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McLaren Bay Region

Mclaren health care, through its subsidiaries, will be michigan's best value in healthcare as defined by quality outcomes and cost.

$68k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
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.

Community Improvement$192kHealth$93kRecreation & Sports$34kArts & Culture$33kPhilanthropy$11kCivil Rights$5k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $25,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $67,761 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $42,761 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.
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$422M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BAY CITY FIREWORKS FESTIVAL$15,000
BAY AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%GREAT LAKES BAY FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 14%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$307k · 8 repeat orgs$85k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
12

Total granted

$307k
$85k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
0%

Still filing today

100%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
Community ImprovementHealthRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyCrime & LegalHuman ServicesOther
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

  • BA
    BAY AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
    7× · 2017–2025 · $56k · revenue +51%
  • BF
    BAY FUTURE INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $51k · revenue +577%
  • BC
    BAY CITY FIREWORKS FESTIVAL
    5× · 2021–2025 · $48k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF BAY COUNTY
    one grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue -14%
  • GM
    GREATER MIDLAND COMMUNITY CTRS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +39%
  • GL
    GREAT LAKES BAY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · 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
South Bay Athletic Club
Recreation & Sports
2
BaySave
Environment
3
Greater Green Bay Ymca Inc

The greater green bay ymca is a non-profit organization that puts christian principles into practice to strengthen the foundation of our community by building healthy spirit, mind and body for all.

Human Services
4
Great Lakes Bay Foundation

The mission of the great lakes bay foundation is to encourage, support and celebrate regional collaboration and initiatives that will improve the economic vitality and quality of life in the great lakes bay region.

Human Services
5
Grand Bay Athletic Association

Encourage outdoor activities, physical activities for children, community service, and overall health of community individuals.

Recreation & Sports
6
Young Men's Christian Association of Brainerd

The mission of the brainerd family ymca is to enhance the lives in the brainerd lakes area by connecting individuals and families with opportunities based on christian values that build a healthy spirit, mind, & body.

Human Services
7
Saginaw County Chamber of Commerce

To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.

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8
Bay Area Chamber of Commerce

To faciliatate and collaborate on programs that support a thriving community and economic growth in bay county and the great lakes bay region.

—
9
Bay County Chamber Foundation Inc

The foundation is the lead organization for bay county's aims of advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding of economics, matters of public concern, finance, education and training, housing, human relations, problems of…

Public Benefit
10
East Bay Power Plant
Health
11
Greater Baytown Chamber of Commerce

The baytown chamber of commerce is a business organization created to provide the leadership to enhance economic growth and a better quality of life for the baytown area.

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12
Greater Green Bay Chamber of Commerce Inc

To strengthen member businesses, enhance economic and workforce development, and improve the quality of life in our community and region.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Bay County; the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. 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

19 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. 19 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
10/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BAY AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $56,217 · OtherBAY AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCEBAY CITY FIREWORKS FESTIVAL: $47,500 · OtherBAY CITY FIREWORKS FESTIVALWEST BRANCH AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $18,940 · OtherWEST BRANCH AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCEUNITED WAY OF BAY COUNTY: $10,500 · OtherUNITED WAY OF BAY COUNTYTOLFREE FOUNDATION: $8,000 · Other+2 more: $10,000 · Other+2 moreBAY FUTURE INC: $51,250 · Community ImprovementBAY FUTURE INCMIDLAND BUSINESS ALLIANCE FNDN: $21,990 · Community ImprovementMIDLAND BUSINESS ALLIANC…MIDLAND BUSINESS ALLIANCE: $7,000 · Community ImprovementMIDLAND BUSINESS ALLIANC…GREAT LAKES BAY REGIONAL ALLIANCE: $6,000 · Community ImprovementGREAT LAKES BAY REGIONAL…MICHIGAN HEALTH IMPROVEMENT ALLIANCE: $67,000 · HealthMICHIGAN HEALTH IMPROVE…MCLAREN CARO REGION: $7,500 · HealthMCLAREN CARO REGIONAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,500 · HealthAmerican Heart Associat…SAGINAW SPIRIT FOUNDATION: $23,976 · Recreation & SportsSAGINAW S…GREATER MIDLAND COMMUNITY CTRS INC: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsGREATER M…BAY SAIL INC: $20,000 · Crime & LegalGREAT LAKES BAY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesGREAT LAKES BAY PRIDE: $5,450 · Civil RightsCARO COMMUNITY HOSPITAL ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$151,157Community Improvement$86,240Health$80,000Recreation & Sports$33,976Crime & Legal$20,000Human Services$10,000Civil Rights$5,450Philanthropy$5,000

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 budgetMICHIGAN HEALTH IMPROVEMENT ALLIANCE: $67,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetBAY AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $56,217 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetBAY FUTURE INC: $51,250 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetBAY CITY FIREWORKS FESTIVAL: $47,500 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetSAGINAW SPIRIT FOUNDATION: $23,976 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetMIDLAND BUSINESS ALLIANCE FNDN: $21,990 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBAY SAIL INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetWEST BRANCH AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $18,940 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BAY COUNTY: $10,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGREATER MIDLAND COMMUNITY CTRS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREAT LAKES BAY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMCLAREN CARO REGION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMIDLAND BUSINESS ALLIANCE: $7,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGREAT LAKES BAY REGIONAL ALLIANCE: $6,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT LAKES BAY PRIDE: $5,450 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetHURON MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetCARO COMMUNITY HOSPITAL ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 12% 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.

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.

Amazonsmile Foundation
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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 McLaren Bay Region funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McLaren Bay Region. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%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 · 0–10%
    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 20 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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