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Livingston County United Way

LIVINGSTON COUNTY UNITED WAY brings people together to build stronger communities and improve lives.

$663k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$92k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$2.5MFood & Nutrition$916kHousing & Shelter$737kCommunity Improvement$691kEmployment$502kHealth$457kYouth Development$378kCrime & Legal$216kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 19 grants below total $604,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $663,248 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $59,248 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 $10k3 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $282k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $299k
$22,080
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%OAKLAND LIVINGSTON HUMAN SERVICES: $57k → 8%OAKLAND LIVINGSTON HUMAN SERVICES: $54k → 8%OAKLAND LIVINGSTON HUMAN SERVICES: $54k → 8%OAKLAND LIVINGSTON HUMAN SERVICES: $42k → 8%OAKLAND LIVINGSTON HUMAN SERVICES: $34k → 8%LIVINGSTON FAMILY CENTER: $27k → 5%LIVINGSTON FAMILY CENTER: $24k → 5%LIVINGSTON FAMILY CENTER: $24k → 5%LIVINGSTON FAMILY CENTER: $22k → 5%LIVINGSTON FAMILY CENTER: $19k → 5%LIVINGSTON FAMILY CENTER: $18k → 5%LIVINGSTON FAMILY CENTER: $18k → 5%LIVINGSTON CTY CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $135k → 5%LIVINGSTON CTY CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $135k → 5%LIVINGSTON CTY CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $130k → 5%LIVINGSTON CTY CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $112k → 5%LIVINGSTON CO CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $100k → 5%OLHSA: $96k → 5%LIVINGSTON CO CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $96k → 5%LIVINGSTON CTY CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $92k → 5%LIVINGSTON CO CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $89k → 5%OLHSA: $88k → 5%OLHSA: $73k → 5%CHILD CARE NETWORK: $27k → 5%CHILD CARE NETWORK: $22k → 5%LIVINGSTON FAMILY CENTER: $18k → 5%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of Livingston County United Way’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MI; by stated purpose, 75%.

Livingston County United Waylessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 24% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.8M · 28 repeat orgs$95k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +1% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
5

Total granted

$6.8M
$73k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
0%

Still filing today

54%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCrime & LegalHealthHousing & ShelterEmploymentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • LC
    LIVINGSTON COUNTY CATHOLIC CHARITIES
    9× · 2017–2025 · $890k · revenue +1%
  • L
    LACASA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $765k · revenue +165%
  • OL
    OAKLAND LIVINGSTON HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $497k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • CC
    COMMUNITY CATALYSTSgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $28k · revenue +111%
  • VA
    VARIOUS AGENCIES
    one grant, 2020 · $26k
  • HN
    HOWELL NATURE CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $9k · revenue 0%
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
Living Center Inc

Enhancing the quality of life through integrated healthcare.

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2
Crisis Center Inc

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,…

Human Services
3
Family & Children Services Inc

Family & children services strengthens the safety and well being of children, individuals and families; accomplished by providing a comprehensive array of critical human services.

Human Services
4
Lifesteps Inc

Helping individuals and families with life's changing needs by providing programs and services which will improve their quality of life.

Education
5
Active Community Health Center of Broward Inc

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.…

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6
Community Living Options

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.

Health
7
Living Services Inc
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8
Greater Detroit Community Outreach Center inc

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…

Human Services
9
Community Care

To provide quality community-based services that are timely and effective in promoting the health and well being of individuals and their families.

Human Services
10
Life Resource Services of Jackson County

Our mission is to help those who are struggling with homelessness, by providing resources to help rebuild their lives.

Human Services
11
Life Village Inc

Providing affordable and supportive housing for individuals with disabilities.

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12
Living Improvement for the Elderly Center

Assist older adults with health issues or disabilitating conditions to remain living in the community: maintain/improve their levels of functioning: and provide respite, support and education to caregivers. the mission is accomplished…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Livingston County Catholic Charities; 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.
05the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 34 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/23
Grantees still filing
11/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SALVATION ARMY: $804,418 · OtherSALVATION ARMYLACASA: $764,644 · OtherLACASASPECIAL INITIATIVES 501(C)(3)S: $457,245 · OtherSPECIAL INITIATIVES 501(C)(3)SMENTOR LIVINGSTON: $242,488 · OtherMENTOR LIVINGSTONLIVINGSTON PROMISE: $210,500 · OtherLIVINGSTON PROMISEPREGNANCY HELPLINE: $187,133 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $170,800 · OtherLIVINGSTON COUNTY 4C COUNCIL: $130,000 · Other+13 more: $806,051 · Other+13 moreLIVINGSTON COUNTY CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $889,601 · Human ServicesLIVINGSTON COUNTY CATHOLIC…OAKLAND LIVINGSTON HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY: $497,378 · Human ServicesOAKLAND LIVINGSTON HUMAN S…THE LIVINGSTON FAMILY CENTER INC: $170,621 · Human ServicesTHE LIVINGSTON FAMILY CENT…+1 more: $49,165 · Human ServicesWORK SKILLS CORPORATION: $501,952 · EmploymentGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $450,313 · Food & NutritionMichigan Advocacy Program: $216,300 · Crime & LegalKey Development Center Inc: $89,466 · Crime & LegalVINA COMMUNITY DENTAL CENTER INC: $122,310 · HealthRecovery Advocates in Livingston Inc: $17,262 · HealthCOMMUNITY OUTREACH SERVICES CORPORATION: $94,968 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY CATALYSTS: $27,600 · Housing & ShelterGIRL SCOUTS HEART OF MICHIGAN: $5,500 · Youth Development
Other$3,773,279Human Services$1,606,765Employment$501,952Food & Nutrition$450,313Crime & Legal$305,766Health$139,572Housing & Shelter$122,568Youth Development$5,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLIVINGSTON COUNTY CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $889,601 over 9y, 5.2% of budgetLACASA: $764,644 over 9y, 5.7% of budgetWORK SKILLS CORPORATION: $501,952 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetOAKLAND LIVINGSTON HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY: $497,378 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $450,313 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMENTOR LIVINGSTON: $242,488 over 5y, 32% of budgetMichigan Advocacy Program: $216,300 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetLIVINGSTON PROMISE: $210,500 over 6y, 93% of budgetPREGNANCY HELPLINE: $187,133 over 9y, 11% of budgetTHE LIVINGSTON FAMILY CENTER INC: $170,621 over 9y, 2.9% of budgetLIVINGSTON COUNTY 4C COUNCIL: $130,000 over 6y, 48% of budgetVINA COMMUNITY DENTAL CENTER INC: $122,310 over 9y, 2.9% of budgetTHE ARC LIVINGSTON: $121,458 over 3y, 17% of budgetLIVINGSTON COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $121,100 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetST GEORGE SPECIAL MINISTRIES: $99,700 over 3y, 24% of budgetCOMMUNITY OUTREACH SERVICES CORPORATION: $94,968 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetKey Development Center Inc: $89,466 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetSEVERE WEATHER NETWORK LIVINGSTON COUNTY: $60,550 over 3y, 15% of budgetChild Care Network: $49,165 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY CATALYSTS: $27,600 over 1y, 11% of budgetRecovery Advocates in Livingston Inc: $17,262 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetHOWELL NATURE CENTER: $8,800 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS HEART OF MICHIGAN: $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Ann Arbor SparkTed and Jane Von Voig…Trinity Health - Mich…Harry a and Margaret …DTE Energy FoundationLivingston Sunrise Ro…Edward and June Kello…Positive Step Foundat…Comerica Charitable F…United Way for Southe…The Pfizer Foundation…
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI20.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Livingston County United Way funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Livingston County United Way. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 34 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.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $766k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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