· Public charity
Michigan Chamber of Commerce
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
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
- $50k–250k1 grant · $105k
- $250k+1 grant · $446k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MICHIGAN CHAMBER PAC III | $446,197 |
| JUDICIAL INTEGRITY PROJECT | $105,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of its 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 96% of Michigan Chamber of Commerce’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 71% of the giving stays in MI; by stated purpose, 4%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +70% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MCMICHIGAN CHAMBER PAC III6× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M
- MRMICHIGAN REPUBLICAN PARTY4× · 2017–2021 · $425k
- MCMICHIGAN CHAMBER FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $401k · revenue +688% · 47% of their budget
Funded once
- RSRepublican State Leadershipone grant, 2023 · $950k
- TCTen Capitol Incone grant, 2017 · $108k
- FCFalls Communications Incone grant, 2017 · $60k
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 oppose a Michigan ballot measure
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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…
To provide the voters of michigan with an understanding of how current policy initiatives will affect michigan's economic well-being.
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.
Social welfare and issue advocacy
To advocate for the cannabis manufacturers in michigan
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…
To research and promote issues concerning education, economic opportunity, individual freedoms and public policy within the state of michigan and to support activities and programs that improve the quality and effectiveness of local and…
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…
The organization's mission is to promote a healthy business climate for its members and all businesses in macomb county, michigan.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 34 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.
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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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Michigan Chamber of Commerce funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michigan Chamber of Commerce. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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