· Public charity
Michigan Education Association
To protect, advocate, and advance the rights of all education professionals to promote quality public education for all students.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $196,786 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $463,778 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $266,992 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $59k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MICHIGAN CIVIC ACTION FUND | $70,000 |
| PROGRESS MICHIGAN INC | $25,000 |
| MSU APA | $11,900 |
| TROY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION | $11,000 |
| MEA 6-E COORDINATING COUNCIL | $10,800 |
| LAKES AREA COORDINATING COUNCIL | $8,000 |
| KALAMAZOO COUNTY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION | $7,605 |
| GRAND RAPIDS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION | $7,525 |
| FOREST HILLS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION | $6,753 |
| GROSSE POINTE-EA | $6,600 |
| KENTWOOD EDUCATION ASSOCIATION | $5,405 |
| MEA 13-CDE SHORELINE EDUCATIONAL COORDINATING COUNCIL | $5,400 |
| MEA REGION 3 | $5,293 |
| LANSING SCHOOLS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION | $5,250 |
| MEA 11-CDE COORDINATING COUNCIL | $5,143 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 53% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 12% of Michigan Education Association’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in MI; read by stated purpose it is 88% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $161k 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
- MSMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATIVE PROFESSIONAL ASSOC2× · 2023–2024 · $28k · revenue +4%
- 6U6-E UNISERV COORDINATING COUNCIL2× · 2023–2024 · $19k
- KCKALAMAZOO CITY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION2× · 2023–2024 · $18k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- M7MEA 7-IJ COORDINATING COUNCILone grant, 2023 · $8k
- M1MEA 15-B COORDINATING COUNCILone grant, 2023 · $8k
- M9MEA 9-E9-13 COORDINATING COUNCILone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
Consistent with our trade union philosophy and tradition of advocating social and economic justice for all, we also see representing the unemployed, under-employed, and low income people as part of our mission. whether organized or yet to…
To represent and advocate for its member physicians.
Teacher representation
Representation, train and provide education to approximately 700 Canton city educators
Education association
The mission of masa is to develop leadership and unity within its membership and to achieve the continuous improvement of public education in michigan.
Collective bargaining and representation
To do collective bargaining / represent association members
To serve and support elementary and middle level principals in their delivery of quality educational experiences to the students of the state of michigan by providing leadership, legislative advocacy, professional development, and guidance.
Labor union
Collective bargaining
Labor union - member representation
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grosse Pointe- Ea and the most unlike its peers is 6-E Uniserv Coordinating Council. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 20 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
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 MICHIGAN CIVIC ACTION FUND ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATIVE PROFESSIONAL ASSOC ↗
- Who funds Progress Michigan Inc ↗
- Who funds 6-E UNISERV COORDINATING COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO CITY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TROY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Grosse Pointe- EA ↗
- Who funds LANSING SCHOOLS EDUCATION ASSN INC ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Michigan Education Association 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.
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.