· 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 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OSCEOLA COUNTY COMMISSION ON AGING | $10,000 |
| MECOSTA COUNTY COMMISSION ON AGING | $10,000 |
| MO INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL DISTRICT | $10,000 |
| PROJECT STARBURST | $8,000 |
| WOMEN'S INFORMATION SERVICE (WISE) | $8,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 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.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WIWOMENS INFORMATION SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $229k · revenue +75%
- PSPROJECT STARBURST9× · 2017–2025 · $168k · revenue +37% · 35% of their budget
- HOHospice of Michigan Inc5× · 2017–2021 · $53k · revenue +46%
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 +141%
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.
To assist people with low or moderate income to obtain safe and affordable housing
Provide free legal assistance to indigent and low income persons
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…
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…
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…
We gather and distribute food to relieve hunger and increase food security in west michigan and the upper peninsula. contributions and net assets consist primarily of donated food for distribution.
To serve individuals with disabilities by providing residential and personal support in a manner that promotes individual dignity, community integration and quality of life
The mission of the washtenaw housing alliance is to end homelessness in our community.
Emergency assistance in the form of food, utilities, rent, etc.
Provide comprehensive and coordinated services to the aging population of Muskegon, Ottawa, and Oceana Counties
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 18 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.
- 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 American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Mecosta County Habitat for Humanity ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Fremont Area Community Foundation · Feeding America West Michigan · Consumers Energy Foundation · DTE Energy Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mecosta - Osceola United Way Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mecosta - Osceola United Way Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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