How much did Consumers Energy Foundation grant in FY2024?

Community Improvement$9.2MPhilanthropy$8.8MHuman Services$4.2MEducation$3.2MEnvironment$2.9MArts & Culture$2.1MHousing & Shelter$2.1MPublic Benefit$2.0MOther$0

02FY2024 · 296 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k175 grants · $563k
$10k–50k86 grants · $1.8M
$50k–250k26 grants · $2.6M
$250k+9 grants · $2.5M

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$67M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
GRAND ACTION 20	$500,000
UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN	$290,700
SIX RIVERS REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY	$250,000
CITY OF WEST BRANCH	$250,000
COMMUNITY FOOD CLUBS	$250,000
MICHIGAN WOMEN'S FOUNDATION	$250,000
Individual grant recipient	$250,000
Individual grant recipient	$250,000
PKL CARES	$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
GLADWIN CONSERVATION DISTRICT	$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, $3.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. 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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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.

Where the work is directed

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

About 13% 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 85% — 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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$27M · 355 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

355 repeat relationships — 163 still active in FY2024, 192 since wound down; 85 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

355

658

Total granted

$27M

$8.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%

+29%

Still filing today

74%

57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.8M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther

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

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THE MICHIGAN WOMEN'S FOUNDATION
5× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +83%
FI
FIRST IN MICHIGAN
5× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +43%
HF
Habitat for Humanity of Michigan Inc
5× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +290%

Funded once

MM
MID MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INCgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $450k · revenue +78%
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2023 · $250k
CA
CHEBOYGAN AREA ARTS COUNCIL INCgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +44% · 50% of their budget

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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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

Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…

Environment

Area Agency On Aging of Western Michigan Inc

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

Business Leaders for Michigan

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

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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

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…

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211 Northeast Michigan

To provide Northeast Michigan with referrals and information to assist with essential needs.

Community Improvement

Northwest Michigan Community Action

The organization's mission is to foster positive change by providing opportunities that promote self-sufficiency, improving the quality of life and building stronger, more connected communitites. northwest michigan community action agency,…

Human Services

Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

Community Improvement

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

Great Lakes Community Action Partnership

The mission of great lakes community action partnership is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Four County 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 32 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 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.5%5/929

the rest of the field

12%

6,506/52,927

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.

05the grantee network

758 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. 758 of the 1,147 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

223

Early backer (in before they grew)

731/758

Grantees still filing

517/758

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$17,458,261Community Improvement$5,571,000Philanthropy$5,305,470Human Services$3,378,511Education$1,837,850Housing & Shelter$1,634,573Arts & Culture$1,390,600

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 FoundationMI140.1× affinity175 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 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

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

85report 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

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Consumers Energy Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Consumers Energy Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home