· Public charity
Flint and Genesee Chamber Foundation
The Flint & Genesee Foundation's purpose is to receive and administer funds for educational, scientific and charitable purposes and for public welfare of Genesee County, Michigan.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| PESTOS INC | $19,733 |
| 635 S SAGINAW LLC DBA THE CORK ON | $18,643 |
| BIG ENTERPRISES DBA B'S BOWLING CEN | $17,750 |
| FLINT CREPE COMPANY LLC | $17,436 |
| REDWOOD BREWING CO INC DBA REDWOOD | $17,393 |
| HOFFMAN'S DECO DELI & CAFE LLC | $17,393 |
| RACHEL HOUGEN DBA SEMI-SWEETS LLC | $17,393 |
| FIRESIDE COFFEE COMPANY INC | $17,393 |
| STARITA-BLACKSTONE'S SMOKEHOUSE | $17,392 |
| DTFNT INC DBA CHURCHILL'S FOOD & SP | $17,253 |
| ITALIA GARDENS INC | $16,375 |
| Individual grant recipient | $16,200 |
| JACKIE RAE EARLEY DBA COMPUNINJAS | $16,000 |
| FLINT FARMERS MARKET LLC | $15,768 |
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 (FY20–20, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 85% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +97% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.
84 repeat relationships — 84 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 220 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.3M 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
- S4SOUTH 401 INC DBA SOUTH 401 RESTAU2× · 2020–2021 · $35k
- O3OWOSSO 3 CINEMA INC2× · 2020–2021 · $35k
- LHLAKEVIEW HILLS COUNTRY CLUB LTD2× · 2020–2021 · $35k
Funded once
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANone grant, 2020 · $221k
- MCMott Community Collegeone grant, 2020 · $90k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $74k
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.
Youth baseball and softball recreational league
The organization's mission is to promote a healthy business climate for its members and all businesses in macomb county, michigan.
To promote the common economic interests of all the commercial enterprises in the Genesee County, Michigan community. The Organization strives to enhance the business climate in the area and advocates for public policy that supports…
To promote business and community growth and development and prepserve the competitive enterprise system of business.
Operate and maintain public golf course in the detroit lakes area; provide recreation for all ages
The mission of the Latinx Technology and Community Center is to enhance the dignity and quality of life for the Flint & Genesee County Latinx community and other cultures
To provide housing and end of life care and support to terminally ill individuals.
To preserve and convey the history of oakland county mi
To help women, men, and children live without fear of violence within their home.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Advocacy Center of Lapeer Co and the most unlike its peers is Early Bird Books. 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.
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 30 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 906 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
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Flint · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Nartel Family Foundation · Ruth Mott Foundation · Burroughs Memorial Trust · Merkley Charitable Trust · The Hagerman Foundation · Anna Paulina Foundation · Stella & Frederick Loeb Charitable Trust · Foundation for Flint · United Way of Genesee County · Comerica Charitable 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 Flint and Genesee Chamber 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.
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.