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Hispanic Center of Western Michigan Inc

Empowering the hispanic community toward self-sufficiency through job coaching, training, preschool and youth programs, social service navigation, and interpretation and translation services.

$259k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
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 FY20222024.

Health$65kHuman Services$50kEducation$50kCommunity Improvement$32kPublic Safety & Disaster$26kCrime & Legal$10kFood & Nutrition$10k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 9 grants below total $152,800 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $259,409 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $106,609 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

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $95k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KENT SCHOOL SERVICES NETWORK$50,000
ART OF MIND$25,000
HEARTSIDE GLEANING$20,000
70 X 7 RECOVERY$10,000
COMMUNITY FOOD CLUB$10,000
NORTH KENT CONNECT$10,000
MIGRANT LEGAL AID$10,000
GRAND RAPIDS LGBTQ HEALTHCARE CONS$10,000
GRAND RAPIDS URBAN LEAGUE$7,800
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 (FY22–24, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NORTH KENT CONNECT: $10k → 11%Grand Rapids Urban League: $17k → 11%GRAND RAPIDS URBAN LEAGUE: $15k → 11%GRAND RAPIDS URBAN LEAGUE: $8k → 11%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.

40%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$98k · 3 repeat orgs$145k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +426% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
8

Total granted

$98k
$145k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+426%
0%

Still filing today

67%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $145k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationPhilanthropyCivil RightsHealthFood & NutritionOther

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

  • GR
    GRAND RAPIDS URBAN LEAGUE
    3× · 2022–2024 · $40k · revenue +267%
  • AG
    A Glimpse of Africa
    2× · 2022–2023 · $32k · revenue +426%
  • AF
    Ashland-Grant Fire District
    2× · 2022–2023 · $26k

Funded once

  • KS
    KENT SCHOOL SERVICES NETWORKgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +37%
  • AO
    ART OF MIND
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • E
    EQUITABLE
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%

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
Greater Lansing Food Bank

Partner to alleviate hunger one meal at a time, to create a future where everyone has access to nourishing food.

Food & Nutrition
2
African Resource Center of West Michigan

The African Resource Center informs connects and equips African immigrants in West Michigan with people and resources to foster a flourishing community in which recent African immigrants can prosper emotionally economically and socially.

Human Services
3
Detroit Food Policy Council

The organization was founded by a group of concerned citizens, working in cooperation with the detroit city council, to shape food policy and to work for a more localized, more just, and environmentally friendly food system. the…

Food & Nutrition
4
Just Food Initiative of the Fox Valley
Food & Nutrition
5
Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network

DBCFSN works to build self-reliance and food security in Detroits black community by influencing public policy promoting urban agriculture, promoting healthy eating and encouraging youth to pursue careers in food related fields.

Food & Nutrition
6
NourishMKE Inc

We're a network of community food centers that specializes in food, love, and community. Hunger is a real problem, and access to food should be a fundamental right. No one should be made to feel they're not deserving of nourishment when…

Food & Nutrition
7
Equitable Giving Circle

Through radical, no-strings-attached giving, EGC disrupts systemic inequality by funding community-led projects, including sustainable food security programs, housing support, and wellness initiatives

Philanthropy
8
Keep Growing Detroit

Keep growing detroit exists to promote a food sovereign city where the majority of fruits and vegetables detroiters consume are grown by residents within the city's limits.

Community Improvement
9
Michigan Advocacy Program

To advance the safety, independence, and economic stability of those most affected by poverty, racism, and other structurally oppressive systems by increasing access to justice and working for systemic solutions.

Crime & Legal
10
Lakeshore Legal Aid

Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.

Crime & Legal
11
Saginaw Community Food Club & Kitchen

To address and improve food equity by providing access to healthy foods and nutritional resources to individuals and communities.

Food & Nutrition
12
Food Bank of Eastern Michigan

The Food Bank of Eastern Michigan's mission is to be the Food Source for people in need. Partnering with organizations to feed the hungry, we advocate and build a community solution to a community problem. By leveraging an abundance of…

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Food Clubs and the most unlike its peers is Grand Rapids Lgbtq Healthcare Consortium. 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Ashland-Grant Fire District — $26,000 · OtherAshland-Grant Fire DistrictART OF MIND — $25,000 · OtherART OF MINDMIGRANT LEGAL AID INC — $10,000 · OtherMIGRANT LEGAL AID INCKENT SCHOOL SERVICES NETWORK — $50,000 · EducationKENT SCHOOL SERVICES NE…GRAND RAPIDS URBAN LEAGUE — $40,000 · Human ServicesGRAND RAPIDS URBAN LEAG…ROCKFORD COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER — $10,000 · Human ServicesROCKFORD COMMUNITY SERV…A Glimpse of Africa — $32,200 · Community ImprovementA Glimpse of Af…EQUITABLE — $20,000 · PhilanthropyEQUITABLEGrand Rapids Lgbtq Healthcare Consortium — $10,000 · Civil Rights70 X 7 LIFE RECOVERY — $10,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY FOOD CLUBS — $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$61,000Education$50,000Human Services$50,000Community Improvement$32,200Philanthropy$20,000Civil Rights$10,000Health$10,000Food & Nutrition$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKENT SCHOOL SERVICES NETWORK — $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS URBAN LEAGUE — $40,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetA Glimpse of Africa — $32,200 over 2y, 12% of budgetEQUITABLE — $20,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetGrand Rapids Lgbtq Healthcare Consortium — $10,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budget70 X 7 LIFE RECOVERY — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD CLUBS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMIGRANT LEGAL AID INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetROCKFORD COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Grand Rapids Community FoundationMI21.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · Corewell Health Group Return · Trinity Health - Michigan · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · The Mercantile Bank Foundation · Frey Foundation · Steelcase Foundation · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Feeding America West Michigan · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Hispanic Center of Western Michigan Inc 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 11 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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