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Mi Poder

MI PODER's mission is to promote social welfare, including but not limited to, strengthening the michigan latinx voice and the capacity for leadership to mobilize its constituency and increase participation in democratic processes.

$263k
Granted FY2023
8
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$52k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2023 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $210k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HISPANIC CENTER OF WESTERN MI$52,140
LATIN AMERICANS UNITED FOR PROGRESS$30,440
HISPANIC AMERICAN COUNCIL INC$30,000
VOCES$30,000
CENTRO MULTICULTURAL LA FAMILIA INC$30,000
HISPANIC TECHNOLOGY & COMMUNITY CENTER$30,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WASHTENAW COUNTY$30,000
DETROIT HISPANCI DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$30,000
02The need
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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 (FY23–23, $82k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 37% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HISPANIC CENTER OF WESTERN MI: $52k → 11%VOCES: $30k → 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 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.

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Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
2
Hispanic Council

Education

Community Improvement
3
Latino Political Network
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4
Latinas Usa
Community Improvement
5
Latinas On the Plaza
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6
Latino Family Services Inc

Latino Family Services LFS is a community agency which provides and coordinates comprehensive human services to residents of Wayne County with particular emphasis on its Latino residents. These services will enhance the quality of life for…

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7
Latino Civic Alliance

The Latino Civic Alliance LCA is dedicated to advancing equity and justice for Latinos through advocacy education public policy and community engagement. It empowers the Latino community to fully participate in civic economic and social…

Civil Rights
8
Latin American Chamber of Commerce

To foster relationships between hispanic and non-hispanic business, associations, individuals and goverment to create new business opportunities

Community Improvement
9
Latinos in Virginia Empowerment Center

Provide education, advocacy, and support to spanish speaking individuals affected by violence and injustice in virginia to ensure that they can access services to empower them to become happy, healthy, and self- sufficient.

Crime & Legal
10
Young Latino Network

The mission of the Young Latino Network is to coalesce the power of Latinx/a/o/e communities in order to liberate and transform our people. We amplify our ability to enact change through community-building, civic engagement, and advocacy…

Arts & Culture
11
Latin American Coalition

The Coalition is dedicated to educating Latino immigrant newcomers, celebrating hispanic culture, and advocating for underserved segments of the population. Programs and initiatives include economic development, legal counsel, community…

Human Services
12
Corazon Latino
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voces; the most unlike its peers is Hispanic Technology & Community Center of Greater Flint. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

8 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LATIN AMERICANS UNITED FOR PROGRESS INC: $30,440 · OtherLATIN AMERICANS UNITED FOR PROGRESS INCJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WASHTENAW COUNTY INC: $30,000 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WASHTENAW COU…HISPANIC AMERICAN COUNCIL INC: $30,000 · OtherHISPANIC AMERICAN COUNCIL INCHISPANIC CENTER OF WESTERN MICHIGAN INC: $52,140 · Human ServicesHISPANIC CENTER OF WESTERN MICHIGAN…VOCES: $30,000 · Human ServicesVOCESCENTRO MULTICULTURAL LA FAMILIA INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureCENTRO MULTI…DETROIT HISPANIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $30,000 · Community ImprovementDETROIT HISP…HISPANIC TECHNOLOGY & COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER FLINT: $30,000 · Public BenefitHISPANIC TEC…
Other$90,440Human Services$82,140Arts & Culture$30,000Community Improvement$30,000Public Benefit$30,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHISPANIC CENTER OF WESTERN MICHIGAN INC: $52,140 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLATIN AMERICANS UNITED FOR PROGRESS INC: $30,440 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCENTRO MULTICULTURAL LA FAMILIA INC: $30,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WASHTENAW COUNTY INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDETROIT HISPANIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHISPANIC TECHNOLOGY & COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER FLINT: $30,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetHISPANIC AMERICAN COUNCIL INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVOCES: $30,000 over 1y, 1.6% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Hispanic Federation I…Detroit Hispanic Deve…DTE Energy FoundationWK Kellogg FoundationDonor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Hispanic Federation IncNY21.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hispanic Federation Inc · Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation · DTE Energy Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Mi Poder funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mi Poder. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 8 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 2023, released 2023. 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 no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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