· Public charity
Livingston County United Way
LIVINGSTON COUNTY UNITED WAY brings people together to build stronger communities and improve lives.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 19 grants below total $604,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $663,248 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $59,248 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $282k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $299k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIVINGSTON CTY CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $92,250 |
| LACASA | $84,536 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY LC CORPS COMM CT | $69,912 |
| GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $52,273 |
| LIV HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $35,600 |
| OAKLAND LIVINGSTON HUMAN SERVICES | $33,600 |
| THE ARC LIVINGSTON | $30,000 |
| LIVINGSTON EDUCATIONAL SERV AGENCY | $23,326 |
| LEGAL SERVICES OF SOUTH CENTRAL MI | $22,800 |
| COMMUNITY CATALYST | $22,080 |
| CHILD CARE NETWORK | $21,851 |
| Individual grant recipient | $21,800 |
| WORK SKILLS CORP | $21,000 |
| LIVINGSTON FAMILY CENTER | $17,816 |
| PREGNANCY HELPLINE | $15,986 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of Livingston County United Way’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MI; read by stated purpose it is 75% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +1% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- LCLIVINGSTON COUNTY CATHOLIC CHARITIES9× · 2017–2025 · $890k · revenue +1%
- LLACASA9× · 2017–2025 · $765k · revenue +165%
- OLOAKLAND LIVINGSTON HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY9× · 2017–2025 · $497k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- CCCOMMUNITY CATALYSTSone grant, 2023 · $28k · revenue -4%
- VAVARIOUS AGENCIESone grant, 2020 · $26k
- HNHOWELL NATURE CENTERone grant, 2021 · $9k · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Enhancing the quality of life through integrated healthcare.
Listening ear crisis center in mt. pleasant, michigan, empowers individuals and families across mid and northern michigan by providing quality services and safe, affordable housing. with a history of serving over 30,000 people annually,…
Helping individuals and families with life's changing needs by providing programs and services which will improve their quality of life.
To provide a range of high-quality support services to people in need of residential care, in-home assistance or support. Providing these services in a manner that respects self-direction and dignity of individuals.
Our mission is to help those who are struggling with homelessness, by providing resources to help rebuild their lives.
We are and Agency created on the fundamental value that strengthening one family at a time will transform our community as a whole. we believe that all people should have access to behavioral healt servicesa and to live a fulfilling life.…
Greater Detroit Community Outreach Center is a community based nonprofit organization designed to help prevent teen parenthood among school age youth. The center has a staff of outreach representatives who go into the homes with children…
Providing affordable and supportive housing for individuals with disabilities.
Assist parents with the care and development of their preschool children (Parenting Communities) and to establish home childcare businesses for infants and toddlers (ITCS)
To provide quality community-based services that are timely and effective in promoting the health and well being of individuals and their families.
We are called to collaborate with our community to identify needs that can be meet with compassion, dignity and love.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Livingston County Catholic Charities and the most unlike its peers is Severe Weather Network Livingston County. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
23 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. 23 of the 34 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 LIVINGSTON COUNTY CATHOLIC CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds LACASA ↗
- Who funds WORK SKILLS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND LIVINGSTON HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds MENTOR LIVINGSTON ↗
- Who funds Michigan Advocacy Program ↗
- Who funds LIVINGSTON PROMISE ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY HELPLINE ↗
- Who funds THE LIVINGSTON FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LIVINGSTON COUNTY 4C COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds VINA COMMUNITY DENTAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC LIVINGSTON ↗
- Who funds LIVINGSTON COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds ST GEORGE SPECIAL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY OUTREACH SERVICES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Key Development Center Inc ↗
- Who funds SEVERE WEATHER NETWORK LIVINGSTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Child Care Network ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CATALYSTS ↗
- Who funds Recovery Advocates in Livingston Inc ↗
- Who funds HOWELL NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS HEART OF MICHIGAN ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Ann Arbor Spark · Ted and Jane Von Voigtlander Foundation · Trinity Health - Michigan · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · Dte Energy Foundation · Livingston Sunrise Rotary Foundation · Edward and June Kellogg Foundation Dba Kellogg Family Foundation · Positive Step Foundation Inc · Comerica Charitable Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Livingston County United Way 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.