· Public charity
Food Bank Council of Michigan Inc
Alleviate and prevent hunger amongst Michigan residents.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Food Bank of Eastern Michigan | $4,203,873 |
| Feeding America West Michigan | $3,695,111 |
| Gleaners Community Food Bank | $3,519,467 |
| Forgotten Harvest | $3,010,632 |
| South Michigan Food Bank | $1,730,774 |
| Greater Lansing Food Bank | $1,355,769 |
| UPCAP | $592,628 |
| Food Gatherers | $592,177 |
| Copper Shores | $402,309 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $593k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $995k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FBFood Bank of Eastern Michigan9× · 2017–2025 · $21M · revenue +43%
- FAFEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN9× · 2017–2025 · $18M · revenue +38%
FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC9× · 2017–2025 · $17M · revenue +12%
Funded once
- USUPCAP SERVICES INCgraduatedone grant, 2025 · $593k · revenue +69%
- CSCOPPER SHORES COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2025 · $402k · revenue ×16
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Alleviate and prevent hunger amongst Michigan residents.
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How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Food Bank of Eastern Michigan ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds GREATER LANSING FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FOOD GATHERERS ↗
- Who funds UPCAP SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COPPER SHORES COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Food Bank Council of Michigan Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Food Bank Council of Michigan Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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