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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…

$346k
Granted FY2023
3
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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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 2023.

Public Benefit$1.4MCivil Rights$20kEducation$8kYouth Development$8k
02FY2023 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAKING MICHIGAN STRONGER$300,000
FAIR MAPS$25,000
AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL$20,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MICHIGAN FREEDOM BRIGADE: $20k → 9%MICHIGAN REPUBLICAN PARTY: $650k → 11%JACKSON CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $8k → 13%MICHIGAN CITIZENS FOR FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY: $350k → 16%AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL: $20k → 7%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF JACKSON: $8k → 13%MAKING MICHIGAN STRONGER: $300k → 16%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 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
Elevated Voices Inc

Voter education around policy

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2
Defend Your Vote

To oppose a Michigan ballot measure

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3
Michigan Rising Action

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…

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4
Michigan Campaign Finance Network

Research and public education

Public Benefit
5
Faithful Conservatives for Michigan

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.

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6
Michigan Voting Rights Foundation

To ensure free and fair elections by helping create more just and representative electoral districts across the State of Michigan

Civil Rights
7
Michigan Conservative Action Policies

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…

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8
Michigan Center of Accountability for Republicans

Social welfare and issue advocacy

Civil Rights
9
Michigan Jobs Council

To provide the voters of michigan with an understanding of how current policy initiatives will affect michigan's economic well-being.

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10
Accountability for Government Fund Inc

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…

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11
Great Lakes Education Foundation

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.

Education
12
Voters for Transparency and Term Limits

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of Jackson County Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 10 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
3/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MICHIGAN REPUBLICAN PARTY: $650,000 · OtherMICHIGAN REPUBLICAN PARTYMICHIGAN CITIZENS FOR FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY: $350,000 · OtherMICHIGAN CITIZENS FOR FISCAL RESPONSIBILITYMAKING MICHIGAN STRONGER: $300,000 · OtherMAKING MICHIGAN STRONGER+4 more: $60,000 · OtherAMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL: $20,000 · Public BenefitCitizens for Traditional Values Foundation: $7,500 · Civil RightsROYAL MINISTRIES INC: $7,500 · Education
Other$1,360,000Public Benefit$20,000Civil Rights$7,500Education$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMICHIGAN CITIZENS FOR FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY: $350,000 over 1y, 83% of budgetMAKING MICHIGAN STRONGER: $300,000 over 1y, 52% of budgetFAIR Maps: $25,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetAMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF JACKSON COUNTY INC: $7,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCitizens for Traditional Values: $7,500 over 1y, 10% of budgetCitizens for Traditional Values Foundation: $7,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetROYAL MINISTRIES INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jobs for Michigan Council funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jobs for Michigan Council. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%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
    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.
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    How do I get to Jobs for Michigan Council?

    Find your warmest path to Jobs for Michigan Council 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.

    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 10 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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