How much did CONSUMERS ENERGY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of CONSUMERS ENERGY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

covid specialspecial program-designatedprogram-designated foodcovid reliefretiree volunteeremergency reliefrelief special

2021

retiree volunteeremployee retireecaring volunteerheritageethics action-individualinnovationthomas township

2022

yourcause fbofbo blackbaudblackbaud givingde&i pilotethics action-individualcaring awardaction-individual caring

2023

volunteer processedprocessed bbgf-matchingbbgf-matching vipsdei pilot-phasewintereveryhead

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 290 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k170 grants · $554k
$10k–50k85 grants · $1.8M
$50k–250k26 grants · $2.6M
$250k+9 grants · $2.5M

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$67M

Total assets

Largest grants

GRAND ACTION 20$500,000
UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN$290,700
COMMUNITY FOOD CLUBS$250,000
MICHIGAN WOMEN'S FOUNDATION$250,000
MUSKEGON COUNTY PARKS$250,000
PKL CARES$250,000
SIX RIVERS REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY$250,000
CITY OF WEST BRANCH$250,000
MUNDY TOWNSHIP$250,000
FIRST IN MICHIGAN$228,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF MICHIGAN INC$200,000
YOURCAUSE FBO THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND$167,317
CRANBROOK INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE$150,000
LAKESHORE ADVANTAGE FOUNDATION$125,000
COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION OF MICHIGAN$100,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $3.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 11%. 77% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 9% of CONSUMERS ENERGY FOUNDATION’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in MI; read by stated purpose it is 86% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

CONSUMERS ENERGY FOUNDATIONlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$29M · 390 repeat orgs$12M to everyone else

390 repeat relationships — 177 still active in FY2024, 213 since wound down; 88 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

390

687

Total granted

$29M

$8.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%

+52%

Still filing today

71%

52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.0M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesPhilanthropyEducationCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsOther

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

MW
MICHIGAN WOMEN'S FOUNDATION
5× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +72%
FI
FIRST IN MICHIGAN
5× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +49%
HF
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF MICHIGAN INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +18%

Funded once

MM
MID MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCYgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $450k · revenue +106%
OD
OXFORD DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
one grant, 2022 · $250k
TS
THE STOREHOUSE OF COMMUNITY RESOURCESgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +546%

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

04Your field

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.

Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

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Michigan Community Capital

The mission of michigan community capital is to provide low-cost, flexible financial products coupled with advisory services to create and preserve affordable housing and invest in job-creating, community-driven economic development…

Community Improvement

Saginaw County Chamber of Commerce

To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.

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Land Conservancy of West Michigan

The Land Conservancy of West Michigan exists to help people protect, enjoy and care for natural land in West Michigan.

Environment

Economic Justice Alliance of Michigan

To advance economic justice in michigan

Public Benefit

Crossroads of Michigan

To care for any person in need by providing counseling, advocacy and material assistance when possible and appropriate, and to respond to other human needs in the community.

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Area Agency On Aging of Western

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…

Human Services

Michigan Lakes and Streams

Preservation and protection of michigan inland lakes and streams

Environment

Macomb County Chamber of Commerce

The organization's mission is to promote a healthy business climate for its members and all businesses in macomb county, michigan.

Unclassified

United Way of Marquette County

Focusing community resources to meet community needs the United Way of Marquette County works to advance the common good by connecting people with health and human care issues they are concerned about and to provide the oversight the…

—

Michigan Voices

The organization seeks to build civic engagement capacity in progressive nonprofit groups .

Civil Rights

Michigan Community Resources

We advance the missions of michigan nonprofit organizations that serve low income individuals and communities through pro bono and low cost legal and other professional services, organizational development, and trusted guidance.

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fremont Area Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Antique Toy and Firehouse Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.3%2/806

the rest of the field

11%

5,618/53,050

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.

06the grantee network

702 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

274

Early backer (in before they grew)

673/702

Grantees still filing

521/702

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$22,587,799Community Improvement$5,362,900Philanthropy$4,851,405Human Services$3,811,524Housing & Shelter$1,647,121Education$1,484,510Arts & Culture$1,423,040

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.

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.

Dte Energy FoundationMI140.6× affinity150 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dte Energy Foundation · Frey Foundation · Comerica Charitable Foundation · The Mercantile Bank Foundation · The Alvin L Glick Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Heart of West Michigan United Way · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Community Foundation for Muskegon County · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley · Feeding America West Michigan · Michigan Association of United Ways Inc

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 organisation CONSUMERS ENERGY FOUNDATION 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: TRAVERSE CONNECT FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 5.1× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 844874842 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on TRAVERSE CONNECT FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 95% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Consumers Energy Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Consumers Energy Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

CONSUMERS ENERGY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

702 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Consumers Energy Foundation?

More from the funding graph

CONSUMERS ENERGY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

702 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Consumers Energy Foundation?

More from the funding graph