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FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN
We gather and distribute food to relieve hunger and increase food security in west michigan and the upper peninsula.
$50M
Granted FY2024
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Communities
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Largest
01What you fund
01beneath 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
2018
synoddiversechurch northcolomaconferencepentecostalraising
2019
hand handhager parkpark reformedtefacrc pantryoakdale parkraising
2020
crc pantrywesleyliteracycorpnoor's heavenchurch nazareneinspired gospel
2021
senliteracyguiding lightpacksinspired gospelgospel valuesvalues growing
2022
eightcapcaampositive optionsveteransliteracyfoundation's raiseraise steward
2023
poor needyneedy financialfinancial materialadministers governmentalgovernmental lowincome elderlyelderly population
2024
poor needyneedy financialfinancial materialinstancesfederalages meansmeans advocacy
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
02FY2024
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
Grant detail is referenced in an attached schedule not included in the e-file. Total reported in the filing: $49,920,709.
$0
Median grant
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States reached
$32M
Total assets
02The need
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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.
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.
03Your 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.
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Midland County Food Assistance
To operate a network of food pantries to provide food to those in need.
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Otsego County Community Food Pantry
Mission is to provide food to in need famlieis of otsego county as well as weekend food to in need children
Food & Nutrition
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Agewell Services of West Michigan
Agewell services mission is to promote healthy aging and maximize independence through nutrition, wellness, and supportive services in the community.
Food & Nutrition
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Society of St Vincent De Paul St Joseph
To provide food to County families and individuals who currently live at or below the Federal Poverty guidelines
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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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Hubbard County Food Shelf
Receive and dispense food to needy clients
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Geneseo-Atkinson Food Pantry
The Christian mission of the Geneseo-Atkinson food Pantry is to provide food, clothing, and short-term emergency assistance for families and individuals residing in Geneseo (61254) or Atkinson (61235) zip code areas.
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Movement West Michigan
Uniting christian faith leaders to serve with humility and love for the flourishing of all in our community.
Religion
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Mid-County United Ministries
To provide perishable and non-perishable food to people who are experiencing food insecurity and to provide emergency financial assistance to prevent evictions, utility shutoffs and prescription drugs.
Human Services
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Networks Cooperative Ministry Inc
the mission of networks cooperative ministry, inc. is to respond with the hospitality of christ to the food and financial needs of residents and to partner with them to find long-term solutions to poverty.
Religion
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Love Your Neighbor of West Michigan
Following Jesus Christ, who transforms lives, Love Your Neighbor equips our community to love, serve and connect with dignity.
Unclassified
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Outreach East
At Outreach East, our mission is simple yet powerful: to ensure no neighbor in our community has to go without life's essentials. We are a non-denominational, community-based nonprofit serving families in Davison, Burton, Goodrich,…
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Project Hope of Northeast Allegan County and the most unlike its peers is Indian Trails Camp. 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 33 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
3%13/417
the rest of the field
8%
894/11,051
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.
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.
Grand Rapids Community FoundationMI88.1× affinity61 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · Corewell Health Group Return · Fremont Area Community Foundation · Berrien Community Foundation Inc · Spartannash Foundation · Frey Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · Grand Haven Area Community · The Meijer Foundation · Cdv5 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.
04Through Plinth
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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.
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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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