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Foundation for Flint

To support and benefit the community foundation of greater flint.

$11M
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$3.6MHuman Services$2.6MHealth$2.3MRecreation & Sports$1.5MCommunity Improvement$1.4MFood & Nutrition$858kPhilanthropy$677kYouth Development$622kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 15 grants below total $470,211 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $11,091,910 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $10,621,699 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k10 grants · $220k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $250k
$30,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY$50,000
EL BALLET FOLKLORICO ESTUDIANTIL$50,000
DEVELOPING RESPECTFUL EDUCATED ASPIRING MINDS WITH SPORTS$50,000
FLINT INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY$50,000
FLINT FREEDOM SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE$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
03

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%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Judson Center Inc: $100k → 8%Child Care Network Regional 4C: $275k → 14%SAINT MARK COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER: $15k → 10%Child Care Network Regional 4C: $250k → 14%Child Care Network: $250k → 14%Child Care Network Regional 4C: $250k → 14%Child Care Network: $200k → 14%CHILD CARE NETWORK: $200k → 14%Michigan Breastfeeding Network: $260k → 16%Michigan Breastfeeding Network: $125k → 16%CHILD CARE NETWORK WASHTENAW REGIONAL 4C: $50k → 14%Michigan Breastfeeding Network: $100k → 16%Michigan Breastfeeding Network: $67k → 16%MICHIGAN BREASTFEEDING NETWORK: $25k → 16%HAND OF HOPE - FLM: $20k → 16%FAMILIES AND CHILDREN TOGETHER INC: $75k → 16%Ennis Center for Children Inc: $45k → 16%Ennis Center for Children Inc: $45k → 16%North Flint Reinvestment Corporation: $630k → 16%Friends of Berston: $30k → 16%Ennis Center for Children Inc: $25k → 16%ENNIS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC: $20k → 16%Without Walls Outreach: $20k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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 +42% since the first grant, against +30% 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

29
21

Total granted

$12M
$2.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+30%

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.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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
    7× · 2017–2023 · $1.5M · revenue +28%
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR MOTT COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    5× · 2017–2022 · $1.0M · revenue +347% · 45% of their budget
  • GF
    GREATER FLINT HEALTH COALITION INC
    5× · 2018–2023 · $855k · revenue +163%

Funded once

  • NF
    NORTH FLINT REINVESTMENTgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $630k · revenue +30% · 34% of their budget
  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
    one grant, 2017 · $300k
  • FA
    Flint and Genesee Group Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $257k · revenue ×59 · 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.

1
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
2
Flint Center for Educational Excellence

The flint center for educational excellence is 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
3
Child Welfare Society of Flint
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4
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
5
Michigan Family Resources

Michigan Family Resources mission is to deliver holistic family-centered services to children that promote their well-being and development.

Education
6
Community Education Commission

CEC works with diverse stakeholders across Detroit to develop critical resources and system-level solutions that address common challenges faced by Detroit families in accessing quality education.

Education
7
Center for Family Health

The mission of the Center for Family Health is opening the door to health care for all.

Health
8
Flint Jewish Federation

To further the welfare of the jewish community

Philanthropy
9
Family Outreach Center

Leading the way in promoting healthy family living by reaching out to underserved populations and those who are in our community.

—
10
Foundation for Flint

To support and benefit the community foundation of greater flint. the organization will address a wide variety of community needs in greater flint, and its immediate priority is to provide aid to those affected by the flint water crisis.

Philanthropy
11
Healthy Flint Research Coordinating Cent

We aim to engage community members, organizations, and researchers in efforts to improve the financial, environmental, emotional, and physical health of Flint residents.

Environment
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Greater Flint and the most unlike its peers is GEARUP2LEAD. 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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%8%<5yr13%15%5–10yr17%27%10–20yr13%10%20–35yr14%23%35–55yr20%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%2%<5yr13%3%5–10yr17%29%10–20yr13%15%20–35yr14%40%35–55yr20%12%55yr+

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 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/59
the rest of the field
16%
272/1,668

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.

04the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 58 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/46
Grantees still filing
30/46
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE CRIM FITNESS FOUNDATION INC — $1,351,700 · OtherTHE CRIM FITNESS FOUNDATION INCGENESEE ISD — $793,461 · OtherGENESEE ISDMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY — $606,493 · OtherMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYGENESEE COUNTY PARKS & RECREATION COMMISSION — $555,000 · OtherGENESEE COUNTY PARKS & RECREATION COMMISSIONREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — $300,000 · OtherFlint Public Library — $299,000 · OtherFlint and Genesee Group Foundation — $257,000 · OtherSYLVESTER BROOME EMPOWERMENT VILLAGE — $450,000 · OtherSYLVESTER BROOME EMPOWERMENT VILLAGEFlint Cultural Center Corporation — $250,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER FLINT — $258,211 · Other+27 more — $2,252,800 · Other+27 moreChild Care Network — $1,475,000 · Human ServicesChild Care NetworkNORTH FLINT REINVESTMENT — $630,000 · Human ServicesNORTH FLINT REINVESTMENTMICHIGAN BREASTFEEDING NETWORK — $576,500 · Human ServicesMICHIGAN BREASTFEEDING N…InvolvedDad — $169,500 · Human ServicesENNIS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC — $135,000 · Human Services+6 more — $260,000 · Human Services+6 moreFOUNDATION FOR MOTT COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $1,046,000 · EducationFOUNDATION…PROJECT SYNCERE — $144,000 · EducationPROJECT SY…FLINT KIDS LEARN — $112,004 · EducationFLINT KIDS…+1 more — $30,000 · EducationGREATER FLINT HEALTH COALITION INC — $855,000 · HealthEVERGREEN COMMUNITY DEVELOPEMENT IN — $53,200 · HealthFAIR FOOD NETWORK INC — $810,000 · Food & NutritionFLINT FRESH MOBILE MARKET — $48,000 · Food & NutritionUNITED WAY OF GENESEE COUNTY — $676,600 · PhilanthropyHURLEY FOUNDATION — $649,000 · Civil Rights
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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetChild Care Network — $1,475,000 over 7y, 12% of budgetTHE CRIM FITNESS FOUNDATION INC — $1,351,700 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR MOTT COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $1,046,000 over 5y, 45% of budgetGREATER FLINT HEALTH COALITION INC — $855,000 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetFAIR FOOD NETWORK INC — $810,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GENESEE COUNTY — $676,600 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetHURLEY FOUNDATION — $649,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetNORTH FLINT REINVESTMENT — $630,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetMICHIGAN BREASTFEEDING NETWORK — $576,500 over 5y, 42% of budgetSYLVESTER BROOME EMPOWERMENT VILLAGE — $450,000 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER FLINT — $258,211 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetFlint and Genesee Group Foundation — $257,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetFlint Cultural Center Corporation — $250,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetGreater Flint Mental Health Facilities Inc — $200,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetInvolvedDad — $169,500 over 3y, 33% of budgetLIVINGSTON COUNTY 4C COUNCIL — $161,000 over 5y, 31% of budgetGenesee Area Focus Fund — $150,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetEl Ballet Folklorico Estudiantil — $150,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetASBURY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP — $150,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetPROJECT SYNCERE — $144,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetENNIS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC — $135,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFlint Institute of Science & History — $125,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFlint Freedom Schools Collaborative — $125,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetFLINT KIDS LEARN — $112,004 over 1y, 42% of budgetJUDSON CENTER INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF FLINT AND GENESEE COUNTY — $93,500 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetCarriage Town Ministries — $79,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetFamilies and Children Together Inc — $75,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetMOTHERLY INTERCESSION — $60,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetEVERGREEN COMMUNITY DEVELOPEMENT IN — $53,200 over 1y, 10% of budgetCommunities First Inc — $51,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHISPANIC TECHNOLOGY & COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER FLINT — $50,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetFLINT FRESH MOBILE MARKET — $48,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetTHE FLINT CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $38,700 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetGEARUP2LEAD — $33,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetPHALEN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY - INDIANA — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF BERSTON — $30,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetYMCA of Greater Flint — $28,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHAND OF HOPE-FLM — $20,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SHIAWASSEE AND GENESEE COUNTIES — $19,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAINT MARK COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER — $15,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetGOTTAGETIT — $13,500 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetMichigan Crossroads Council Inc Boy Scouts of America — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 …Ruth Mott FoundationCharles Stewart Mott …Consumers Energy Foun…The Hagerman Foundati…United Way of Genesee…Stella & Frederick Lo…Nartel Family Foundat…Anna Paulina Foundati…The Serra FoundationMichigan Health Endow…Merkley Charitable Tr…
Community Foundation of Greater FlintMI81.1× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Flint · Ruth Mott Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Hagerman Foundation · United Way of Genesee County · Stella & Frederick Loeb Charitable Trust · Nartel Family Foundation · Anna Paulina Foundation · The Serra Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Merkley Charitable Trust

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 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 58 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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