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Community Foundation of Greater Flint

The organization serves the common good in genesee county - building a strong community by engaging people in philanthropy and developing the community's permanent endowment - now and for generations to come.

$31M
Granted FY2024still arriving
169
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$5.2M
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$17MEducation$16MCommunity Improvement$7.5MHuman Services$4.6MHealth$3.5MRecreation & Sports$3.4MPhilanthropy$3.3MPublic Benefit$1.8MOther$0
02FY2024 · 169 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 169 grants below total $14,692,387, the rows itemized in this filing. The $30,956,670 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $16,264,283 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k51 grants · $373k
  • $10k–50k83 grants · $1.6M
  • $50k–250k26 grants · $2.5M
  • $250k+9 grants · $10M
$15,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$314M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FLINT CENTER FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE$5,190,091
FLINT CULTURAL CENTER CORPORATION$1,395,984
GENESEE COUNTY PARKS & RECREATION COMMISSION$851,474
FLINT INSTITUTE OF MUSIC$705,421
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY$549,178
FLINT INSTITUTE OF ARTS$506,923
CITY OF FLINT$417,000
FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY$300,000
UNITED WAY OF GENESEE COUNTY$267,373
FLINT AND GENESEE CHAMBER FOUNDATION$196,690
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN-FLINT$160,628
COMMUNITIES FIRST INC$150,369
RL JONES COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER$150,000
CHILD CARE NETWORK WASHTENAW REGIONAL 4C$150,000
CITY OF FENTON$132,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $3.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $40k → 9%CHILD CARE NETWORK WASHTENAW REGIONAL 4C: $150k → 14%The Serenity House of Flint: $36k → 16%Child Care Network: $85k → 14%One Love Global Inc: $29k → 16%Child Care Network: $50k → 14%ROAD TO SUCCESSES: $30k → 18%MICHIGAN BREASTFEEDING NETWORK: $90k → 16%Samaritas: $41k → 21%MICHIGAN BREASTFEEDING NETWORK: $75k → 16%MICHIGAN BREASTFEEDING NETWORK: $41k → 16%HOLLY AREA VETERANS RESOURCE CENTER: $30k → 8%Easter Seals - Michigan Inc: $64k → 8%Easter Seals - Michigan Inc: $56k → 8%Easter Seals - Michigan Inc: $47k → 8%Easter Seals - Michigan Inc: $41k → 8%EASTER SEALS - MICHIGAN INC: $35k → 8%EASTER SEALS - MICHIGAN INC: $34k → 8%EASTER SEALS - MICHIGAN INC: $33k → 8%Easter Seals - Michigan Inc: $32k → 8%HOSPICE HOMES OF GENESEE AND LAPEER COUNTIES: $45k → 16%Crossover Downtown Outreach Ministry: $90k → 16%Whaley Children's Center: $73k → 16%WHALEY CHILDREN'S CENTER: $65k → 16%Whaley Children's Center: $63k → 16%Family Service Agency of Mid Michigan: $50k → 16%The Serenity House of Flint: $50k → 16%Whaley Children's Center: $45k → 16%Whaley Children's Center: $44k → 16%WHALEY CHILDREN'S CENTER: $36k → 16%CROSSOVER OUTREACH: $35k → 16%CROSSOVER OUTREACH: $33k → 16%Whaley Children's Center: $33k → 16%CROSSOVER OUTREACH: $33k → 16%Crossover Downtown Outreach Ministry: $29k → 16%Crossover Downtown Outreach Ministry: $25k → 16%Franklin Avenue Mission Inc: $28k → 16%PRISM PROJECT: $36k → 16%YWCA of Greater Flint: $88k → 16%Ennis Center for Children Inc: $67k → 16%YWCA of Greater Flint: $60k → 16%YWCA OF GREATER FLINT: $50k → 16%Ennis Center for Children Inc: $36k → 16%YWCA of Greater Flint: $32k → 16%RL JONES COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER: $150k → 16%Friends of Berston: $48k → 16%WITHOUT WALLS OUTREACH: $27k → 16%FRIENDS OF BERSTON: $27k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
NV
OH
PA
CA
KY
VA
TN
NC
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$63M · 208 repeat orgs$3.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

208 repeat relationships: 131 still active in FY2024, 77 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

208
120

Total granted

$63M
$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+11%

Still filing today

68%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $809k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • FC
    FLINT CENTER FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $9.1M · revenue +154% · 100% of their budget
  • FC
    Flint Cultural Center Corporation
    8× · 2017–2024 · $8.1M · revenue +23%
  • FI
    Flint Institute of Music
    8× · 2017–2024 · $4.7M · revenue +122%

Funded once

  • LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $210k · revenue +80%
  • FC
    Flint Community Schools
    one grant, 2019 · $75k
  • MN
    MICHIGAN NONPROFIT ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2019 · $75k · revenue -58%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

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.

1
Flint & Genesee Group

With a mission to maximize economic and community growth through collaborative partnerships and promotion of the region, the Organization aims to strengthen the local economy and create a place where people thrive, and businesses invest…

Community Improvement
2
Child Welfare Society of Flint
—
3
The Michigan Glass Project
Public Benefit
4
Community Pride Mi
Public Benefit
5
About Face Detroit
—
6
Greater Lansing Destination Development Foundation
Community Improvement
7
Family Outreach Center

Leading the way in promoting healthy family living by reaching out to underserved populations and those who are in our community.

—
8
Michigan Center of Accountability for Republicans

Social welfare and issue advocacy

Civil Rights
9
Center for Family Health

The mission of the Center for Family Health is opening the door to health care for all.

Health
10
Michigan First Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
11
Harvest Theatre Company

Harvest Theatre Co is a professional theatre and training program for Flint youth ages 13-19 years old. We use the theatrical arts to instill confidence, self worth, and discipline in the most vulnerable population of our city. In 2022 we…

Arts & Culture
12
Michigan Family Resources

Michigan Family Resources mission is to deliver holistic family-centered services to children that promote their well-being and development.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ennis Center for Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Beats X Books. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

234 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. 234 of the 366 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.

27
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
66
Early backer (in before they grew)
224/234
Grantees still filing
139/234
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Flint Cultural Center Corporation: $8,114,236 · Arts & CultureFlint Cultural Center Corporat…Flint Institute of Music: $4,739,575 · Arts & CultureFlint Institute of MusicFlint Institute of Arts: $2,957,596 · Arts & CultureFlint Institute of Arts+10 more: $1,352,050 · Arts & Culture+10 moreFlint and Genesee Group Foundation: $2,754,242 · OtherFlint and Genesee Group FoundationREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $1,735,200 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANTHE CRIM FITNESS FOUNDATION INC: $1,668,004 · OtherTHE CRIM FITNESS FOUNDATION INCGENESEE COUNTY PARKS & RECREATION COMMISSION: $1,608,614 · OtherGENESEE COUNTY PARKS & RECREATION COMMISS…CITY OF FLINT: $1,230,478 · OtherMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $1,029,548 · OtherCommunities First Inc: $1,150,783 · OtherHURLEY FOUNDATION: $957,753 · Other+103 more: $11,365,382 · Other+103 moreFLINT CENTER FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE: $9,091,341 · EducationFLINT CENTER FOR ED…FOUNDATION FOR MOTT COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $1,127,540 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR MOTT…+11 more: $683,845 · Education+11 moreUNITED WAY OF GENESEE COUNTY: $2,368,327 · PhilanthropyMICHIGAN ORGANIZING PROJECT: $806,176 · PhilanthropyFOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC: $300,000 · PhilanthropyTHE FLINT DIAPER BANK INC: $171,260 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN: $150,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $149,735 · PhilanthropyWhaley Children's Center Inc: $371,983 · Human ServicesEASTERSEALS MORC HEALTH CARE INC: $341,637 · Human ServicesChild Care Network: $324,000 · Human ServicesYWCA OF GREATER FLINT: $291,146 · Human ServicesMICHIGAN BREASTFEEDING NETWORK: $254,500 · Human ServicesCROSSOVER OUTREACH: $249,949 · Human ServicesRL JONES COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER: $177,500 · Human ServicesThe Serenity House of Flint: $150,745 · Human ServicesInvolvedDad: $146,455 · Human ServicesENNIS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC: $122,950 · Human Services+22 more: $1,082,774 · Human ServicesSYLVESTER BROOME EMPOWERMENT VILLAGE: $754,005 · Community ImprovementNEIGHBORHOOD ENGAGEMENT HUB: $705,723 · Community ImprovementMetro Community DevelopmentInc: $455,111 · Community ImprovementCommunity Based Organization Partners: $331,145 · Community ImprovementLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $209,750 · Community ImprovementURBAN RENAISSANCE CENTER: $165,991 · Community ImprovementASBURY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $127,000 · Community ImprovementFlint Rotary Charitable Foundation: $124,047 · Community Improvement+2 more: $192,250 · Community ImprovementGREATER FLINT HEALTH COALITION INC: $340,168 · HealthWELLNESS AIDS SERVICES INC: $305,260 · HealthGenesee Health Plan: $189,370 · HealthCOMMUNICATION ACCESS CENTER FOR THE DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING INC: $169,750 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN: $158,959 · HealthGENESYS HURLEY CANCER INSTITUTE: $153,850 · HealthEVERGREEN COMMUNITY DEVELOPEMENT IN: $119,024 · HealthMCLAREN FLINT FOUNDATION: $72,500 · HealthTHE RAINBOW CONNECTION: $60,000 · Health+5 more: $229,127 · Health
Arts & Culture$17,163,457Other$23,500,004Education$10,902,726Philanthropy$3,945,498Human Services$3,513,639Community Improvement$3,065,022Health$1,798,008

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFLINT CENTER FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE: $9,091,341 over 2y, 100% of budgetFlint Cultural Center Corporation: $8,114,236 over 8y, 11% of budgetFlint Institute of Music: $4,739,575 over 8y, 8.1% of budgetFlint Institute of Arts: $2,957,596 over 8y, 6.3% of budgetFlint and Genesee Group Foundation: $2,754,242 over 8y, 44% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GENESEE COUNTY: $2,368,327 over 8y, 7.4% of budgetTHE CRIM FITNESS FOUNDATION INC: $1,668,004 over 8y, 6.5% of budgetCommunities First Inc: $1,150,783 over 8y, 10% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR MOTT COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $1,127,540 over 8y, 19% of budgetHURLEY FOUNDATION: $957,753 over 8y, 6.7% of budgetMICHIGAN ORGANIZING PROJECT: $806,176 over 5y, 8.3% of budgetSYLVESTER BROOME EMPOWERMENT VILLAGE: $754,005 over 6y, 14% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD ENGAGEMENT HUB: $705,723 over 8y, 39% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SHIAWASSEE AND GENESEE COUNTIES: $670,361 over 8y, 6.3% of budgetMetro Community DevelopmentInc: $455,111 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetFood Bank of Eastern Michigan: $454,418 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTHE FLINT CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $432,221 over 8y, 9.7% of budgetWhaley Children's Center Inc: $371,983 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetYMCA of Greater Flint: $368,398 over 7y, 6.4% of budgetFlint Innovative Solutions: $365,697 over 5y, 90% of budgetEASTERSEALS MORC HEALTH CARE INC: $341,637 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER FLINT HEALTH COALITION INC: $340,168 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER FLINT: $340,029 over 8y, 5.1% of budgetCommunity Based Organization Partners: $331,145 over 5y, 53% of budgetChild Care Network: $324,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetWELLNESS AIDS SERVICES INC: $305,260 over 5y, 9.5% of budgetFOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC: $300,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetYWCA OF GREATER FLINT: $291,146 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $273,750 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetMICHIGAN BREASTFEEDING NETWORK: $254,500 over 6y, 8.4% of budgetGenesee County Habitat for Humanity: $250,234 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetCROSSOVER OUTREACH: $249,949 over 7y, 17% of budgetFlint Institute of Science & History: $248,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetSHELTER OF FLINT INC: $245,354 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetFLINT FRESH MOBILE MARKET: $224,442 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetMOTHERLY INTERCESSION: $221,718 over 4y, 19% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN ADVOCACY: $219,130 over 6y, 18% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $209,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTAPOLOGY INC: $204,863 over 4y, 26% of budgetGenesee Health Plan: $189,370 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetRL JONES COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER: $177,500 over 4y, 25% of budgetCarriage Town Ministries: $175,880 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetCOURT STREET VILLAGE NON-PROFIT HOUSING CORPORATION: $173,367 over 6y, 98% of budgetTHE FLINT DIAPER BANK INC: $171,260 over 5y, 50% of budgetCOMMUNICATION ACCESS CENTER FOR THE DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING INC: $169,750 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetURBAN RENAISSANCE CENTER: $165,991 over 4y, 24% of budgetFaith Foundation Resources: $165,903 over 4y, 21% of budgetHISPANIC TECHNOLOGY & COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER FLINT: $165,184 over 5y, 18% of budget
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 FLINT CENTER FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE ↗
  • Who funds Flint Cultural Center Corporation ↗
  • Who funds Flint Institute of Music ↗
  • Who funds Flint Institute of Arts ↗
  • Who funds Flint and Genesee Group Foundation ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GENESEE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds THE CRIM FITNESS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Communities First Inc ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR MOTT COMMUNITY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds HURLEY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MICHIGAN ORGANIZING PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds SYLVESTER BROOME EMPOWERMENT VILLAGE ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD ENGAGEMENT HUB ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SHIAWASSEE AND GENESEE COUNTIES ↗
  • Who funds Metro Community DevelopmentInc ↗
  • Who funds Food Bank of Eastern Michigan ↗
  • Who funds THE FLINT CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds Whaley Children's Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds YMCA of Greater Flint ↗
  • Who funds Flint Innovative Solutions ↗
  • Who funds EASTERSEALS MORC HEALTH CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER FLINT HEALTH COALITION INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER FLINT ↗
  • Who funds Community Based Organization Partners ↗
  • Who funds Child Care Network ↗
  • Who funds WELLNESS AIDS SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
  • Who funds YWCA OF GREATER FLINT ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds MICHIGAN BREASTFEEDING NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds Genesee County Habitat for Humanity ↗
  • Who funds CROSSOVER OUTREACH ↗
  • Who funds Flint Institute of Science & History ↗
  • Who funds SHELTER OF FLINT 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.

Ruth Mott FoundationMI114.3× affinity55 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ruth Mott Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Foundation for Flint · United Way of Genesee County · Stella & Frederick Loeb Charitable Trust · The Serra Foundation · The Hagerman Foundation · Anna Paulina Foundation · Nartel Family Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Williamson Foundation Inc · Merkley Charitable Trust

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Community Foundation of Greater Flint funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Foundation of Greater Flint. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    50report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 366 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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