· Public charity
Michigan College Access Network
Our goal: increase the percentage of michigan residents with postsecondary certificates or degrees to 60 percent by the year 2030.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 75 grants below total $1,063,389 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,523,394 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $460,005 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $153k
- $10k–50k52 grants · $665k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $246k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $165,805 |
| GENESEE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL DISTRICT | $80,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR OCEANA COUNTY | $39,000 |
| BAY CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $35,500 |
| CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| NORTHEAST MICHIGAN CONSORTIUM | $20,000 |
| GROW BENZIE | $18,000 |
| MONTCALM COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $18,000 |
| PUBLIC SCHOOL ACADEMIES OF DETROIT - UNIVERSITY PREP SCIENCE & MATH | $16,000 |
| DETROIT LEADERSHIP ACADEMY | $15,500 |
| JALEN ROSE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY | $15,000 |
| PUBLIC SCHOOL ACADEMIES OF DETROIT - UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY ACADEMY ART & D | $15,000 |
| DETROIT EDISON PUBLIC SCHOOL ACADEMY (V) | $15,000 |
| SEMCA | $15,000 |
| GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $264k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% of those 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 +50% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
171 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2025, 128 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $303k 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
- SMSOUTHEAST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ALLIANCE4× · 2018–2025 · $193k · revenue +26%
- HFHENRY FORD COLLEGE FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2022 · $155k · revenue +5%
DETROIT REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +149%
Funded once
- OCOTTAWA COUNTY ISDone grant, 2018 · $150k
- CECommunity Education Commissiongraduatedone grant, 2017 · $43k · revenue +28%
- NCNEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $35k · revenue 0%
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.
Center for success unites literacy and community to empower students in the journey of education.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
Michigan Colleges Alliance is a collective of excellent independent colleges and universities located throughout Michigan. MCA helps students pursue their educational goals by organizing on campus tours, funding scholarships and connecting…
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
To initiate, cultivate, and fund strategic nonpartisan efforts in michigan to promote economic and educational opportunity; enhance the quality of life and social welfare; defend and improve government accountability, ethics, and…
Cooperatively empowering credit unions to increase financial well-being by supporting community enrichment, financial education, and credit union development initiatives
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
Lansing Promise helps students in gaining access to higher education through readiness and scholarships.
The Mission of the Oakland Community College Foundation is to obtain financial support to advance the mission and goals of Oakland Community College
The mission of kalamazoo college is to prepare its graduates to better understand, live sucessfully within, and provide enlightened leadership to a richly diverse and increasingly complex world. as a highly selective, nationally renowened…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Four County Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Jays Foundation. 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 29 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
100 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. 100 of the 385 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MUSKEGON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds HENRY FORD COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Huron County Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds OTSEGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR OCEANA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Tuscola County Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds DETROIT REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WINNING FUTURES ↗
- Who funds Capital Area United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds GROW BENZIE INC ↗
- Who funds Jackson Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds BENZIE AREA CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE AND CAREER ACCESS CENTER OF JACKSON ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN COLLEGE ACCESS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Community Education Commission ↗
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: Consumers Energy Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Sme Education Foundation · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Dte Energy Foundation · Michigan Elementary and Middle School Principals Association Inc · Community Foundation for Muskegon County · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Michigan Physical Fitness Health and Sports Foundation · State Alliance of Michigan YMCAs (0050) · Frey Foundation
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 College Access Network 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.
- Fund for Educational Excellence Inc — 1% of income from government
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.