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Michigan Public Employees Benefit Trust at a glance

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Michigan Public Employees Benefit Trust

The organization is the successor to a previous organization that was established and operated for the purpose of providing health and welfare benefits to members.

$1.8M
Granted FY2021
20
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$216k
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, FY2020 to 2021.

Employment$1.1MPublic Benefit$800kEducation$604kHuman Services$400kFood & Nutrition$300kCommunity Improvement$200kCrime & Legal$150kHealth$50kOther$0
02FY2021 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $175k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.6M
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MI ASSOCIATION OF UNITED WAYS LABOR PROGRAM$216,494
482FORWARD$166,494
SEIU 517M TOMORROW'S MI TODAY$150,000
AFT MI SUPPORT & COMMUNITY EDUCATION FUND$150,000
MI STATE AFL-CIO LABOR FOUNDATION$150,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS MI$150,000
MI AFSCME COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CORP$150,000
MICHIGAN VOICE$125,000
MI CIVIC EDUCATION FUND$125,000
FIRST STEP$50,000
MI COALITION TO END DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE$50,000
MOTHERING JUSTICE$50,000
MI AFL-CIO WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT INST (PH I)$50,000
HAVEN$50,000
FORGOTTEN HARVEST$37,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–21, $400k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FIRST STEP: $50k → 21%FIRST STEP: $50k → 21%SEIU 517M TOMORROW'S MICHIGAN TODAY: $150k → 16%SEIU 517M TOMORROW'S MI TODAY: $150k → 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.9M · 14 repeat orgs$750k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue -1% since the first grant, against -54% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
5

Total granted

$2.9M
$450k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-1%
-54%

Still filing today

93%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21
Civil RightsFood & NutritionEmploymentEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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

  • COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF MICHIGAN
    2× · 2020–2021 · $300k · revenue +224%
  • 4F
    482 FORWARD
    2× · 2020–2021 · $291k · revenue +124%
  • MC
    MICHIGAN CIVIC EDUCATION FUND
    2× · 2020–2021 · $250k · revenue ×15

Funded once

  • ND
    NEW DETROIT INC
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue -54%
  • SV
    STATE VOICES
    one grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue -64%
  • TC
    TRI COUNTY LABOR AGENCY FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue -56% · 33% of their budget
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
Michigan Center of Accountability for Republicans

Social welfare and issue advocacy

Civil Rights
3
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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4
Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

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.…

Community Improvement
5
Michigan Civic Action Fund

Promoting community welfare and providing community education in michigan by increasing voter participation through nonpartisan research and voter mobilization; increasing voter awareness of public policy issues through nonpartisan…

Civil Rights
6
Michigan State University Administrative Professional Assoc

An organization of professional staff at michigan state university whose main purpose is for collective bargaining. dues are collected from members to provide communication services, pay for bargaining, training, grievance, arbitration…

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7
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

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

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8
Coalition for Secure Retirement-Michigan

The Coalition for Secure Retirement helps provide a unified voice of active and retired school and state employees with state policymakers. The Coalition for Secure Retirement was created to help protect retirement benefits for state and…

Employment
9
Michigan Freedom Fund

To educate the public on issues concerning fiscal responsibility, economic freedom, and the elimination of coercive and compulsory policies; promote these issues; and support legislative changes to embrace these issues.

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10
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
11
Michigan Advocacy Program

To advance the safety, independence, and economic stability of those most affected by poverty, racism, and other structurally oppressive systems by increasing access to justice and working for systemic solutions.

Crime & Legal
12
University of Michigan

To represent and advocate for its member physicians.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Council of Michigan Foundations; the most unlike its peers is School Finance Research Collaborative. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

25 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.

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

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/25
Grantees still filing
12/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AFT MICHIGAN COMMUNITY SUPPORT AND EDUCATION FUND: $300,000 · Civil RightsAFT MICHIGAN COMMUNITY SUP…MICHIGAN CIVIC EDUCATION FUND: $250,000 · Civil RightsMICHIGAN CIVIC EDUCATION F…MICHIGAN VOICES: $125,000 · Civil RightsMICHIGAN VOICESSTATE VOICES: $125,000 · Civil RightsSTATE VOICESMOTHERING JUSTICE: $50,000 · Civil RightsMOTHERING JUSTICEMICHIGAN AFL-CIO FOUNDATION: $300,000 · EmploymentMICHIGAN AFL-CIO FOU…Michigan AFSCME Community Assistance Program Inc: $300,000 · EmploymentMichigan AFSCME Comm…MICHIGAN STATE AFL-CIO WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $50,000 · EmploymentMICHIGAN STATE AFL-C…COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF MICHIGAN: $300,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCH…482 FORWARD: $291,494 · Education482 FORWARD+1 more: $12,500 · EducationMichigan Association of United Ways Inc: $391,494 · PhilanthropyMichigan Ass…+1 more: $12,500 · PhilanthropySEIU 517M TOMORROWS MICHIGAN TODAY: $300,000 · Human ServicesSEIU 517M TO…First Step The Western Wayne County Project Domestic Assault: $100,000 · Human ServicesFirst Step T…NEW DETROIT INC: $150,000 · OtherNEW DETROIT IN…MICHIGAN COALITION TO END DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE: $100,000 · OtherMICHIGAN COALI…TRI COUNTY LABOR AGENCY FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC: $75,000 · OtherTRI COUNTY LAB…HAVEN FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherHAVEN FOUNDATI…AMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOC: $50,000 · OtherAMERICAN PARKI…HAVEN INC: $50,000 · OtherHAVEN INCFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $75,000 · Food & NutritionFORGOTTEN…GREATER LANSING FOOD BANK: $75,000 · Food & NutritionGREATER L…Food Bank of Eastern Michigan: $75,000 · Food & NutritionFood Bank…GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $75,000 · Food & NutritionGLEANERS …
Civil Rights$850,000Employment$650,000Education$603,994Philanthropy$403,994Human Services$400,000Other$475,000Food & Nutrition$300,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMichigan Association of United Ways Inc: $391,494 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetAFT MICHIGAN COMMUNITY SUPPORT AND EDUCATION FUND: $300,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetMICHIGAN AFL-CIO FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 2y, 94% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF MICHIGAN: $300,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetSEIU 517M TOMORROWS MICHIGAN TODAY: $300,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetMichigan AFSCME Community Assistance Program Inc: $300,000 over 2y, 50% of budget482 FORWARD: $291,494 over 2y, 10% of budgetMICHIGAN CIVIC EDUCATION FUND: $250,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetNEW DETROIT INC: $150,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetMICHIGAN VOICES: $125,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetSTATE VOICES: $125,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFirst Step The Western Wayne County Project Domestic Assault: $100,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetMICHIGAN COALITION TO END DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE: $100,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRI COUNTY LABOR AGENCY FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC: $75,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetGREATER LANSING FOOD BANK: $75,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFood Bank of Eastern Michigan: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAVEN FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetAMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMOTHERING JUSTICE: $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHAVEN INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMICHIGAN STATE AFL-CIO WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCOUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS: $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

Community Foundation …United Way for Southe…DTE Energy FoundationMcGregor FundThe Skillman Foundati…Ford PhilanthropyWK Kellogg FoundationThe Ford FoundationThe Fred & Barbara Er…Consumers Energy Foun…Hopewell FundNEO Philanthropy Inc
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI20.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · DTE Energy Foundation · McGregor Fund · The Skillman Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · WK Kellogg Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Hopewell Fund · NEO Philanthropy Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 25 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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    The unnamed billions
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    The regranting layer
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    The endowment market
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    The camps
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