· Public charity
Lansing Promise
We provide scholarships and support for Lansing students journeys to postsecondary completion.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2026
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $336k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Michigan State University | $335,632 |
| Magic of Literacy | $50,000 |
| Lansing School District | $13,446 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2026, 4 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2026, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LCLansing Comm College9× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M
- MSMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2026 · $1.4M
OLIVET COLLEGE5× · 2017–2021 · $217k · revenue +25%
Funded once
UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGANone grant, 2025 · $60k · revenue 0%- AOALL OF THE ABOVE HIP HOP ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +146%
- DUDAVENPORT UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +6%
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.
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.
The mission of calvin university is to equip students to think deeply, to act justly, and to live wholeheartedly as christ's agents of renewal in the world.
Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.
Maximize learning and teaching by bringing together the best in people and technology.
Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.
Lackawanna college is an accredited, private, non-profit education institution whose mission is to provide a quality education to all persons who seek to improve their lives and better the communities in which they live. the college…
East-west university is an independent institution of higher learning located in downtown chicago. its mission is the pursuit of excellence by all through relevant, effective and convenient education and service to humankind with a global,…
To empower communities and help change liver for african americans and other emerging communities and groups. the urban league seeks to eliminate barriers to opportunity and assist individuals in attaining economic self sufficiency.
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 12 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lansing Promise funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lansing Promise. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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