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Michigan Beer & Wine Wholesalers Assn at a glance

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Michigan Beer & Wine Wholesalers Assn

To promote and protect the general welfare and interests of michigan wholesale beer and wine distributors; to facilitate good will in the distribution industry; to educate the members and the public; and to promote the responsible use of the products they distribute.

$217k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Public Benefit$504kEmployment$30kHealth$10k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $190,488, the rows itemized in this filing. The $217,092 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $26,604 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.
$40,122
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GRACE FUND$45,122
INNOVATE MICHIGAN FUND$40,122
MAKING MICHIGAN STRONGER$40,122
ACCOUNTABILITY FOR GOVERNMENT FUND$40,122
MICHIGAN EMPOWERMENT FUND$25,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 18%. 11% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 18%BUILDING A BETTER ECONOMY: $35k → 12%GREAT LAKES JOBS ALLIANCE: $30k → 16%PRESERVE MICHIGAN'S FUTURE FUND: $15k → 21%CENTER FOR ALCOHOL POLICY: $10k → 9%BUILDING A BETTER ECONOMY: $20k → 12%MAKING MICHIGAN STRONGER: $45k → 16%MICHIGAN VALUES: $10k → 21%MAKING MICHIGAN STRONGER: $40k → 16%MAKING MICHIGAN STRONGER: $26k → 16%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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$404k · 5 repeat orgs$140k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
6

Total granted

$404k
$100k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+59%

Still filing today

100%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
Public BenefitHealthOther
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

  • MM
    MAKING MICHIGAN STRONGER
    3× · 2023–2025 · $111k
  • GR
    GRAND RAPIDS AREA COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT FUND GRACE FUND
    3× · 2023–2025 · $103k · revenue -1%
  • ME
    MICHIGAN EMPOWERMENT FUND
    2× · 2024–2025 · $85k

Funded once

  • GL
    GREAT LAKES JOBS ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +173%
  • RT
    Road to Michigan's Futuregraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +59%
  • PM
    Preserve Michigans Future Fund
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -100%
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
Michigan Rising Action

Michigan Rising Action is focused on holding special interest networks accountable and advancing conservative principles. We're fighting for limited government, lowering taxes, fighting government over-regulation that stifles freedom, free…

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2
Protecting Michigans Future Fund

To operate exclusively for the promotion of civic action and social welfare by promoting the common good and general welfare of the residents of, and visitors to the State of Michigan; To support public policies on the federal, state, and…

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3
Put Progress First

To operate exclusively for the promotion of civic action and social welfare by promoting the common good and general welfare of the residents of, and visitors to, the State of Michigan; To support public policies on the federal, state, and…

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4
Defend Your Vote

To oppose a Michigan ballot measure

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5
Michigan Center of Accountability for Republicans

Social welfare and issue advocacy

Civil Rights
6
Michigan Courage Fund

To promote civic action and social welfare by promoting the common good and general welfare of the residents of and visitors to the State of Michigan; to support public policies on the federal, state, and local levels that will bring about…

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7
Voters for Transparency and Term Limits

To operate exclusively for the promotion of civic action and social welfare by promoting the common good and general welfare of the residents of, and visitors to the State of Michigan; to support public policies on the federal, state, and…

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8
Michigan Citizens for Better Health

To operate exclusively for the promotion of civic action and social welfare by promoting the common good and general welfare of the residents of, and visitors to the State of Michigan; To support public policies on the federal, state, and…

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9
Lift Up Michigan

To promote the common good and general welfare of Michiganders through advocacy, research, and participation in public policy initiatives concerning the economy, health, safety, environment, civic engagement, and good governance.

Public Benefit
10
The Michigan Glass Project
Public Benefit
11
Mi Vision

To operate exclusively for the promotion of civic action and social welfare by promoting the common good and general welfare of Michigan residents and visitors; to promote and encourage citizen participation in political and civic events;…

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12
Protecting Detroits Future

To operate exclusively for the promotion of civic action and social welfare by promoting the common good and general welfare of the residents of, and visitors to, the State of Michigan; To support public policies on the federal, state, and…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Michigan Values; the most unlike its peers is The Center for Alcohol Policy. 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

12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
5/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAKING MICHIGAN STRONGER: $111,122 · OtherMAKING MICHIGAN STRONGERGRAND RAPIDS AREA COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT FUND GRACE FUND: $102,622 · OtherGRAND RAPIDS AREA COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT FUND GRACE FUNDBuilding a Better Economy: $55,000 · OtherBuilding a Better EconomyAccountability for Government Fund Inc: $50,122 · OtherAccountability for Government Fund IncINNOVATE MICHIGAN FUND: $40,122 · OtherINNOVATE MICHIGAN FUNDGREAT LAKES JOBS ALLIANCE: $30,000 · OtherGREAT LAKES JOBS ALLIANCERoad to Michigan's Future: $25,000 · OtherRoad to Michigan's FuturePreserve Michigans Future Fund: $15,000 · Other+2 more: $20,000 · OtherMICHIGAN EMPOWERMENT FUND: $85,000 · Public BenefitMICHIGAN EMPOWERM…The Center for Alcohol Policy: $10,000 · Health
Other$448,988Public Benefit$85,000Health$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAKING MICHIGAN STRONGER: $111,122 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS AREA COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT FUND GRACE FUND: $102,622 over 3y, 23% of budgetMICHIGAN EMPOWERMENT FUND: $85,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetBuilding a Better Economy: $55,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetAccountability for Government Fund Inc: $50,122 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetRoad to Michigan's Future: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMICHIGAN TRANSITION 2019: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMichigan Values: $10,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetThe Center for Alcohol Policy: $10,000 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.

Coalition to Promote …Citizens for Energizi…Michigan Energy FirstMichigan Health Leade…Michigan Citizens for…Michigan Health & Hos…Pharmaceutical Resear…Sports Betting Allian…
Coalition to Promote Public Entity Risk PoolsMI24.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Coalition to Promote Public Entity Risk Pools · Citizens for Energizing Michigan's Economy · Michigan Energy First · Michigan Health Leadership Fund · Michigan Citizens for Better Health · Michigan Health & Hospital Association Dba Mha · Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America · Sports Betting Alliance

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 Michigan Beer & Wine Wholesalers Assn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michigan Beer & Wine Wholesalers Assn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Michigan Beer & Wine Wholesalers Assn?

    Find your warmest path to Michigan Beer & Wine Wholesalers Assn through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 12 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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