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Jobs for Michigan Council
The organization's mission is to provide citizens of michigan with an understanding of how current policy initiatives will affect their well-being; promote the common good, economic growth and general welfare of the citizens of michigan; and discuss public policy initiatives which impact michigan's ability to create and sustain jobs for…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAKING MICHIGAN STRONGER | $300,000 |
| FAIR MAPS | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL | $20,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
Voter education around policy
To oppose a Michigan ballot measure
Michigan Rising Action is focused on holding special interest networks accountable and advancing conservative principles. We're fighting for limited government, lowering taxes, fighting government over-regulation that stifles freedom, free…
Research and public education
Educate legislators and the general public on issues facing michigan, and to advocate citizen participation and obtain grassroots support for public policies relating to federal, state, or local legislation, and ballot questions.
To ensure free and fair elections by helping create more just and representative electoral districts across the State of Michigan
Michigan conservative action policies (mcap) is an organization dedicated to educating michiganders on important policy issues. the organization conducts policy research and public polling in michigan to better understand current opinions…
Social welfare and issue advocacy
To provide the voters of michigan with an understanding of how current policy initiatives will affect michigan's economic well-being.
To operate exclusively for the promotion of civic action and social welfare by promoting the common good and general welfare of the residents of and visitors to the State of Michigan; to support public policies on the Federal State and…
Provide informational programs and non-partisan research and analysis concerning education reform. Conduct and examine others' research into education reform and analyze those plans' application in Michigan.
To operate exclusively for the promotion of civic action and social welfare by promoting the common good and general welfare of the residents of, and visitors to the State of Michigan; to support public policies on the federal, state, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of Jackson County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fair Maps. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 10 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 MICHIGAN CITIZENS FOR FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY ↗
- Who funds MAKING MICHIGAN STRONGER ↗
- Who funds FAIR Maps ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF JACKSON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Citizens for Traditional Values ↗
- Who funds Citizens for Traditional Values Foundation ↗
- Who funds ROYAL MINISTRIES INC ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Jobs for Michigan Council 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.
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