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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 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, FY2022 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $152,800, the rows itemized in this filing. The $259,409 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $106,609 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
NORTH KENT CONNECT$10,000
70 X 7 RECOVERY$10,000
MIGRANT LEGAL AID$10,000
COMMUNITY FOOD CLUB$10,000
GRAND RAPIDS LGBTQ HEALTHCARE CONS$10,000
GRAND RAPIDS URBAN LEAGUE$7,800
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.

show:

Its 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 its 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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +426% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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%
+20%

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 ServicesEducationPhilanthropyHealthCivil RightsFood & NutritionOther
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

  • 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%
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
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
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
4
Allen Neighborhood Center

Allen Neighborhood Center is a place-based organization that serves as a hub for neighborhood revitalization and for activities that promote the health and well-being of Lansing's Eastside Community and other stakeholders.

Human Services
5
Nourishmke Inc

NourishMKE is the largest network of community food centers in Milwaukee. We provide encouraging spaces to select free quality foods, and explore nutrition and wellbeing. The foods are thoughtfully sourced to offer options and reduce…

Food & Nutrition
6
Just Food Initiative of the Fox Valley
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
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
9
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
10
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
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Food Clubs; 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · PhilanthropyEQUITABLE70 X 7 LIFE RECOVERY: $10,000 · HealthGrand Rapids Lgbtq Healthcare Consortium: $10,000 · Civil RightsCOMMUNITY FOOD CLUBS: $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$61,000Education$50,000Human Services$50,000Community Improvement$32,200Philanthropy$20,000Health$10,000Civil Rights$10,000Food & Nutrition$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budget70 X 7 LIFE RECOVERY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGrand Rapids Lgbtq Healthcare Consortium: $10,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetROCKFORD COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD CLUBS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMIGRANT LEGAL AID INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% 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.

Grand Rapids Communit…Heart of West Michiga…Corewell Health Group…Trinity Health - Mich…Douglas & Maria Devos…The Mercantile Bank F…Frey FoundationSteelcase FoundationThe Community Foundat…Feeding America West …Michigan Health Endow…Fidelity Investments …
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

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 Hispanic Center of Western Michigan Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hispanic Center of Western Michigan Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's 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, 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 11 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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