consumers Energy Foundation · Dte Energy Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Flagstar Foundation Inc · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Heart of West Michigan United Way · Tr Ua Fifth Third Foundation · Comerica Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Michigan Community Action Inc · Council of Michigan Foundations
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 Community Economic Development Association of Michigan 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.