· Public charity
Health Net of West Michigan
To improve the health of children and adults, particularly vulnerable populations, through education and connections to health care and support services.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 3 grants below total $144,409 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $182,941 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $38,532 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 · FY2022
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $121k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FitKids360 | $120,634 |
| Cherry Health | $16,338 |
| Family Outreach Center Inc | $7,437 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $228k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2022, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $121k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CSCherry Street Services Inc6× · 2017–2022 · $333k · revenue +19%
- FOFAMILY OUTREACH CENTER6× · 2017–2022 · $94k · revenue +14%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST MICHIGAN3× · 2017–2020 · $56k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- ICINGHAM COUNTYone grant, 2018 · $81k
- WCWAYNE CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE ACCESS PROGR AM INCone grant, 2017 · $81k · revenue -61%
- TFTHE FOUNDATION IN SUPPORT OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLINDone grant, 2017 · $70k · revenue +15% · 48% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To improve the health of children and adults, particularly vulnerable populations, through education and connections to health care and support services.
To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.
The mission of the Center for Family Health is opening the door to health care for all.
Muskegon family care is a federally qualified health center with medical and dental clinics reaching out to uninsured and underinsured patients in muskegon county.
Family Medical Center of Michigan, Inc. is dedicated to quality and excellence in providing comprehensive, cost-effective primary and preventive health care regardless of age, ethnic background, or ability to pay.
Life Circles supports vulnerable individuals and their care partners by providing compassionate, comprehensive team based care that honors their health care preferences and their desire to remain living in the community.
To ensure all michigan children and youth with emotional, behavioral, or mental health challenges and their families live in a safe, welcoming community with access to needed services and supports.
To provide quality,comprehensive primary health care services that are accessible, affordable and responsive to the communities that we serve.
Westside Family Health Center provides comprehensive, high quality, cost effective health care in an educational and supportive environment that empowers patients to take an assertive role in caring for their well-being through all stages…
To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
To provide high quality health care to individuals and community groups in Saginaw, Bay, and other nearby counties. Services are provided without regard to race, beliefs or ability to pay.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is First Steps Kent and the most unlike its peers is The Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Grand Rapids (3019). Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 19 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Cherry Street Services Inc ↗
- Who funds FitKids360 ↗
- Who funds FAMILY OUTREACH CENTER ↗
- Who funds WAYNE CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE ACCESS PROGR AM INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION IN SUPPORT OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds THE ARBOR CIRCLE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FIRST STEPS KENT ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY HOMES COALITION OF WEST MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SENIOR NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Grand Rapids (3019) ↗
- Who funds THRESHOLDS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED METHODIST COMMUNITY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds MUNSON MEDICAL CENTER ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Corewell Health Group Return · Heart of West Michigan United Way · Frey Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · The Meijer Foundation · The Wege Foundation · The Sebastian Foundation · Feeding America West Michigan · WK Kellogg Foundation · First Steps Kent · Steelcase Foundation
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 Health Net of West Michigan 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.
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.