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Economic Justice Alliance of Michigan

To advance economic justice in Michigan

$310k
Granted FY2020
5
Grants FY2020
5
Organizations funded FY2020
20%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$60,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$70,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 8
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
3
Total assets, FY2020
$29k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 20% of the organizations Economic Justice Alliance of Michigan funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20205$310k20%
FY20197$330k0%
FY20187$348k0%
FY20178$337kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Civil Rights$539kCommunity Improvement$336kEmployment$228kPublic Benefit$221k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Restaurant Opportunities Centers United Inc$228,10041%
The Ezekiel Project$201,933447%
Third Sector New England Inc$186,10040%
Mothering Justice$186,100413%
Pontiac Policy Action Fund$151,0333n/a
Michigan Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Network$150,9333n/a
Moses (Metropolitan Organizing Strategy Enabling Strength)$116,10037%
North End Woodward Community Coalition$34,100117%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($70k), not named here.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Tides Foundation
Tides FoundationCA12.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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How do I get to Economic Justice Alliance of Michigan?

Find your warmest path to Economic Justice Alliance of Michigan 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.

About Economic Justice Alliance of Michigan

How much does Economic Justice Alliance of Michigan give?
Economic Justice Alliance of Michigan reported 5 grants totaling $310,000 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does Economic Justice Alliance of Michigan fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Civil Rights (41%), Community Improvement (25%), Employment (17%).
Who are Economic Justice Alliance of Michigan's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: Restaurant Opportunities Centers United Inc ($228k), The Ezekiel Project ($202k), Third Sector New England Inc ($186k).
Does Economic Justice Alliance of Michigan fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Economic Justice Alliance of Michigan?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tides Foundation.
Where is Economic Justice Alliance of Michigan based?
Economic Justice Alliance of Michigan is based in MI.

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 9 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $40k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2020, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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