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Michigan Credit Union Foundation

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

$111k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Community Improvement$434kEducation$300kEmployment$56kHuman Services$55kPhilanthropy$25kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kArts & Culture$19kMembership Benefit$18kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 5 grants below total $85,241 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $111,165 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $25,924 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.

$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
METRO WEST CHAPTER OF CREDIT UNIONS$25,241
UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY$20,000
MEMBERS FIRST CREDIT UNION$15,000
ELGA CREDIT UNION$15,000
PUBLIC SERVICE CREDIT UNION$10,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 73% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CREDIT UNION NETWORK FOR FINANCIAL LITERACY: $21k → 6%RICHARD MYLES JOHNSON FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%MICHIGAN COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $20k → 8%MEMBERS FIRST CREDIT UNION: $10k → 9%4FRONT CREDIT UNION: $14k → 10%MICHIGAN COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $32k → 10%SAGELINK CREDIT UNION: $8k → 12%TRUE COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION: $20k → 13%FILER CREDIT UNION: $6k → 13%OMNI COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION: $15k → 14%MI TECH EMPLOYEES FCU: $10k → 14%SB COMMUNITY FCU: $8k → 15%COMMUNITY FIRST FEDERAL CREDIT UNION: $8k → 15%HONOR CREDIT UNION: $10k → 15%ALPENA ALCONA AREA CU: $19k → 16%CASE CU: $7k → 16%ELGA CREDIT UNION: $15k → 16%FRANKENMUTH CREDIT UNION: $11k → 18%NORTHLAND AREA FCU: $10k → 18%METRO WEST CHAPTER OF CREDIT UNIONS: $25k → 21%UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY: $20k → 4%LOUISIANA CREDIT UNION LEAGUE: $6k → 15%RMJ FOUNDATION: $11k → 14%MICHIGAN COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $10k → 8%4FRONT CREDIT UNION: $8k → 10%MICHIGAN COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $24k → 10%CP FEDERAL CU: $19k → 13%BLUE OX CU: $6k → 14%BEST FINANCIAL CREDIT UNION: $7k → 15%ALPENA ALCONA AREA CU: $10k → 16%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $7k → 16%ELGA CREDIT UNION: $10k → 16%RMJ FOUNDATION: $8k → 14%MICHIGAN COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $9k → 10%SO MI CHAPTER OF CUS: $9k → 13%CASE CU: $6k → 16%ELGA CREDIT UNION: $7k → 16%TEAM ONE CREDIT UNION: $12k → 18%PUBLIC SERVICE CREDIT UNION: $10k → 21%RMJ FOUNDATION: $8k → 14%MICHIGAN SCHOOLS & GOVERNMENT CU: $10k → 10%TRUE COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION: $7k → 13%TEAM ONE CREDIT UNION: $10k → 18%PUBLIC SERVICE CREDIT UNION: $8k → 21%JACKSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $12k → 13%ADVANTAGE ONE CREDIT UNION: $14k → 21%CATHOLIC VANTAGE FINANCIAL CREDIT UNION: $13k → 21%DIVERSIFIED MEMBERS CU: $40k → 21%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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$613k · 15 repeat orgs$315k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
31

Total granted

$613k
$295k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+48%

Still filing today

87%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementEducationPhilanthropyInternationalOther

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

  • MC
    MICHIGAN COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION
    5× · 2017–2023 · $94k · revenue +13%
  • RM
    RICHARD MYLES JOHNSON FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $47k · revenue +34%
  • TC
    TRUE COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION
    3× · 2018–2022 · $46k · revenue +123%

Funded once

  • DM
    DIVERSIFIED MEMBERS CREDIT UNIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $40k · revenue +73%
  • CU
    CREDIT UNION NETWORK FOR FINANCIAL LITERACY
    one grant, 2019 · $21k
  • OC
    OMNI COMMUNITY CREDIT UNIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +84%

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
Credit Union of America

Provide lending, savings, and financial services for mutual purpose, including consumer loans, real estate loans, credit cards, savings and certificate accounts, investment options, and multiple methods for member access to their financial…

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2
Superior Credit Union Inc

We promise to simplify your life. we promise to work in your best interest. we promise to help you build your financial future. we promise to provide products and services relevant to your needs. we promise to protect your privacy.

Arts & Culture
3
Us Employees Credit Union

Illinois state chartered credit union operated for the mutual benefit of its members. The Credit Union makes loans to members and pays dividends to members with share deposits at a competitive rate of interest.

Public Benefit
4
Mcu Financial Services Credit Union

To provide secure, convenient and quality financial services, in an economically sound manner, to all present and potential members.

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5
Credit Unions in the State of California Sierra Central Credit Union

As your financial institution, we pledge to serve you and our community faithfully. we will be friendly, helpful, and professional, and we will provide great products and competitive rates.

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6
County-City Credit Union

To help our members meet financial challenges in a responsive, convenient, friendly and caring manner; and to help them find financial security with competitive products and services.

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7
Chicago Municipal Employee's Credit Union

To give members the ability to control their financial destiny by providing members with the means to satisfy their needs for financial services in a comfortable family-like environment. in doing so, the credit union strives to maintain…

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8
Community Star Credit Union

To provide lending,savings, and other financial services to its qualifying members at terms generally better than available in the marketplace and with a service-based emphasis that recognizes the members status as owners.

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9
Oucu Financial Credit Union Fka Ohio University Credit Union

Provide financial services to its members.

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10
Sound Credit Union

A member owned cooperative providing financial services, including loans and share deposits to its members.

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11
Community Financial Credit Union

Community financial credit union is a state chartered, not-for-profit, full-service financial institution owned and governed by its membership. at community financial, we are committed to our members and our communities,for over 70 years.…

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12
Genfed Financial Credit Union Inc

To provide lending, savings, and other financial services to its members at terms generally better than available in the marketplace and with a service-based emphasis that recognizes the members' status as owners.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Filer Credit Union and the most unlike its peers is 4front Foundation Inc. 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 70 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%0%5–10yr18%0%10–20yr16%0%20–35yr14%6%35–55yr17%91%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%0%5–10yr18%0%10–20yr16%0%20–35yr14%19%35–55yr17%80%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/48
the rest of the field
14%
3,875/27,228

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

37 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. 37 of the 48 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/37
Grantees still filing
30/37
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE LLC — $113,016 · OtherPENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE LLCMICHIGAN COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION — $94,000 · OtherMICHIGAN COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATIONMICHIGAN CREDIT UNION LEAGUE — $78,556 · OtherMICHIGAN CREDIT UNION LEAGUETRUE COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION — $46,000 · OtherTRUE COMMUNITY CREDIT UNIONDIVERSIFIED MEMBERS CREDIT UNION — $40,000 · OtherELGA CREDIT UNION — $31,811 · OtherCREDIT UNIONS CHARTERED IN THE STATE OF MICHIGAN — $30,000 · OtherALPENA ALCONA AREA CREDIT UNION — $28,500 · Other+34 more — $350,027 · Other+34 moreRICHARD MYLES JOHNSON FOUNDATION — $46,500 · EducationCREDIT UNION NATIONAL ASSOCIATION INC — $35,364 · Community Improvement4front Foundation Inc — $8,000 · Community ImprovementUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC — $20,000 · PhilanthropyJackson Community Foundation — $12,000 · PhilanthropyWORLDWIDE FOUNDATION FOR CREDIT UNIONS INC — $6,000 · International
Other$811,910Education$46,500Community Improvement$43,364Philanthropy$32,000International$6,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMICHIGAN COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION — $94,000 over 5y, 22% of budgetMICHIGAN CREDIT UNION LEAGUE — $78,556 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetRICHARD MYLES JOHNSON FOUNDATION — $46,500 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetTRUE COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION — $46,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDIVERSIFIED MEMBERS CREDIT UNION — $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCREDIT UNION NATIONAL ASSOCIATION INC — $35,364 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetELGA CREDIT UNION — $31,811 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCREDIT UNIONS CHARTERED IN THE STATE OF MICHIGAN — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALPENA ALCONA AREA CREDIT UNION — $28,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION — $24,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTEAM ONE CREDIT UNION — $21,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPUBLIC SERVICE CREDIT UNION — $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLouisiana Credit Union League — $16,750 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetOMNI COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget4FRONT CREDIT UNION — $14,475 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCREDIT UNIONS CHARTERED IN THE STATE OF MICHIGAN — $14,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCredit Unions Chartered in the State of MI CASE Credit Union — $12,935 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJackson Community Foundation — $12,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCREDIT UNIONS CHARTERED IN THE STATE OF MICHIGAN FRANKENMUTH CREDIT UNION — $11,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMICHIGAN SCHOOLS AND GOVERNMENT CREDIT UNION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHONOR CREDIT UNION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREESTAR FINANCIAL CREDIT UNION — $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEOPLE DRIVEN CREDIT UNION — $8,725 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAGELINK CREDIT UNION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEST FINANCIAL CREDIT UNION — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFILER CREDIT UNION — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLDWIDE FOUNDATION FOR CREDIT UNIONS INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIGNITE CREDIT UNION — $5,875 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLouisiana Central Credit Union — $5,700 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSOO CO-OP CREDIT UNION — $5,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCREDIT UNIONS CHARTERED IN THE STATE OF MICHIGAN — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCalcite Credit Union — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAFCU — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE HURON CREDIT UNION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile Foundation
Amazonsmile FoundationWA0.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Credit Union Foundation 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
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • United Way of Northern New Jersey Inc — 3% of 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–24

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 48 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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