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Michigan Community Resources

We advance the missions of michigan nonprofit organizations that serve low income individuals and communitiesthrough pro bono and low cost legal and other professional services, organizational development, and trusted guidance.

$67k
Granted FY2018
3
Itemized grants FY2018
3
Organizations funded FY2018
100%
First-time grantees FY2018
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Itemized, FY2018
$60k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2018
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2018
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 5
FY2017 to FY2018
States reached, FY2018
1
Total assets, FY2018
$2.7M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2018, 100% of the organizations Michigan Community Resources funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20183$60k100%
FY20175$36kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Community Improvement$46kHousing & Shelter$26kArts & Culture$12kFood & Nutrition$12k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Eden Gardens Community Association$20,000134%
Nortown Community Development Corporation$20,0001n/a
Chandler Park Neighborhood Association$20,0001n/a
Detroit Abloom$11,9901n/a
Power House Productions$6,00013%
Neighbors Building Brightmoor$6,00015%
Morningside$6,0001n/a
Popps Packing$6,0001n/a

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.

The Kresge FoundationMI13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Kresge Foundation · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Michigan Community Resources

How much does Michigan Community Resources give?
Michigan Community Resources reported 3 itemized grants totaling $60,000, out of $67,091 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2018 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 5 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.
What does Michigan Community Resources fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2018, its largest causes are Community Improvement (48%), Housing & Shelter (27%), Arts & Culture (13%).
Who are Michigan Community Resources's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2018: Eden Gardens Community Association ($20k), Nortown Community Development Corporation ($20k), Chandler Park Neighborhood Association ($20k).
Does Michigan Community Resources fund new organizations?
In FY2018, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Michigan Community Resources?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Kresge Foundation, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Michigan Community Resources based?
Michigan Community Resources is based in MI.

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 8 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 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 FY2018, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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