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Great Lakes Jobs Alliance

To provide citizens of michigan and the great lakes region with an understanding of how current policy initiatives will affect their well-being; to promote the common good, economic growth and general welfare of the citizens of michigan and the great lakes region; and discuss public policy initiatives which impact michigan's ability to…

$1.4M
Granted FY2022
4
Grants FY2022
4
Organizations funded FY2022
75%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$340,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$1,000,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 4
FY2018 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
1

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 75% of the organizations Great Lakes Jobs Alliance funded were first-time grantees, receiving 98% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20224$1.4M75%
FY20183$527kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2022.

Community Improvement$1.0MPublic Benefit$769kCivil Rights$184k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Michigan Chamber of Commerce$1,000,000122%
Michigan Republican Party$340,0001n/a
Citizens for a Working America Inc$190,00012%
Independence and Freedom Network$183,70216%
Michigan Citizens for Fiscal Responsibility$178,50027%
Jobs for Michigan Council$60,00016%

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.

Michigan Energy FirstMI13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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How do I get to Great Lakes Jobs Alliance?

Find your warmest path to Great Lakes Jobs Alliance through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Great Lakes Jobs Alliance

How much does Great Lakes Jobs Alliance give?
Great Lakes Jobs Alliance reported 4 grants totaling $1,430,500 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 4 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2022.
What does Great Lakes Jobs Alliance fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2022, its largest causes are Community Improvement (51%), Public Benefit (39%), Civil Rights (9%).
Who are Great Lakes Jobs Alliance's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2022: Michigan Chamber of Commerce ($1.0M), Michigan Republican Party ($340k), Citizens for a Working America Inc ($190k).
Does Great Lakes Jobs Alliance fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Great Lakes Jobs Alliance?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Michigan Energy First.
Where is Great Lakes Jobs Alliance based?
Great Lakes Jobs Alliance is based in MI.

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 6 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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