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Michigan Association of United Ways Inc

To serve as a statewide resource by providing leadership, excellence, partnership, and stewardship through the provision of expert services for the charitable and human service sector.

$138k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Health$2.3MPhilanthropy$856kEducation$264kPublic Safety & Disaster$163kYouth Development$118kHuman Services$39kCrime & Legal$11kArts & Culture$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 14 grants below total $80,689 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $138,266 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $57,577 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.

$5,450
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BANGOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS$7,500
LANSING SCHOOL DISTRICT$7,500
UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN$6,710
UNITED WAY OF GENESEE COUNTY$6,035
HEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY$5,800
UNITED WAY OF NORTHEAST MICHIGAN$5,575
UNITED WAY OF GRATIOT AND ISABELLA COUNTIES$5,450
BAY COUNTY UNITED WAY$5,290
UNITED WAY OF MIDLAND COUNTY$5,250
UNITED WAY OF MONTCALM-IONIA COUNTIES$5,181
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN$5,135
UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN$5,133
UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN$5,120
LIVINGSTON COUNTY UNITED WAY$5,010
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.

area typical 11%UPCAP SERVICES INC: $10k → 13%COMMUNITY ACCESS LINE OF THE LAKESHORE INC: $14k → 15%ACTIVE BOYS IN CHRIST: $6k → 17%PEACE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $6k → 13%UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $5k → 15%MOTHERLY INTERCESSION INC: $6k → 16%SW MICHIGAN UNITED WAY: $12k → 14%LAKE SUPERIOR ACADEMY: $6k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.2M · 29 repeat orgs$547k to everyone else

29 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
53

Total granted

$3.2M
$527k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-11%
+3%

Still filing today

79%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’22’23’24
PhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEducationCrime & LegalHealthOther

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

  • UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN
    4× · 2020–2024 · $582k · revenue +42%
  • UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN
    4× · 2018–2023 · $467k · revenue +89%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF THE LAKESHORE
    3× · 2020–2023 · $143k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • NEW CITY KIDS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $68k · revenue -55%
  • CA
    Capital Area United Way Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $43k · revenue -31%
  • MC
    MACOMB CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE ACCES
    one grant, 2018 · $33k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
United Way of North Central Ohio Inc

At united way of north central ohio, we bring people, organizations, and resources together to create solutions that improve the lives of every person in every community in our region.

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2
United Way Manitowoc County Inc

United way's mission is to improve lives.

Philanthropy
3
United Way of Marquette County

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…

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4
United Way of the Midlands

United way connects people and resources to improve the quality of life in the midlands. united way invests in a broad range of community programs that increase access to health care, improve student success, assist people in crisis to…

Philanthropy
5
United Way of Wayne and Holmes Co

In order to mobilize community resources to help people measurably improve their lives - we work collaboratively with our community to identify priorities, and then decide which strategies, dollars, and partnerships should be used to bring…

Philanthropy
6
United Way of Wayne County Inc

United way of wayne county is a community based organization, working in partnership with local non-profit organizations to strategically address many of our community's social issues. united way of wayne county invested in a number of…

Philanthropy
7
United Way of Bucks County

United way of bucks county creates opportunities for quality education, financial stability, and good health to ensure real, lasting change for individuals and our communities.

Philanthropy
8
United Way of the Midlands

United way of the midlands mission is "we unite our community's caring spirit to build a stronger tomorrow".

Philanthropy
9
Lakes Area United Way

The mission of crow wing county united way inc. is to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our community. it does this each day through the partnerships created throughout the communities it serves. whether it is board members,…

Philanthropy
10
United Way of Union County Inc

The mission of the united way of union county is to bring neighbors and resources together to improve lives.

Philanthropy
11
United Way of Whiteside County

Providing dynamic leadership in uniting people and resources to create lasting change that improves lives and strengthens our communities.

Philanthropy
12
United Way of Mcminn and Meigs Counties

To build a stronger, caring community by uniting our resources and enhance the human services available in mcminn and meigs counties.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heart of West Michigan United Way and the most unlike its peers is Empowered Enterprise Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%4%<5yr13%14%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr15%27%20–35yr14%16%35–55yr18%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr13%2%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr15%30%20–35yr14%7%35–55yr18%58%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/79
the rest of the field
12%
6,511/53,777

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

59 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. 59 of the 85 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/59
Grantees still filing
29/59
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN — $467,133 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGANHEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY — $229,911 · PhilanthropyHEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAYUNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN — $221,690 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGANUNITED WAY OF GENESEE COUNTY — $185,513 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GENESEE COUNTYUNITED WAY OF SAGINAW COUNTY — $146,587 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SAGINAW COUNTYUNITED WAY OF THE LAKESHORE — $142,963 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE LAKESHOREUNITED WAY OF MONROELENAWEE COUNTIES INC — $126,628 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF MONROELENAWEE COUNTIES INCST JOSEPH COUNTY UNITED WAY — $121,244 · PhilanthropyST JOSEPH COUNTY UNITED WAYUNITED WAY OF ST CLAIR COUNTY — $101,289 · Philanthropy+9 more — $162,311 · Philanthropy+9 moreUNITED WAY OF WASHTENAW COUNTY — $171,603 · OtherUNITED WAY OF WASHTENAW COUNT…GREATER OTTAWA COUNTY UNITED WAY — $147,737 · OtherGREATER OTTAWA COUNTY UNITED …United Way of Montcalm-Ionia Counties — $115,211 · OtherUnited Way of Montcalm-Ionia …UNITED WAY OF GREATER CENTRAL MICHIGAN — $104,172 · OtherUNITED WAY OF GREATER CENTRAL…Capital Area United Way Inc — $42,698 · OtherMacomb Community Action — $36,616 · OtherMACOMB CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE ACCES — $33,000 · Other+38 more — $316,145 · Other+38 moreUNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $582,434 · Public Safety & DisasterUNITED WAY FOR SO…NEW CITY KIDS INC — $68,406 · Youth DevelopmentReaching Our Community Kids — $5,500 · Youth DevelopmentACTIVE BOYS IN CHRIST — $5,500 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH DEVELOPMENT COMPANY AND POLICE ATHLETIC ACTIVITIES LEAGUE — $5,500 · Youth DevelopmentTODD MARTIN DEVELOPMENT FUND — $5,500 · Youth DevelopmentPEACEPLAYERS INTERNATIONAL — $5,500 · Youth DevelopmentSOUND MIND SOUND BODY FOUNDATION — $5,500 · Youth DevelopmentSaginaw S T E M — $5,233 · Youth DevelopmentPeace Neighborhood Center — $22,631 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACCESS LINE OF THE LAKESHORE 211 — $13,721 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF BERSTON — $11,000 · Human ServicesUPCAP SERVICES INC — $10,197 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF CLARE COUNTY — $5,500 · Human ServicesDETROIT MAGIC CHILD DEVELOPMENT — $5,500 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK — $5,500 · Human ServicesSTEM GREENHOUSE INC — $25,197 · EducationCODE313 — $17,424 · EducationDistinctive Schools of Illinois — $11,803 · EducationMath Corps — $11,000 · EducationGREATER FLINT HEALTH COALITION INC — $11,250 · HealthRISE CORP — $11,142 · Health
Philanthropy$1,905,269Other$967,182Public Safety & Disaster$582,434Youth Development$106,639Human Services$74,049Education$65,424Health$22,392

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $582,434 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN — $467,133 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetHEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY — $229,911 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN — $221,690 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GENESEE COUNTY — $185,513 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WASHTENAW COUNTY — $171,603 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetGREATER OTTAWA COUNTY UNITED WAY — $147,737 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SAGINAW COUNTY — $146,587 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE LAKESHORE — $142,963 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MONROELENAWEE COUNTIES INC — $126,628 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetST JOSEPH COUNTY UNITED WAY — $121,244 over 2y, 11% of budgetUnited Way of Montcalm-Ionia Counties — $115,211 over 3y, 17% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER CENTRAL MICHIGAN — $104,172 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ST CLAIR COUNTY — $101,289 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetNEW CITY KIDS INC — $68,406 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN — $50,872 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCapital Area United Way Inc — $42,698 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSTEM GREENHOUSE INC — $25,197 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetROSCOMMON COUNTY UNITED WAY — $23,411 over 2y, 18% of budgetPeace Neighborhood Center — $22,631 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHEAST MICHIGAN — $19,532 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetLIVINGSTON COUNTY UNITED WAY — $19,109 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MASON COUNTY — $18,967 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCODE313 — $17,424 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetMECOSTA - OSCEOLA UNITED WAY INC — $14,249 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF JACKSON COUNTY — $14,104 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOTSEGO COUNTY UNITED WAY INC — $14,087 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetUnited Way of Midland County — $13,999 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACCESS LINE OF THE LAKESHORE 211 — $13,721 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetDistinctive Schools of Illinois — $11,803 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER FLINT HEALTH COALITION INC — $11,250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRISE CORP — $11,142 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF BERSTON — $11,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMath Corps — $11,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUPCAP SERVICES INC — $10,197 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChar-Em United Way Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetALLEGAN COUNTY UNITED WAY — $9,749 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetPLYMOUTH COMMUNITY UNITED WAY — $9,549 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF LAPEER COUNTY — $8,799 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WEXFORD-MISSAUKEE COUNTIES — $8,799 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE EASTERN UPPER PENINSULA — $7,147 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetEMPOWERED ENTERPRISE INC — $6,481 over 1y, 21% of budgetMID-MICHIGAN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $5,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAT BAT INC — $5,500 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetReaching Our Community Kids — $5,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CLARE COUNTY — $5,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetACTIVE BOYS IN CHRIST — $5,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetWOLDUMAR NATURE ASSOCIATION — $5,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budget
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.

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.

Consumers Energy Foun…Dte Energy FoundationTr Ua Fifth Third Fou…Heart of West Michiga…United Way for Southe…AT&T FoundationComerica Charitable F…Charles Stewart Mott …Pnc FoundationMichigan Health Endow…Michigan College Acce…United Way Worldwide
Consumers Energy FoundationMI76.8× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Consumers Energy Foundation · Dte Energy Foundation · Tr Ua Fifth Third Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · AT&T Foundation · Comerica Charitable Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Pnc Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Michigan College Access Network · United Way Worldwide

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 Michigan Association of United Ways 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 85 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $26k 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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