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Michigan College Access Network

Our goal: increase the percentage of michigan residents with postsecondary certificates or degrees to 60 percent by the year 2030.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
75
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$166k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$9.6MPhilanthropy$892kCommunity Improvement$385kPublic Safety & Disaster$300kEmployment$277kYouth Development$209kHuman Services$116kReligion$111kOther$0
02FY2025 · 75 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 75 grants below total $1,063,389, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,523,394 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $460,005 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.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $153k
  • $10k–50k52 grants · $665k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $246k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY$165,805
GENESEE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL DISTRICT$80,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR OCEANA COUNTY$39,000
BAY CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS$35,500
NORTHEAST MICHIGAN CONSORTIUM$20,000
CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY$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
PUBLIC SCHOOL ACADEMIES OF DETROIT - UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY ACADEMY ART & D$15,000
SEMCA$15,000
GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY$15,000
DETROIT EDISON PUBLIC SCHOOL ACADEMY (V)$15,000
JALEN ROSE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY$15,000
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GREATER MIDLAND COLEMAN FAMILY CENTER: $10k → 19%VOCES: $10k → 14%TELAMON CORPORATION: $10k → 10%YMCA OF GREATER GRAND RAPIDS: $10k → 11%YMCA OF GREATER GRAND RAPIDS: $5k → 11%ST VINCENT AND SARAH FISHER CENTER: $10k → 21%ST VINCENT AND SARAH FISHER CENTER: $6k → 21%SEMCAWAYNE COUNTY COLLEGE ACCESS NETWORK: $100k → 21%SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $50k → 21%SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $28k → 21%SEMCA: $15k → 21%JAY'S FOUNDATION: $10k → 21%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
MA
IN
CT
NE
MO
MD
DC
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.6M · 171 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +70% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

171
166

Total granted

$9.6M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%
+3%

Still filing today

18%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $303k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • SM
    SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ALLIANCE
    4× · 2018–2025 · $193k · revenue +57%
  • HF
    HENRY FORD COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $155k · revenue +5%
  • DETROIT REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +149%

Funded once

  • OC
    OTTAWA COUNTY ISD
    one grant, 2018 · $150k
  • CE
    Community Education Commissiongraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $43k · revenue +28%
  • NC
    NEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $35k · revenue 0%
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
Center for Success Network

Center for success unites literacy and community to empower students in the journey of education.

Community Improvement
2
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
3
Michigan Colleges Alliance

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…

Education
4
Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

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.…

Community Improvement
5
Business Leaders for Michigan

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.…

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6
Mid Michigan Community Action Agency Inc

Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.

—
7
Michigan Civic Education Fund

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…

Civil Rights
8
Michigan Credit Union Foundation

Cooperatively empowering credit unions to increase financial well-being by supporting community enrichment, financial education, and credit union development initiatives

Public Benefit
9
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

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10
Lansing Promise

Lansing Promise helps students in gaining access to higher education through readiness and scholarships.

Education
11
Oakland Community College Foundation

The Mission of the Oakland Community College Foundation is to obtain financial support to advance the mission and goals of Oakland Community College

Education
12
Kalamazoo 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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Four County Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

100 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
97/100
Grantees still filing
70/100
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $4,336,025 · OtherMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYGENESEE ISD: $450,000 · Other+143 more: $4,129,472 · Other+143 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MUSKEGON COUNTY: $284,300 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY…Huron County Community Foundation: $112,000 · PhilanthropyHuron Cou…OTSEGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $95,000 · PhilanthropyOTSEGO CO…Tuscola County Community Foundation: $81,000 · PhilanthropyTuscola C…Jackson Community Foundation: $62,500 · PhilanthropyJackson C…UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $60,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WA…BAY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $40,000 · PhilanthropyMIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $37,500 · PhilanthropyNEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Philanthropy+7 more: $128,325 · Philanthropy+7 moreHENRY FORD COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $154,800 · EducationWINNING FUTURES: $77,061 · EducationCOLLEGE AND CAREER ACCESS CENTER OF JACKSON: $48,000 · EducationMICHIGAN COLLEGE ACCESS NETWORK: $47,500 · EducationCommunity Education Commission: $42,500 · EducationHAZEL PARK PROMISE ZONE AUTHORITY: $39,000 · EducationINDIANA AFTERSCHOOL NETWORK INC: $35,000 · EducationFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC: $35,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOOLS OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN INC: $31,300 · EducationK-CONNECT: $30,720 · EducationTHE MICHIGAN HISPANIC COLLABORATIVE: $30,000 · Education+14 more: $215,424 · EducationCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR OCEANA COUNTY: $85,669 · Community ImprovementDETROIT REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 · Community ImprovementGROW BENZIE INC: $73,000 · Community ImprovementWARRENCONNER DEVELOPMENT COALITION: $20,000 · Community ImprovementWEST MICHIGAN HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $20,000 · Community ImprovementTALENTFIRST INC FKA TALENT FIRST INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementSOUTHEAST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $193,000 · Human ServicesST VINCENT & SARAH FISHER CENTER: $16,000 · Human ServicesThe Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Grand Rapids (3019): $15,000 · Human ServicesJAYS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesBENZIE AREA CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS INC: $60,000 · ReligionTHE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentCLINGMAN FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentReaching Our Community Kids: $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$8,915,497Philanthropy$935,625Education$786,305Community Improvement$288,669Human Services$234,000Religion$60,000Youth Development$40,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MUSKEGON COUNTY: $284,300 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTHEAST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $193,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHENRY FORD COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $154,800 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetHuron County Community Foundation: $112,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetOTSEGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $95,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR OCEANA COUNTY: $85,669 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTuscola County Community Foundation: $81,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetDETROIT REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWINNING FUTURES: $77,061 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetCapital Area United Way Inc: $74,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetGROW BENZIE INC: $73,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetJackson Community Foundation: $62,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $60,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBENZIE AREA CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS INC: $60,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCOLLEGE AND CAREER ACCESS CENTER OF JACKSON: $48,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetMICHIGAN COLLEGE ACCESS NETWORK: $47,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity Education Commission: $42,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetBAY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHAZEL PARK PROMISE ZONE AUTHORITY: $39,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetMIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $37,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINDIANA AFTERSCHOOL NETWORK INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOOLS OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN INC: $31,300 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetK-CONNECT: $30,720 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetLENAWEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKINEXUS YOUTH SOLUTIONS: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MICHIGAN HISPANIC COLLABORATIVE: $30,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetDESTINATION EDUCATION: $22,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetWEST MICHIGAN CENTER FOR ARTS & TECHNOLOGY: $21,200 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetWARRENCONNER DEVELOPMENT COALITION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFremont Area Community Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ST CLAIR COUNTY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGIVE MERIT INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLenawee Economic Development Corp: $20,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetWEST MICHIGAN HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetThe Refugee Education Center: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFRESH PERSPECTIVES SEMINARS: $19,997 over 2y, 12% of budgetGLEN OAKS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $19,912 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $19,815 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCAPITAL AREA LITERACY COALITION: $16,500 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetDOWNTOWN BOXING GYM YOUTH PROGRAM: $16,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetST VINCENT & SARAH FISHER CENTER: $16,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Grand Rapids (3019): $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMANISTEE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $13,325 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

  • 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 UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds BENZIE AREA CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS INC ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE AND CAREER ACCESS CENTER OF JACKSON ↗
  • Who funds MICHIGAN COLLEGE ACCESS NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds Community Education Commission ↗

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.

Consumers Energy Foun…United Way for Southe…Sme Education Foundat…For Inspiration and R…DTE Energy FoundationMichigan Elementary a…Community Foundation …Grand Rapids Communit…Community Foundation …Michigan Physical Fit…State Alliance of Mic…Frey Foundation
Consumers Energy FoundationMI65.2× affinity50 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 College Access Network funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michigan College Access Network. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Fund for Educational Excellence Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
31report 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.

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 385 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home