How much did FOUNDATION FOR FLINT grant in FY2024?

FOUNDATION FOR FLINT reported 15 grants totaling $11,091,910 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is FOUNDATION FOR FLINT based?

FOUNDATION FOR FLINT is based in MI.

FOUNDATION FOR FLINT

Foundation Dossiers Also receives grants — funding profile →

· Public charity

FOUNDATION FOR FLINT

Established to assist in flint's emergency and recovery efforts in response to the flint water crisis to serve the long-term health and development needs of flint.

$11M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$50k

Largest

01What you fund

0163% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Human Services$3.2MEducation$1.3MHealth$908kFood & Nutrition$858kPhilanthropy$677kCivil Rights$649kCommunity Improvement$600kArts & Culture$518kYouth Development$502kOther$5.8M

02beneath 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

residentialactivityshelterfccccollaborationssolutionsmedical

2019

collaborationssolutionsmedicalearly childhoodmotteducationcreate

2020

methodistchurchaffordablebuildresilience foodbecome responsiblegrowth

2021

latinxneighborhoodgenesee focusrevitalizationfathersfatheryouth

2022

facilitiesmhfpreprequested ghsneighborhoodrevitalizationcorporation organized

2023

scholarstrongfactacademicsocialhistoryfathers

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k10 grants · $220k
$50k–250k5 grants · $250k

$30,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.6M

Total assets

Largest grants

EL BALLET FOLKLORICO ESTUDIANTIL$50,000
FLINT INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY$50,000
FLINT FREEDOM SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE$50,000
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY$50,000
DEVELOPING RESPECTFUL EDUCATED ASPIRING MINDS WITH SPORTS$50,000
PROJECT SYNCERE$46,500
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER FLINT$41,211
CRIM FITNESS FOUNDATION INC$30,000
HAND OF HOPE - FLM$20,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SHIAWASSEE AND GENESEE COUNTIES$19,000
SAINT MARK COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER$15,000
SISTERS SUPPORTING SISTERS WORLDWIDE$15,000
GOTTAGETIT$13,500
MICHIGAN CROSSROADS COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$10,000
MOTHERS OF JOY INSTITUTE FOR PARENTING AND FAMILY WELLNESS$10,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $3.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 11%. 96% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$12M · 29 repeat orgs$2.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +92% since the first grant, against +73% for the ones you funded once.

29 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$12M

$2.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+92%

+73%

Still filing today

72%

86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $153k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionHealthOther

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

CC
Child Care Network Regional 4C
7× · 2017–2023 · $1.5M · revenue +69%
CS
Charles Stewart Mott Community College
5× · 2017–2022 · $1.0M · revenue +174%
GF
Greater Flint Health Coalition
5× · 2018–2023 · $855k · revenue +163%

Funded once

NF
North Flint Reinvestment Corporationgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $630k · revenue +172% · 34% of their budget
UO
University of Michigan-Flint
one grant, 2017 · $300k
GC
Genesee Chamber Foundationgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $257k · revenue +5804% · 26% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

Flint & Genesee Group

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…

Community Improvement

Flint Center for Educational Excellence

Building an educational ecosystem that works for all flint kids by providing programs, research, and advocacy that ensure flint kids, their families, schools, and communities thrive

Education

Child Welfare Society of Flint

—

Flint Social Club

Flint Social Club is to lower access barriers for the Flint food community by mentoring chefs and creating equitable opportunities for growth.

Employment

Flint Institute of Music

Flint institute of music (fim) awakens and nurtures the creative lives of children, youth and adults. we strive to be a trusted guide through the richly diverse world of the performing arts, and a cornerstone of community connection,…

Arts & Culture

Flint Jewish Federation

To further the welfare of the jewish community

Philanthropy

Flint Cultural Center Foundation

To receive and administer funds and to operate exclusively for the benefit of, and to carry out the purposes of flint cultural center corporation.

Arts & Culture

Foundation for Flint

Established to assist in flint's emergency and recovery efforts in response to the flint water crisis to serve the long-term health and development needs of flint.

Philanthropy

Ferris Wheel Innovation Center

Housed in flint, michigan, we are a non-profit with a mission to relieve the innovator of the entrepreneurial burden. we know entrepreneurship can be difficult, and that's why we're here to help. as a community of student professionals,…

Education

Greater Flint Arts Council

To be a catalyst of and advocate for increased artistic and cultural enrichment of an ethnically diverse community

—

International Center of Greater Flint

To celebrate and promote our international diversity because it makes us a stronger community

Public Benefit

Flint Institute of Arts

The flint institute of arts' (fia) mission is to advance the understanding and appreciation of art for all through collections, exhibitions and educational programs. the fia is the second largest art museum in the state of michigan and one…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Flint Kids Learn and the most unlike its peers is Project Syncere. 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 24 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/59

the rest of the field

14%

232/1,668

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.

05the grantee network

46 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

45/46

Grantees still filing

37/46

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$7,373,665Human Services$3,246,000Education$1,332,004Health$908,200Food & Nutrition$858,000Philanthropy$676,600Civil Rights$649,000

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.

Community Foundation of Greater FlintMI86.9× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Flint · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Ruth Mott Foundation · Stella & Frederick Loeb Charitable Trust · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Hagerman Foundation · Burroughs Memorial Trust · Merkley Charitable Trust · United Way of Genesee County · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · The Serra Foundation · Children's Hospital of Michigan

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 organisation FOUNDATION FOR FLINT 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Michigan Breastfeeding Network.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~4 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 4.1× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 264308289 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Michigan Breastfeeding Network, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 42% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Foundation for Flint?

Find your warmest path to Foundation for Flint through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

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.

FOUNDATION FOR FLINT

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

46 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Foundation for Flint?

More from the funding graph

FOUNDATION FOR FLINT

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

46 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Foundation for Flint?

More from the funding graph