· Public charity
Mecosta - Osceola United Way Inc
Conduct an annual united way campaign to raise contributions from mecosta and osceola residents and business for grant making to community health, welfare and charitable organizations that offer programs centered around meeting critical needs and providing youth mentoring to mecosta and osceola residents.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $46,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $50,801 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,801 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MO INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL DISTRICT | $10,000 |
| OSCEOLA COUNTY COMMISSION ON AGING | $10,000 |
| MECOSTA COUNTY COMMISSION ON AGING | $10,000 |
| PROJECT STARBURST | $8,000 |
| WOMEN'S INFORMATION SERVICE (WISE) | $8,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $326k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- WIWOMENS INFORMATION SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $229k · revenue +75%
- PSPROJECT STARBURST9× · 2017–2025 · $168k · revenue +37% · 35% of their budget
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE LAKESHORE5× · 2019–2023 · $101k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- SASALVATION ARMYone grant, 2017 · $18k
- HHHERSEYS HOUSE OF HOPEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +126%
- MMMID MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +121%
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.
To assist people with low or moderate income to obtain safe and affordable housing
Provide free legal assistance to indigent and low income persons
Choices of manistee county, inc. provides emergency shelter, crisis intervention, counseling, advocacy, and education to survivors of domestic violence in manistee county, empowering survivors to achieve safety and self-determination.
Through internal expertise, external partnerships, and advocacy, the area agency on aging of western michigan provides older adults, adults with disabilities, and their caregivers equitable access to services that promote independence and…
To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.
Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.
Focusing community resources to meet community needs the United Way of Marquette County works to advance the common good by connecting people with health and human care issues they are concerned about and to provide the oversight the…
Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County D/B/A Catholic Charities Washtenaw County provides diverse, holistic social services including adoption and pregnancy counseling, food and basic needs assistance, domestic and child abuse…
To serve individuals with disabilities by providing residential and personal support in a manner that promotes individual dignity, community integration and quality of life
Our mission is to assist our affiliates to increase capacity to build simple decent homes in partnership with people in need in the State of Michigan.
Through dedicated staff and community partnerships we provide services, resources, education and advocacy to improve the quality of life for all residents of muskegon and oceana counties.
The mission of harm reduction is to reduce substance abuse and related activities in a respectful manner in collaboration with the user
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid Michigan Community Action Agency Inc and the most unlike its peers is Herseys House of Hope. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 18 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 WOMENS INFORMATION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT STARBURST ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE LAKESHORE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MASON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Hospice of Michigan Inc ↗
- Who funds MECOSTA COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds TEN SIXTEEN RECOVERY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Mecosta County Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Legal Aid of Western Michigan ↗
- Who funds MECOSTA OSCEOLA YOUTH ATTENTION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HERSEYS HOUSE OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds MID MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA PANTRY OF BIG RAPIDS INC ↗
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: Fremont Area Community Foundation · Feeding America West Michigan · Consumers Energy Foundation · Dte Energy Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Mecosta - Osceola United Way Inc 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.
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