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Lansing Economic Area Partnership

We build a stronger community for all, working everyday to grow, retain and attract business to the region.

$27M
Granted FY2024still arriving
75
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$17M
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Membership Benefit$26MEnvironment$20MPhilanthropy$13MHealth$9.9MCommunity Improvement$9.0MFood & Nutrition$3.1MHuman Services$2.3MArts & Culture$1.6MOther$0
02FY2024 · 75 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 75 grants below total $24,403,104, the rows itemized in this filing. The $27,357,995 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,954,891 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 $10k19 grants · $128k
  • $10k–50k34 grants · $722k
  • $50k–250k20 grants · $2.1M
  • $250k+2 grants · $21M
$18,750
Median grant
8
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DELTA CHARTER TOWNSHIP$17,059,815
LANSING BOARD WATER AND LIGHT$4,435,796
CUSHMAN & WAKEFIELD US INC$190,000
FOSTER SWIFT COLLINS & SMITH PC$188,620
PUBLIC SECTOR CONSULTANTS INC$187,929
THE FLEDGE$130,000
BEST PRACTICES CONSULTING SERVICE LLC$111,613
MI-SBDC$109,995
TRITERRA$107,745
DYMAXION DEVELOPMENT LLC$100,000
HOLLAND ENGINEERING$98,390
CITY OF GRAND LEDGE1$92,000
TRANSFORMATION GEMS$90,000
MOONSAIL NORTH LLC$88,000
ALLEN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER$82,610
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 (FY18–24, $732k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AGAINST ALL ODDS INC: $10k → 16%EATON CLOTHING & FURNITURE CENTER: $10k → 9%AGAINST ALL ODDS INC: $5k → 16%EATON AREA SENIOR CENTER INC: $10k → 9%100 ACRE WOOD DAYCARE: $10k → 16%REFUGEE DEVELOPEMENT CENTER: $20k → 9%REFUGEE DEVELOPEMENT CENTER: $18k → 9%REFUGEE DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $13k → 9%REFUGEE DEVELOPEMENT CENTER: $13k → 9%NORTHWEST LANSING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES INI: $20k → 16%REFUGEE DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $10k → 9%NORTHWEST LANSING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES INI: $10k → 16%REFUGEE DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $10k → 9%ROCKING CHAIR DESERTERS INC: $10k → 9%THE CARDBOARD PROPHETS: $5k → 9%THE NEW CITIZENS PRESS COMMUNITY ACTION N: $10k → 9%REFUGEE DEVELOPEMENT CENTER: $8k → 9%REFUGEE DEVELOPEMENT CENTER: $8k → 9%CHRISTO REY COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 9%RELIEF AFTER VIOLENT ENCOUNTER INC: $10k → 9%SOUTH LANSING COMMUNITY DEV ASSOC: $20k → 16%LARRY MITCHELL TRICE SR COMM OUTREACH S: $10k → 16%ONE LOVE GLOBAL INC: $10k → 16%SOUTH LANSING COMMUNITY DEV ASSOC: $10k → 16%HANDICAPPER ADVOCACY ALLIANCE INC: $5k → 16%K'S PRECIOUS CARE LEARNING CENTER INC: $80k → 16%SMALL TALK CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $20k → 16%KS PRECIOUS CARE LEARNING CENTER INC: $6k → 16%SMALL TALK CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $5k → 16%WILLOW TREE FAMILY CENTER INC: $20k → 16%FORSTER WOODS ADULT DAY SERVICES: $20k → 16%FORSTER WOODS ADULT DAY SERVICES: $10k → 16%WILLOW TREE FAMILY CENTER INC: $5k → 16%ALLEN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $90k → 16%ALLEN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $83k → 16%ALLEN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $35k → 16%ALLEN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $30k → 16%OPPORTUNITY RESOURCE FUND: $20k → 16%THE DAVIES PROJECT FOR MID-MICHIGAN: $20k → 16%ALLEN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $10k → 16%THE DAVIES PROJECT FOR MID-MICHIGAN: $10k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
CO
DE
GA
TX
FL
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$73M · 236 repeat orgs$17M to everyone else

236 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2024, 212 since wound down; 49 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

236
787

Total granted

$73M
$16M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+27%

Still filing today

15%
8%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • NC
    National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance Inc
    2× · 2022–2023 · $330k · revenue +30%
  • AN
    Allen Neighborhood Center
    5× · 2020–2024 · $248k · revenue +188%
  • TG
    Transformation Gems
    5× · 2020–2024 · $245k · revenue +11% · 88% of their budget

Funded once

  • LB
    LANSING BOARD WATER AND LIGHT
    one grant, 2022 · $2.7M
  • MF
    M-100 FARM LLC
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M
  • MS
    MOMENT STRATEGIES
    one grant, 2023 · $329k
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 Destination Development Foundation
Community Improvement
2
Shared Pregnancy Womens Center

To offer education, assistance and resources to women and families in the greater lansing area.

Civil Rights
3
Lansing Promise

Lansing Promise helps students in gaining access to higher education through readiness and scholarships.

Education
4
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

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5
Traverse City Center of Entrepreneurship

To cultivate a thriving and connected startup ecosystem in nw lower michigan.

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6
Lansing Community Library

Public library

Education
7
Michigan Center for Employee Owners

Education and promotion of employee ownership. the organization provides educational resources, training, and outreach toward the benefits of employee-owned enterprises.

Education
8
Great Lakes Center for the Arts

The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.

Arts & Culture
9
Michigan Club Squash
Recreation & Sports
10
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;…

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11
Mid Michigan Community Action Agency Inc

Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.

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12
Acecmichigan

Association of consulting engineers

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The South Side Community Coalition; the most unlike its peers is Cardboard Prophets. 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

102 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. 102 of the 1,072 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.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
34
Early backer (in before they grew)
96/102
Grantees still filing
70/102
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DELTA CHARTER TOWNSHIP: $30,369,770 · OtherDELTA CHARTER TOWNSHIPLANSING BOARD WATER AND LIGHT: $2,711,126 · OtherLANSING BOARD WATER AND LIGHT+180 more: $13,315,616 · Other+180 morePOST-RETIREMENT BENEFIT PLAN AND TRUST FOR ELIGIBLE EMPLOYEES OF LANSING BOARD: $30,198,874 · Membership BenefitPOST-RETIREMENT BENEFIT PLAN AND TRUST FOR …Transformation Gems: $245,000 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR COMMUNITY BASED ENTERPRISE: $220,000 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN LANSING PARTNERSHIP INC: $90,000 · Community ImprovementAllen Neighborhood Center: $247,610 · Human ServicesREFUGEE DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $98,500 · Human ServicesKS PRECIOUS CARE LEARNING CTR: $85,743 · Human ServicesSOUTH LANSING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION: $30,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST LANSING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES INITIATIVE: $30,000 · Human ServicesFORSTER WOODS ADULT DAY SERVICES: $30,000 · Human ServicesTHE DAVIES PROJECT FOR MID MICHIGAN CHILDREN: $30,000 · Human ServicesNational Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance Inc: $330,000 · EducationTHE SOUTH SIDE COMMUNITY COALITION: $80,000 · EducationHAPPENDANCE INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureALL OF THE ABOVE HIP HOP ACADEMY: $30,000 · Arts & CultureLANSING ART GALLERY & EDUCATION CENTER: $30,000 · Arts & CultureHAVEN HOUSE: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY CAPITAL REGION INC: $30,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$46,396,512Membership Benefit$30,198,874Community Improvement$555,000Human Services$551,853Education$410,000Arts & Culture$95,000Housing & Shelter$60,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPOST-RETIREMENT BENEFIT PLAN AND TRUST FOR ELIGIBLE EMPLOYEES OF LANSING BOARD: $30,198,874 over 2y, 80% of budgetNational Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance Inc: $330,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAllen Neighborhood Center: $247,610 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetTransformation Gems: $245,000 over 5y, 88% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY BASED ENTERPRISE: $220,000 over 2y, 64% of budgetEASTMINSTER COMMUNITY CONCERNS INC: $110,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetREFUGEE DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $98,500 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetKS PRECIOUS CARE LEARNING CTR: $85,743 over 2y, 13% of budgetTHE SOUTH SIDE COMMUNITY COALITION: $80,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetUNIVERSITY CLUB OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $40,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHAPPENDANCE INC: $35,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetNSF INTERNATIONAL: $33,299 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAVEN HOUSE: $30,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetALL OF THE ABOVE HIP HOP ACADEMY: $30,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetEASTSIDE COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER: $30,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetALANO CLUB INC: $30,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetWomen's Center of Greater Lansing: $30,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetSOUTH LANSING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY CAPITAL REGION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetWOMENS OPPORTUNITY HOUSE: $30,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetLANSING ART GALLERY & EDUCATION CENTER: $30,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetNORTHWEST LANSING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES INITIATIVE: $30,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetACTIVE LIVING FOR ALL: $30,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetCapital Area United Way Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFORSTER WOODS ADULT DAY SERVICES: $30,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetMichigan Peace Team Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetRonald McDonald House of Mid-Michigan: $30,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetTHE DAVIES PROJECT FOR MID MICHIGAN CHILDREN: $30,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetELE'S PLACE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCommunity Circle Players Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetLANSING REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $26,000 over 2y, 1.0% 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.

  • Who funds POST-RETIREMENT BENEFIT PLAN AND TRUST FOR ELIGIBLE EMPLOYEES OF LANSING BOARD ↗
  • Who funds National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance Inc ↗
  • Who funds Allen Neighborhood Center ↗
  • Who funds Transformation Gems ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR COMMUNITY BASED ENTERPRISE ↗
  • Who funds EASTMINSTER COMMUNITY CONCERNS INC ↗
  • Who funds REFUGEE DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds DOWNTOWN LANSING PARTNERSHIP INC ↗

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.

Capital Region Commun…Desk Drawer FundArts Council of Great…Joe D Pentecost Found…Lansing Rotary Founda…Re Olds FoundationJackson Charitable Fo…McLaren Greater Lansi…United Way of South C…Cinnaire CorporationGreater Lansing Desti…Dart Foundation fka S…
Capital Region Community FoundationMI75.1× affinity49 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Capital Region Community Foundation · Desk Drawer Fund · Arts Council of Greater Lansing · Joe D Pentecost Foundation · Lansing Rotary Foundation · Re Olds Foundation · Jackson Charitable Foundation Inc · McLaren Greater Lansing · United Way of South Central Michigan · Cinnaire Corporation · Greater Lansing Destination Development Foundation · Dart Foundation fka Solid Waste Management Foundation

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 Lansing Economic Area Partnership funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lansing Economic Area Partnership. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 38%
  • National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance Inc: 38% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 1072 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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