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Michigan Civic Action Fund
Promoting community welfare and providing community education in michigan by increasing voter participation through nonpartisan research and voter mobilization; increasing voter awareness of public policy issues through nonpartisan educational means; defending human and civil rights such as the right to vote; and recruiting and training…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k6 grants · $155k
- $50k–250k24 grants · $2.9M
- $250k+12 grants · $11M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOR MICHIGAN | $5,040,000 |
| PROGRESS MICHIGAN | $1,277,500 |
| JUSTICE FOR ALL- MICHIGAN | $950,000 |
| MICHIGAN CIVIC EDUCATION FUND | $815,000 |
| EQUALITY MICHIGAN ACTION NETWORK | $510,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD ADVOCATES OF MI | $500,000 |
| COMMITTEE TO PROTECT HEALTH CARE | $495,000 |
| CLEAN WATER ACTION | $400,000 |
| MICHIGAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY | $375,000 |
| MI PODER | $363,000 |
| IN UNION USA ACTION | $350,000 |
| MICHIGAN PEOPLES CAMPAIGN | $325,000 |
| CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS | $225,000 |
| MICHIGAN LEAGUE OF CONSERV VOTERS | $225,000 |
| PROMOTE THE VOTE | $200,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 82% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +73% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8.8M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- PMProgress Michigan Inc6× · 2018–2024 · $6.8M · revenue +94% · 69% of their budget
- EMEQUALITY MICHIGAN ACTION NETWORK3× · 2022–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +13% · 48% of their budget
- MPMI PODER3× · 2022–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +324% · 100% of their budget
Funded once
- FOFOR OUR FUTURE ACTION PACone grant, 2018 · $685k
- MCMICHIGAN CENTER OF ACCOUNTABILITYone grant, 2022 · $615k
- MSMURRAY STREET SERVICES LLCone grant, 2022 · $550k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
To oppose a Michigan ballot measure
Promoting community welfare and providing community education in michigan by increasing voter participation through nonpartisan research and voter mobilization; increasing voter awareness of public policy issues through nonpartisan…
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 promote job retention and creation in the State of 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…
Michigan conservative action policies (mcap) is an organization dedicated to educating michiganders on important policy issues. the organization conducts policy research and public polling in michigan to better understand current opinions…
A coalition of organizations and individuals committed to ensuring michigan has a voting system that works for all of us.
Clean Jobs for Michigan is building a future we can all be proud of. Through advocating for clean water clean energy and good-paying clean jobs were working to build a Michigan that will sustain our natural resources and hardworking…
Works to end environmental injustice by empowering communities at the grassroots level.the corporation is organzied exclusively for charitable, religious, educational and scientific purposes, including for such purposes, the makeing of…
To advance the safety, independence, and economic stability of those most affected by poverty, racism, and other structurally oppressive systems by increasing access to justice and working for systemic solutions.
Promote the vote works to expand the electorate, educate citizens on voting rights, reform redistricting, engage civic participation and provide election protection in michigan, and to advocate on behalf of those issues. as it relates to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Michigan Voices and the most unlike its peers is Elevated Voices Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 6 years old; the field is 17. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 37% of your grantees by number, and just 43% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
52 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. 52 of the 73 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Progress Michigan Inc ↗
- Who funds FOR MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD ADVOCATES OF MI ↗
- Who funds EQUALITY MICHIGAN ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds MI PODER ↗
- Who funds In Union USA Action ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN CIVIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds CLEAN WATER ACTION ↗
- Who funds Michigan Peoples Campaign ↗
- Who funds Berrien Forward ↗
- Who funds TIDES ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE TO PROTECT HEALTH CARE ↗
- Who funds CIVIC EMPOWERMENT COALITION ↗
- Who funds PROSPERITY MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds FOR OUR FUTURE ACTION FUND ↗
- Who funds America Votes ↗
- Who funds ACTBLUE CIVICS INC ↗
- Who funds ARAB AMERICANS FOR PROGRESS ↗
- Who funds MOTHERING JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds COUNT MI VOTE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Distill Social ↗
- Who funds We The People Action Fund ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FIRST POLICY ↗
- Who funds Elevated Voices Inc ↗
- Who funds ACTION FOR LIBERATION ↗
- Who funds GLPA-LEAD ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · America Votes · Progress Michigan Inc · North Fund · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Tides Advocacy · Tides Foundation · State Engagement Fund · Hopewell Fund · Michigan Civic Education Fund · Pro-Democracy Campaign · Open Society Action Fund Inc
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 Civic Action Fund 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.
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.
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