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Michigan Community Action Inc

Michigan Community Action leads and serves a poverty-fighting network.

$12k
Granted FY2021
1
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.

Community Improvement$12MHuman Services$11MPublic Benefit$782kHealth$654kInternational$633kEducation$262kHousing & Shelter$119kEnvironment$61kOther$0
02FY2021 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$12,318
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WASHTENAW COUNTY OFFICE OF COMMUNIT$12,318
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $5.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 58% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%NORTHWEST MICHIGAN CAA: $295k → 10%MONROE COUNTY OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM: $218k → 10%ALLEGAN COUNTY RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT: $93k → 10%FIVECAP: $203k → 10%COMMUNITY ACTION ALLEGAN COUNTY: $126k → 11%EIGHTCAP: $27k → 12%HUMAN DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION: $226k → 12%DICKINSON IRON COMMUNITY SERVICES A: $40k → 13%BARAGA-HOUGHTON-KEWEENAW COMMUNITY: $126k → 14%EIGHTCAP: $353k → 15%NORTHEAST MICHIGAN CSA: $248k → 16%GOGEBIC ONTONAGON COMMUNITY ACTION: $58k → 17%SAGINAW COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION: $303k → 18%NORTHWEST MICHIGAN CAA: $239k → 10%MONROE COUNTY OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM: $154k → 10%COMMUNITY ACTION ALLEGAN COUNTY: $80k → 10%FIVECAP: $165k → 10%ALGER-MARQUETTE COMMUNITY ACTION BO: $111k → 11%HUMAN DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION: $185k → 12%DICKINSON IRON COMMUNITY SERVICES A: $26k → 13%BARAGA-HOUGHTON-KEWEENAW COMMUNITY: $88k → 14%EIGHTCAP: $280k → 15%NORTHEAST MICHIGAN CSA: $204k → 16%GOGEBIC ONTONAGON COMMUNITY ACTION: $53k → 17%SAGINAW COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION: $227k → 18%NORTHWEST MICHIGAN CAA: $156k → 10%MONROE COUNTY OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM: $93k → 10%COMMUNITY ACTION ALLEGAN COUNTY: $29k → 10%FIVECAP: $83k → 10%COMMUNITY ACTION ALGER-MARQUETTE: $65k → 11%HUMAN DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION: $20k → 12%BARAGA-HOUGHTON-KEWEENAW COMMUNITY: $34k → 14%EIGHTCAP: $156k → 15%NORTHEAST MICHIGAN CSA: $151k → 16%GOGEBIC ONTONAGON COMMUNITY ACTION: $17k → 17%SAGINAW COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION: $146k → 18%NORTHWEST MICHIGAN CAA: $19k → 10%MONROE COUNTY OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM: $16k → 10%FIVECAP: $23k → 10%COMMUNITY ACTION ALGER-MARQUETTE: $21k → 11%NORTHEAST MICHIGAN CSA: $31k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$25M · 28 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against -21% for the ones you funded once.

28 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2021, 27 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
3

Total granted

$25M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
-21%

Still filing today

75%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementHealthOther

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

  • Wayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc
    4× · 2017–2020 · $7.2M · revenue +213%
  • OL
    OAKLAND LIVINGSTON HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY
    4× · 2017–2020 · $2.1M · revenue +6%
  • CA
    CAPITAL AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $1.4M · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • KC
    Kent County Central Office
    one grant, 2018 · $654k · revenue -21%
  • A
    ACSET
    one grant, 2017 · $522k
  • KC
    KENT COUNTY
    one grant, 2019 · $209k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Area Agency On Aging of Western Michigan Inc

Through internal expertise, external partnerships, and advocacy, the area agency on aging of western michigan provides older adults, adults with disabilities, and their caregivers equitable access to services that promote independence and…

Human Services
2
West Central Community Action

In partnership with state and federal government, our mission is to administer programs designed to help residents in our 10-county region of southwest iowa achieve self-sufficiency.

Human Services
3
Community Action Agency of Southern New Mexico Inc

Caasnm is a 60 year-old new mexico statewide health and social services not for profit with a mission of uplifting low-income families by connecting communities, encouraging family wellness, empowering families, and bridging resources.

Human Services
4
Community Action Commission of Belmont County

Community assistance

Human Services
5
Indiana County Community Action Program

Provide resources for low income clients.

Human Services
6
Community Action Commission of Fayette County

Administers grants and contracts to help the lives of those individuals who fall below the poverty level.

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7
Community Action Board

To partner with the community to eliminate poverty and create social change through advocacy and essential services.

Employment
8
Cayugaseneca Community Action Agency Inc

To respectfully assist people to achieve and sustain self-sufficiency through direct services, education, and community partnerships. the agency administers more than 50 different programs including head start, early head start, homeless…

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9
Southeast Michigan Community Alliance

To provide employment and training services to clients in monroe and wayne counties, exclusive of the city of detroit, through a network of service providers. semca's mission is to provide innovative leadership to create an inclusive…

Human Services
10
Community Action Agency of South Alabama Inc

Administration of federal, state and local awards and grants for the poverty sector of a 7 county area in alabama, providing headstart education, food, shelter, maintenance, and weatherization programs.

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11
Mid-Cumberland Community Action Agency

To help families/individuals toward self-sufficiency by providing comprehensive services in collaboration with local, state, and federal resources.

Human Services
12
Armstrong County Community Action Agency

Provide service and assistance to low income residents of armstrong county.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Michigan Community Action and the most unlike its peers is Kent County Central Office. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 60 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr15%5%20–35yr14%19%35–55yr17%76%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr15%4%20–35yr14%10%35–55yr17%86%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/31
the rest of the field
14%
3,412/25,119

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.

04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 31 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
19/23
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

OAKLAND LIVINGSTON HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY — $2,144,923 · Human ServicesOAKLAND LIVINGSTON HUMAN SERVICE AGENC…EIGHTCAP INC — $815,958 · Human ServicesEIGHTCAP INCCOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY — $778,530 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCYCOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN — $749,172 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOUTH CENTR…NORTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION — $710,035 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTIONSAGINAW COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE INC — $675,718 · Human ServicesSAGINAW COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION COMMIT…NORTHEAST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY SERVICE AGENCY INC — $633,665 · Human ServicesNORTHEAST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY SERVICE A…MONROE COUNTY OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM — $481,311 · Human ServicesMONROE COUNTY OPPORTUNITY PROGRAMFIVECAP INC — $473,901 · Human ServicesFIVECAP INCHuman Development Commission — $431,663 · Human ServicesALLEGAN COUNTY RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE INC — $328,421 · Human Services+4 more — $638,919 · Human Services+4 moreMacomb Community Action — $1,589,414 · OtherMacomb Community ActionCAPITAL AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $1,381,101 · OtherCAPITAL AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES INCGENESEE COUNTY PARKS & RECREATION COMMISSION — $1,344,651 · OtherGENESEE COUNTY PARKS & RECREATION CO…MID MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC — $1,077,625 · OtherMID MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY…COUNTY OF KALAMAZOO — $583,551 · OtherCOUNTY OF KALAMAZOOWashtenaw County Office of Community and Economic Developement — $579,066 · OtherWashtenaw County Office of Community…MUSKEGON-OCEANA COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC — $554,292 · OtherMUSKEGON-OCEANA COMMUNITY ACTION PAR…ACSET — $521,710 · OtherACSETOTTAWA COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR'S OFFICE — $377,042 · Other+3 more — $589,608 · Other+3 moreWayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc — $7,191,506 · Community ImprovementWayne-Metropolitan Community Action…SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY — $720,785 · Community ImprovementSOUTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION…BLUE WATER COMMUNITY ACTION — $379,743 · Community ImprovementKent County Central Office — $654,420 · Health
Human Services$8,862,216Other$8,598,060Community Improvement$8,292,034Health$654,420

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc — $7,191,506 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetOAKLAND LIVINGSTON HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY — $2,144,923 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetCAPITAL AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $1,381,101 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetMID MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC — $1,077,625 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetEIGHTCAP INC — $815,958 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN — $749,172 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetSOUTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY — $720,785 over 4y, 9.5% of budgetNORTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION — $710,035 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetSAGINAW COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE INC — $675,718 over 3y, 13% of budgetNORTHEAST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY SERVICE AGENCY INC — $633,665 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMUSKEGON-OCEANA COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC — $554,292 over 4y, 19% of budgetMONROE COUNTY OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM — $481,311 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetFIVECAP INC — $473,901 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetHuman Development Commission — $431,663 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetBLUE WATER COMMUNITY ACTION — $379,743 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetALLEGAN COUNTY RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE INC — $328,421 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBARAGA-HOUGHTON-KEWEENAW COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC — $247,935 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetALGER MARQUETTE COMMUNITY ACTION BOARD — $196,391 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetGOGEBIC-ONTONAGON COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY — $128,251 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetCHIPPEWA-LUCE-MACKINAC COMMUNITY ACTION HUMAN RESOURCE AUTHORITYINC — $118,927 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDICKINSON IRON COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY — $66,342 over 2y, 1.3% of budget
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.

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.

Feeding America West …Dte Energy FoundationBlue Water Community …Michigan Health Endow…Community Foundation …The Huntington Founda…Meals on Wheels Ameri…Michigan Coalition Ag…Community Economic De…Trinity Health - Mich…Wayne-Metropolitan Co…United Way for Southe…
Feeding America West MichiganMI23.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Feeding America West Michigan · Dte Energy Foundation · Blue Water Community Action · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Huntington Foundation · Meals on Wheels America · Michigan Coalition Against Homelessness · Community Economic Development Association of Michigan · Trinity Health - Michigan · Wayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc · United Way for Southeastern Michigan

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 Community Action Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

    Source object · view filing

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