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· Public charity

Michigan Education Association

To protect, advocate, and advance the rights of all education professionals to promote quality public education for all students.

$464k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$70k
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, FY2022 to 2024.

Public Benefit$95kEducation$61kEmployment$60kCommunity Improvement$23kYouth Development$16kSocial Science$8kEnvironment$5k
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 16 grants below total $196,786, the rows itemized in this filing. The $463,778 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $266,992 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $68k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $59k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
$7,525
Median grant
2
States reached
$107M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 53% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%FOREST HILLS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $7k → 16%15-A COORDINATING COUNCIL: $5k → 7%MEA 7-IJ COORDINATING COUNCIL: $8k → 8%MEA REGION 3: $5k → 10%MEA 6-E COORDINATING COUNCIL: $11k → 10%KENTWOOD EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $5k → 11%KALAMAZOO COUNTY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $10k → 12%MEA 15-B COORDINATING COUNCIL: $8k → 13%MEA 13-CDE SHORELINE EDUCATIONAL COORDINATING COUNCIL: $5k → 15%PROGRESS MICHIGAN INC: $25k → 16%MEA 11-CDE COORDINATING COUNCIL: $5k → 18%MEA REGION 2: $5k → 21%LAKES AREA COORDINATING COUNCIL: $8k → 8%MEA 6-E COORDINATING COUNCIL: $8k → 10%GRAND RAPIDS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $8k → 11%KALAMAZOO COUNTY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $8k → 12%MEA 13-CDE SHORELINE EDUCATIONAL COORDINATING COUNCIL: $5k → 15%LANSING SCHOOLS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $5k → 16%GROSSE POINTE-EA: $7k → 21%MICHIGAN CIVIC ACTION FUND: $70k → 8%MEA 9-E9-13 COORDINATING COUNCIL: $5k → 15%MSU APA: $16k → 16%TROY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $11k → 8%MEA 13-CDE SHORELINE EDUCATIONAL COORDINATING COUNCIL: $5k → 15%MSU APA: $12k → 16%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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 12% of Michigan Education Association’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in MI; by stated purpose, 88%.

Michigan Education Associationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

30%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$81k · 4 repeat orgs$187k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
4

Total granted

$81k
$26k

Still filing today

75%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $161k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Civil RightsPublic BenefitEmploymentOther
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

  • MS
    MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATIVE PROFESSIONAL ASSOC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $28k · revenue +4%
  • 6U
    6-E UNISERV COORDINATING COUNCIL
    2× · 2023–2024 · $19k
  • KC
    KALAMAZOO CITY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $18k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • M7
    MEA 7-IJ COORDINATING COUNCIL
    one grant, 2023 · $8k
  • M1
    MEA 15-B COORDINATING COUNCIL
    one grant, 2023 · $8k
  • M9
    MEA 9-E9-13 COORDINATING COUNCIL
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
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
Michigan State Afl-Cio

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…

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2
University of Michigan

To represent and advocate for its member physicians.

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3
Columbus Education Association

Teacher representation

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4
Canton Professional Educators Association

Representation, train and provide education to approximately 700 Canton city educators

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5
Aurora Education Association

Education association

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6
Michigan Assoc of School Administrators

The mission of masa is to develop leadership and unity within its membership and to achieve the continuous improvement of public education in michigan.

Education
7
Laborers International Union of State of Mi

Collective bargaining and representation

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8
Muskegon City Teachers Education Association

To do collective bargaining / represent association members

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9
Michigan Elementary and Middle School Principals Association Inc

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.

Education
10
East Williston Teachers Association

Labor union

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11
Mankato Teachers' Association

Collective bargaining

Employment
12
Eastern Michigan University Federation of Teachers Aft Loc 9102

Labor union - member representation

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grosse Pointe- Ea; 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.
05the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATIVE PROFESSIONAL ASSOC: $27,800 · OtherMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATIVE PROFESSIONAL ASSOCKALAMAZOO CITY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $18,005 · OtherKALAMAZOO CITY EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONMEA 13-CDE SHORELINE EDUCATIONAL COORDINATING COUNCIL: $16,200 · OtherMEA 13-CDE SHORELINE EDUCATIONAL COORDINATING COUNCILTROY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $11,000 · OtherTROY EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONMEA 7-IJ COORDINATING COUNCIL: $8,000 · OtherLAKES AREA COORDINATING COUNCIL: $8,000 · OtherGRAND RAPIDS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $7,525 · OtherMEA 15-B COORDINATING COUNCIL: $7,500 · OtherFOREST HILLS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $6,753 · OtherGrosse Pointe- EA: $6,600 · OtherKENTWOOD EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $5,405 · OtherMEA 9-E9-13 COORDINATING COUNCIL: $5,400 · OtherMEA REGION 3: $5,293 · OtherLANSING SCHOOLS EDUCATION ASSN INC: $5,250 · Other15-A COORDINATING COUNCIL: $5,200 · OtherMEA 11-CDE COORDINATING COUNCIL: $5,143 · Other+1 more: $5,112 · OtherMICHIGAN CIVIC ACTION FUND: $70,000 · Civil RightsMICHIGAN CIVIC ACTION FUNDProgress Michigan Inc: $25,000 · Public BenefitProgress M…6-E UNISERV COORDINATING COUNCIL: $18,800 · Employment
Other$154,186Civil Rights$70,000Public Benefit$25,000Employment$18,800

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMICHIGAN CIVIC ACTION FUND: $70,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATIVE PROFESSIONAL ASSOC: $27,800 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetProgress Michigan Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budget6-E UNISERV COORDINATING COUNCIL: $18,800 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetKALAMAZOO CITY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $18,005 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $7,525 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetGrosse Pointe- EA: $6,600 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetLANSING SCHOOLS EDUCATION ASSN INC: $5,250 over 1y, 8.8% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Michigan Education Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michigan Education Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 20 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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