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Michigan Casa Inc

Michigan casa, inc.

$708k
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$150k
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, FY2022 to 2024.

Crime & Legal$1.2MHuman Services$442kCivil Rights$181kHealth$71kCommunity Improvement$39k
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $433k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $269k
$23,271
Median grant
1
States reached
$358k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WAYNE COUNTY FRIENDS OF CASA$150,350
CASA FOR KIDS BARRY & EATON COUNTY$67,609
CASA OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN$50,848
CASA OF KENT COUNTY$49,255
CASA GREAT LAKES BAY REGION$46,039
CARE HOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY$36,032
CASA OF GENESEE COUNTY$31,466
CASA OF LIVINGSTON COUNTY$28,801
CASA OF OTTAWA COUNTY$26,925
SAFE HARBOR CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER$26,914
MUSKEGON COUNTY CASA$23,271
CASA OF MONTCALM COUNTY$21,357
HILLSDALE COUNTY CASA$20,232
CASA OF GRATIOT COUNTY$17,317
CASA OF MONROE COUNTY$17,255
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $516k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CASA OF MONTCALM COUNTY: $21k → 12%CASA OF MENOMINEE: $17k → 12%WAYNE COUNTY FRIENDS OF CASA: $150k → 21%CASA OF MENOMINEE: $17k → 12%WAYNE COUNTY FRIENDS OF CASA: $105k → 21%CASA OF MONTCALM COUNTY: $18k → 12%CASA OF MENOMINEE: $14k → 12%WAYNE COUNTY FRIENDS OF CASA: $104k → 21%CASA OF OTTAWA COUNTY: $27k → 10%CASA OF OTTAWA COUNTY: $22k → 10%CASA OF OTTAWA COUNTY: $21k → 10%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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 21 repeat orgs$36k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
1

Total granted

$1.9M
$20k

Still filing today

86%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Crime & LegalHuman ServicesCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • WAYNE COUNTY COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES
    3× · 2022–2024 · $359k · revenue +272% · 74% of their budget
  • CF
    CASA FOR KIDS INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $181k · revenue +39%
  • CA
    Court Appointed Special Advocates of Southwest MI
    3× · 2022–2024 · $140k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • CO
    CASA OF MONTCALM COUNTY
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
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 Casa Inc

Michigan casa, inc. is dedicated to changing the lives of abused and neglected children by advocating for their best interests through establishing, supporting, and expanding quality casa programs throughout the state of michigan to ensure…

Civil Rights
2
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Cook County

CASA of Cook County's vision is to protect abused and neglected children by providing them in court, a safe and permanent home, and an opportunity to grow, learn and thrive.

Crime & Legal
3
Canadian County Casa Inc

Serve nbsp;as nbsp;court nbsp;appointed nbsp;special nbsp;advocates nbsp;for nbsp;abused nbsp;and nbsp;neglected nbsp;children nbsp;in nbsp;the nbsp;judicial nbsp;system

Crime & Legal
4
Casa of Tipton County

Child Advocacy Services

Crime & Legal
5
Casa Childrens Intervention Services Inc

Provide a voice in a court for abused and neglected children through volunteer court and appointed advocates.

Civil Rights
6
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Camden County Inc

Advocate in the judicial system for the best interest of victims of abuse and neglect in foster care, giving the child a voice in court and moving the child to a safe and permanent home.

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7
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Milam County
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8
Casa of Kosciusko County Inc

Casa is committed to speaking in the best interest of children, who are at risk for abuse and neglect. casa recruits, trains, & supports volunteers to serve at-risk children in the family court system.

Civil Rights
9
Court Appointed Special Advocates

The Sonoma County Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) Program serves abused and neglected children coming before the Juvenile Court of Protection and Rehabilitation Services.

Civil Rights
10
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Union County Inc

Recruit, train and supervise volunteers to advocate for abused, neglected and abandoned children placed in foster homes. CASA volunteers ensure children's best interests remain the priority and their needs met while working to establish a…

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11
Casa for Kids Inc

The organization trains community members to become court appointed special advocates who will speak up for the best interest of abused and neglected children in the courts of washington county. casa volunteers review records, research…

Crime & Legal
12
Casa-Voices for Children

To recruit, train and supervise community volunteers to advocate for children/youth who have experienced abuse and/or neglect who are within the legal jurisdiction of the state.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wayne County Court Appointed Special Advocates; the most unlike its peers is Lacasa. 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

19 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. 19 of the 23 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
14/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WAYNE COUNTY COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES: $359,241 · Human ServicesWAYNE COUNTY COURT APPOINTED S…THE ARBOR CIRCLE CORPORATION: $70,509 · Human ServicesTHE ARBOR CIRCLE CORPORATIONCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES CASA OF MENOMINEE-MARINETTE: $47,007 · Human ServicesCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCA…EIGHTCAP INC: $39,439 · Human ServicesEIGHTCAP INCCourt Appointed Special Advocates of Southwest MI: $140,126 · Crime & LegalCourt Appointed Special Advoc…VOICES FOR CHILDREN ADVOCACY: $104,616 · Crime & LegalVOICES FOR CHILDREN ADVOCACYCAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY INC: $103,921 · Crime & LegalCAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY I…SAFE HARBOR CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $75,023 · Crime & LegalSAFE HARBOR CHILDREN'S ADVOCA…CAN COUNCIL GREAT LAKES BAY REGION HURON COUNTY: $55,819 · Crime & LegalCAN COUNCIL GREAT LAKES BAY R…+1 more: $16,154 · Crime & LegalCAN COUNCIL GREAT LAKES BAY REGION BAY COUNTY: $133,796 · OtherCAN COUNCIL GREAT LAKES BAY R…LACASA: $85,950 · OtherLACASACHILD ABUSE COUNCIL OF MUSKEGON COUNTY: $62,901 · OtherCHILD ABUSE COUNCIL OF MUSKEG…GRATIOT COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY ASSOCIATION: $46,942 · OtherGRATIOT COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY…CASA OF MONROE COUNTY: $45,381 · OtherCASA OF MONROE COUNTYIndividual grant recipient: $38,708 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE MARRIAGE & FAMILY CENTER: $31,609 · OtherTHE MARRIAGE & FAMILY CENTERCITY OF EAST LANSING: $27,766 · OtherCITY OF EAST LANSINGCASA OF MONTCALM COUNTY: $19,594 · OtherCASA FOR KIDS INC: $181,326 · Civil RightsCASA FOR KIDS INCCASA of Kent County Inc: $132,906 · Civil RightsCASA of Kent County …CASS COUNTY CASA INC: $32,155 · Civil RightsCASS COUNTY CASA INCHILLSDALE CASA INC: $51,886 · Youth Development
Human Services$516,196Crime & Legal$495,659Other$492,647Civil Rights$346,387Youth Development$51,886

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 budgetWAYNE COUNTY COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES: $359,241 over 3y, 74% of budgetCASA FOR KIDS INC: $181,326 over 3y, 12% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocates of Southwest MI: $140,126 over 3y, 22% of budgetCAN COUNCIL GREAT LAKES BAY REGION BAY COUNTY: $133,796 over 3y, 10% of budgetCASA of Kent County Inc: $132,906 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN ADVOCACY: $104,616 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetCAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY INC: $103,921 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetLACASA: $85,950 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSAFE HARBOR CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $75,023 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetTHE ARBOR CIRCLE CORPORATION: $70,509 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD ABUSE COUNCIL OF MUSKEGON COUNTY: $62,901 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetCAN COUNCIL GREAT LAKES BAY REGION HURON COUNTY: $55,819 over 3y, 16% of budgetHILLSDALE CASA INC: $51,886 over 3y, 18% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES CASA OF MENOMINEE-MARINETTE: $47,007 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetGRATIOT COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY ASSOCIATION: $46,942 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetEIGHTCAP INC: $39,439 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCASS COUNTY CASA INC: $32,155 over 3y, 9.0% of budgetTHE MARRIAGE & FAMILY CENTER: $31,609 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCASA THE VOICE FOR CLINTON COUNTYS CHILDREN: $16,154 over 1y, 11% 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.

National Court Appoin…Rite Aid Healthy Futu…Consumers Energy Foun…National Children's A…Charities Aid Foundat…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
National Court Appointed Special Advocate AssociationWA19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association · Rite Aid Healthy Futures · Consumers Energy Foundation · National Children's Alliance Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Michigan Casa Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michigan Casa Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Michigan Casa Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Michigan Casa Inc 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 23 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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