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Foundation for Flint

To support and benefit the community foundation of greater flint.

$497k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$3.6MHuman Services$2.6MHealth$2.3MRecreation & Sports$1.5MCommunity Improvement$1.4MFood & Nutrition$858kPhilanthropy$677kYouth Development$622kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k15 grants · $397k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$30,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREATER FLINT HEALTH COALITION$50,000
EL BALLET FOLKLORICO ESTUDIANTIL$50,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER FLINT$40,000
SYLVESTER BROOME EMPOWERMENT VILLAGE$40,000
FLINT FREEDOM SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE$40,000
ASBURY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$35,000
FAIR FOOD NETWORK$35,000
PROJECT SYNCERE$35,000
CRIM FITNESS FOUNDATION INC$30,000
NORTH FLINT NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION COUNCIL$30,000
HURLEY FOUNDATION$23,000
EDIBLE FLINT$20,000
LATINX TECHNOLOGY & COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER FLINT$15,000
EVERGREEN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE (ECDI)$15,000
SISTERS SUPPORTING SISTERS WORLDWIDE$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $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 its 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 Regional 4C: $250k → 14%Child Care Network: $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%SAINT MARK COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER: $11k → 16%FAMILIES AND CHILDREN TOGETHER INC: $75k → 16%Ennis Center for Children Inc: $45k → 16%North Flint Reinvestment Corporation: $630k → 16%Ennis Center for Children Inc: $45k → 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
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 34 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
24

Total granted

$13M
$2.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+13%

Still filing today

74%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
    6× · 2018–2025 · $905k · revenue +122%

Funded once

  • NF
    NORTH FLINT REINVESTMENTgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $630k · revenue +27% · 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 ×91 · 26% of their budget
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.

04Its field

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.

1
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
2
Child Welfare Society of Flint
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3
Family & Children Services Inc

Family & children services strengthens the safety and well being of children, individuals and families; accomplished by providing a comprehensive array of critical human services.

Human Services
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
Greater Detroit Community Outreach Center inc

Greater Detroit Community Outreach Center is a community based nonprofit organization designed to help prevent teen parenthood among school age youth. The center has a staff of outreach representatives who go into the homes with children…

Human Services
6
Harvest Theatre Company

Harvest Theatre Co is a professional theatre and training program for Flint youth ages 13-19 years old. We use the theatrical arts to instill confidence, self worth, and discipline in the most vulnerable population of our city. In 2022 we…

Arts & Culture
7
Revive Community Health Center

Revive vision is to aid in decreasing the maternal/infant mortality rate and low birth weight in the african american population in flint/genesee county and provide community resources/outreach that revives the overal health of flint and…

Public Benefit
8
Do It With Attitude

Do it with Attitude main focus is to promote education and self-worth among youth through encouraging positive behavior. By refocusing perception while concentrating on good attitude, D.I.W.A's goal is to produce productive citizens that…

Youth Development
9
Fostering Solutions

The purpose of the organization is to provide child welfare and supporting services to children, families, and individuals working and living in michigan.

Human Services
10
Environmental Transformation Movement of Flint

To support our flint community in making bold leaps of progress toward being a healthy, sustainable and fair environment. mission of etm flint is for flint to grow diverse environmental justice leaders and just relationships to secure a…

Environment
11
Family First Center of Lake County

Our Mission is to Nurture, educate, and provide opportunities within the community by placing emphasis on rebuilding the family, repairing division, and developing strategies to empower change to create a strong family support system.

Community Improvement
12
Family Network

Family network desires to serve the greater wyoming, mi area by providing food, resources and services to people in need.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ennis Center for Children Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

47 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 47 of the 60 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/47
Grantees still filing
30/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CRIM FITNESS FOUNDATION INC: $1,381,700 · 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 · OtherHURLEY FOUNDATION: $672,000 · OtherHURLEY FOUNDATIONBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER FLINT: $298,211 · Other+28 more: $2,516,000 · Other+28 moreChild Care Network: $1,475,000 · Human ServicesChild Care NetworkNORTH FLINT REINVESTMENT: $630,000 · Human ServicesNORTH FLINT REINVESTMEN…MICHIGAN BREASTFEEDING NETWORK: $576,500 · Human ServicesMICHIGAN BREASTFEEDING …InvolvedDad: $169,500 · Human ServicesENNIS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC: $135,000 · Human Services+6 more: $270,500 · Human Services+6 moreFOUNDATION FOR MOTT COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $1,046,000 · EducationFOUNDATIO…PROJECT SYNCERE: $179,000 · EducationPROJECT S…FLINT KIDS LEARN: $112,004 · EducationFLINT KID…+1 more: $30,000 · EducationGREATER FLINT HEALTH COALITION INC: $905,000 · HealthEVERGREEN COMMUNITY DEVELOPEMENT IN: $68,200 · HealthFAIR FOOD NETWORK INC: $845,000 · Food & NutritionFLINT FRESH MOBILE MARKET: $48,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $20,000 · Food & NutritionUNITED WAY OF GENESEE COUNTY: $676,600 · PhilanthropySYLVESTER BROOME EMPOWERMENT VILLAGE: $490,000 · Community ImprovementASBURY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $185,000 · Community Improvement
Other$7,678,865Human Services$3,256,500Education$1,367,004Health$973,200Food & Nutrition$913,000Philanthropy$676,600Community Improvement$675,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChild Care Network: $1,475,000 over 7y, 12% of budgetTHE CRIM FITNESS FOUNDATION INC: $1,381,700 over 9y, 4.4% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR MOTT COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $1,046,000 over 5y, 45% of budgetGREATER FLINT HEALTH COALITION INC: $905,000 over 6y, 6.8% of budgetFAIR FOOD NETWORK INC: $845,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GENESEE COUNTY: $676,600 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetHURLEY FOUNDATION: $672,000 over 4y, 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: $490,000 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER FLINT: $298,211 over 5y, 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 budgetEl Ballet Folklorico Estudiantil: $200,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetASBURY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $185,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetPROJECT SYNCERE: $179,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetInvolvedDad: $169,500 over 3y, 33% of budgetFlint Freedom Schools Collaborative: $165,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetLIVINGSTON COUNTY 4C COUNCIL: $161,000 over 5y, 31% of budgetGenesee Area Focus Fund: $150,000 over 2y, 1.0% 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 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 budgetEVERGREEN COMMUNITY DEVELOPEMENT IN: $68,200 over 2y, 10% of budgetHISPANIC TECHNOLOGY & COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER FLINT: $65,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetMOTHERLY INTERCESSION: $60,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCommunities First Inc: $51,000 over 1y, 1.2% 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 budgetGOTTAGETIT: $26,700 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetSAINT MARK COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER: $25,500 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetHAND OF HOPE-FLM: $20,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetEDIBLE FLINT: $20,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SHIAWASSEE AND GENESEE COUNTIES: $19,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMichigan Crossroads Council Inc Boy Scouts of America: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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 tightly interlocked group: 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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Foundation for Flint funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Foundation for Flint. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 60 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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