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Michigan Nonprofit Association

Michigan nonprofit assocation serves nonprofits to advance their missions.

$208k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
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 FY2019–2025.

Philanthropy$2.6MCommunity Improvement$609kCivil Rights$375kCrime & Legal$326kHuman Services$322kSocial Science$310kHealth$243kInternational$91kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 1 grants below total $10,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $208,001 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $198,001 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.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION$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.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–22, $328k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NONPROFIT NETWORK: $108k → 13%NONPROFIT NETWORK: $38k → 13%SOUTHWESTERN MICHIGAN URBAN LEAGUE: $45k → 14%NONPROFIT NETWORK: $10k → 13%NONPROFIT NETWORK: $8k → 13%SOUTHWESTERN MICHIGAN URBAN LEAGUE INC: $8k → 14%MICHIGAN 2-1-1: $40k → 16%HISPANIC CENTER OF WESTERN MICHIGAN: $13k → 11%DETROIT NETWORK WAYNE COUNTY DETROIT: $8k → 21%HISPANIC CENTER OF WESTERN MICHIGAN: $8k → 11%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METRO DETROIT: $13k → 21%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METRO DETROIT: $8k → 21%ACCESS: $13k → 21%ACCESS: $8k → 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.

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Where the work is directed

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

About 31% of Michigan Nonprofit 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, 99% of the giving stays in MI; read by stated purpose it is 39% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Michigan Nonprofit Associationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 60% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.2M · 25 repeat orgs$708k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
24

Total granted

$2.2M
$708k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+26%

Still filing today

68%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCivil RightsPublic BenefitCrime & LegalOther

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

  • Nonprofit Enterprise at Work Inc
    2× · 2021–2023 · $420k · revenue +81%
  • NN
    NONPROFIT NETWORK
    4× · 2019–2022 · $163k · revenue +21%
  • SM
    Southwestern Michigan Urban League
    2× · 2019–2022 · $53k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • NN
    NETWORKS NORTHWEST
    one grant, 2019 · $160k
  • UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGANgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $145k · revenue +111%
  • EL
    EARLYWORKS LLC
    one grant, 2021 · $129k

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.

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Mid Michigan Community Action Agency Inc

Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.

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2
Community Education Commission

CEC works with diverse stakeholders across Detroit to develop critical resources and system-level solutions that address common challenges faced by Detroit families in accessing quality education.

Education
3
Connect Detroit

To strategically solve problems through collaboratives with City of Detroit Departments, nonprofit organizations and local grant makers in order to secure the maximum federal, state, and national foundation dollars for the city Detroit.

Community Improvement
4
Michigan Credit Union Foundation

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

Public Benefit
5
Action for Liberation

Michigan Liberation is dedicated to the leadership development of community members and creation of effective campaigns to advance racial, gender and economic justice in Michigan

Civil Rights
6
Detroit Economic Growth Corporation

Promotion of activities to spur economic growth and revitalization in the city of detroit

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7
African Resource Center of West Michigan

The African Resource Center informs connects and equips African immigrants in West Michigan with people and resources to foster a flourishing community in which recent African immigrants can prosper emotionally economically and socially.

Human Services
8
Business Leaders for Michigan

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

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9
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

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10
Clean Fuels Michigan

To accelerate the transition to clean transportation in michigan. we advocate for the suite of alternative fuels including biofuels, hydrogen, propane, natural gas, and electric vehicles.

Community Improvement
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Impact100 Detroit Impact100 Metro Detroit

Impact100 Metro Detroit is working to be a leader in collective philanthropy and to build a strong presence in metro Detroit which includes specifically the counties of Macomb, Oakland and Wayne. The members are a group of women who want…

Human Services
12
Michigan Enviromental Council

Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fremont Area Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Our Own Wall Street. 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 28 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr14%17%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr15%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr13%48%35–55yr15%19%55yr+

The field is 23% 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 — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/61
the rest of the field
15%
4,594/30,569

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.

05the grantee network

47 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. 47 of the 61 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/47
Grantees still filing
33/47
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN — $995,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGANCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER FLINT — $460,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER FLINTHEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY — $393,500 · PhilanthropyHEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAYCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MARQUETTE COUNTY — $179,100 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MARQUETTE COUNTYUNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN — $145,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGANMIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $115,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHEAST MICHIGAN — $100,000 · PhilanthropyBERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $95,000 · Philanthropy+5 more — $175,875 · Philanthropy+5 moreDATA DRIVEN DETROIT — $310,250 · OtherDATA DRIVEN DETROITNETWORKS NORTHWEST — $160,000 · OtherNETWORKS NORTHWESTCapital Area United Way Inc — $130,000 · OtherCapital Area United Wa…EARLYWORKS LLC — $128,900 · OtherEARLYWORKS LLC+21 more — $287,125 · Other+21 moreNonprofit Enterprise at Work Inc — $419,970 · Community ImprovementNonprofit Ente…WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY PARK IN THE CITY OF DETROIT — $75,000 · Community ImprovementWAYNE STATE UN…+10 more — $145,475 · Community Improvement+10 moreNONPROFIT NETWORK — $163,000 · Human ServicesSouthwestern Michigan Urban League — $53,000 · Human ServicesMichigan 2-1-1 Inc — $40,000 · Human ServicesHISPANIC CENTER OF WESTERN MICHIGAN INC — $21,250 · Human ServicesTHE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT INC — $21,250 · Human ServicesARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S — $21,250 · Human Services+1 more — $8,000 · Human ServicesMICHIGAN COMMUNITY RESOURCES — $326,300 · Crime & LegalASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN VOTE - MICHIGAN — $37,250 · Civil RightsLGBT Detroit — $21,250 · Civil RightsCommunities First Inc — $21,250 · Housing & Shelter
Philanthropy$2,658,475Other$1,016,275Community Improvement$640,445Human Services$327,750Crime & Legal$326,300Civil Rights$58,500Housing & Shelter$21,250

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 budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN — $995,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER FLINT — $460,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetNonprofit Enterprise at Work Inc — $419,970 over 2y, 10% of budgetHEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY — $393,500 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetMICHIGAN COMMUNITY RESOURCES — $326,300 over 2y, 14% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MARQUETTE COUNTY — $179,100 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetNONPROFIT NETWORK — $163,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN — $145,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCapital Area United Way Inc — $130,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetMIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $115,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHEAST MICHIGAN — $100,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetBERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $95,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY PARK IN THE CITY OF DETROIT — $75,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBATTLE CREEK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $70,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFremont Area Community Foundation — $60,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSouthwestern Michigan Urban League — $53,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetMichigan 2-1-1 Inc — $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN VOTE - MICHIGAN — $37,250 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetURBAN CORE COLLECTIVE — $21,250 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMICHIGAN ORGANIZING PROJECT — $21,250 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHISPANIC CENTER OF WESTERN MICHIGAN INC — $21,250 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetDISABILITY NETWORK EASTERN MICHIGAN — $21,250 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOur Own Wall Street — $21,250 over 2y, 22% of budgetTHE PROACTIVE PROJECT INC — $21,250 over 2y, 10% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT INC — $21,250 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetDETROIT HISPANIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $21,250 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCommunities First Inc — $21,250 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGLOBAL DETROIT — $21,250 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLGBT Detroit — $21,250 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S — $21,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT CHANGE INITIATIVE — $21,250 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $14,625 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MUSKEGON COUNTY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMichigan Community Action Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMIIGWECH INC — $8,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetA Glimpse of Africa — $8,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetFlint Innovative Solutions — $8,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetAssociation Of Chinese Americans Inc — $8,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICAN ARAB HERITAGE COUNCIL — $8,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetEmgage Foundation Inc — $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDISABILITY NETWORK WAYNE COUNTY DETROIT — $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN CITIZENS FOR JUSTICE INC — $8,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetProgress Michigan Education Inc — $6,625 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCONGRESS OF COMMUNITIES — $5,225 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFood Bank Council of Michigan Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Community Foundation …Michigan VoicesDte Energy FoundationConsumers Energy Foun…Michigan Civic Educat…The Kresge FoundationWK Kellogg FoundationKalamazoo Community F…United Way for Southe…Michigan Health Endow…Charles Stewart Mott …State Voices
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI38.5× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Michigan Voices · Dte Energy Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Michigan Civic Education Fund · The Kresge Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Kalamazoo Community Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · State Voices

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 Nonprofit 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 61 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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