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Credit Unions Chartered in the State of Michigan
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What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 66% of CREDIT UNIONS CHARTERED IN THE STATE OF MICHIGAN’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 32 grants below total $448,177 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $771,845 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $323,668 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $79k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $369k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $46,000 |
| KALAMAZOO BASEBALL LLC | $42,383 |
| YWCA | $37,537 |
| VAN WAGNER TWELVE HOLDINGS LLC | $31,500 |
| EL CONCILIO HISPANIC AMERICAN COUNCIL | $20,758 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS A COMMUNITY OF CARING | $20,000 |
| ADVIA FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY HOMEWORKS | $15,000 |
| ECHO INC | $11,000 |
| MINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY | $10,000 |
| KEEPING FAMILIES COVERED | $10,000 |
| BRONSON HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| FIRST DAY SHOE FUND | $10,000 |
| MACOMB COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $10,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
11 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $233k 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
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN4× · 2019–2024 · $48k · revenue +33%- AFADVIA FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $45k · revenue +18% · 29% of their budget
- FHFamily Health Partnership Clinic2× · 2023–2024 · $18k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- CCCEREAL CITY BASEBALL LLCone grant, 2021 · $13k
- ECELKHORN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & TOURISM CENTER INCone grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue -15%
- ESECUMENICAL SENIOR CENTER INCone grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +17%
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.
The mission of the kalamazoo foundation for excellence is to support the goals of the city of kalamazoo, fund aspirational investments in the city, and empower kalamazoo residents to achieve the lives they want for themselves and their…
Southwest michigan community action agency's purpose is to provide assistance to low income individuals in southwest michigan
To assist people with low or moderate income to obtain safe and affordable housing
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
To improve lives by sharing community resources
A community in which people have access to food and resources to foster self-sufficiency
By utilizing and bringing together community resources the willmar area food shelf will provide food assistance to individuals and families. our goal is to insure no one goes hungry.
Activating inclusive programs, resources, and physical space to support our community's diverse entrepreneurs and small business owners.
It is the mission of Kalamazoo Neighborhood Housing Services (KNHS), together with residents and community partners, to revitalize neighborhoods and promote comprehensive strategies that foster homeownership.
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.…
The mission of the kalamazoo humane society is to nuture the wellbeing of animals and people in our communities.
To assure housing for socially and economically vulnerable residents of kalamazoo county.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kalamazoo Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Advia Foundation. 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 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 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 39 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 BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ADVIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KALAMAZOO MI ↗
- Who funds HOME BUILDERS ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOMEWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC AMERICAN COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Family Health Partnership Clinic ↗
- Who funds DRIVE FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds EVERYONE COOPERATING TO HELP OTHERS INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST DAY SHOE FUND ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Bronson Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds WALWORTH COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds MID CITY NUTRITION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds MINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN FIRST CORP ↗
- Who funds MACOMB COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO HOUSING ADVOCATES ↗
- Who funds KEEPING FAMILIES COVERED ↗
- Who funds SOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Beloit Meals on Wheels Inc ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE MICHIGAN GREAT LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDING BLOCKS OF KALAMAZOO ↗
- Who funds FISH & LOAVES ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds A BEAUTIFUL ME INC ↗
- Who funds ELKHORN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & TOURISM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ECUMENICAL SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
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: Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation · Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · The Ronda E Stryker and William D Johnston Foundation · The Mercantile Bank Foundation · United Way of South Central Michigan · Enna Foundation · Tyler-Little Family 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 Credit Unions Chartered in the State 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.
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