How much did MICHIGAN VOICES grant in FY2024?

Civil Rights$1.9MCommunity Improvement$1.2MPhilanthropy$905kHuman Services$746kHealth$648kPublic Benefit$356kEducation$191kReligion$175kEmployment$150kOther$1.7M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2021

election protectionredistricting election

2022

faithelection protectionredistricting electiondisabilityjusticeyoungvoters

2023

policiespromotingracialbuildinghumanisticnon-profitmembers

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k2 grants · $16k
$10k–50k23 grants · $558k
$50k–250k19 grants · $1.9M
$250k+6 grants · $1.9M

$50,140

Median grant

States reached

$6.2M

Total assets

Largest grants

APIA VOTE MI$501,700
TIDES CENTER$303,000
DETROIT CHANGE INITIATIVE$300,420
NORTH FLINT NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION COUNCIL$276,600
ACCESS - ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SERVICES$262,000
MICHIGAN UNITED$252,700
NON-PROFIT ENTERPRISE AT WORK INC$178,133
THE PROACTIVE PROJECT$175,300
GLPA-LEAD EDUCATION FUND$150,000
DETROIT HISPANIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$143,622
SOCIETY FOR HUMANISTIC JUDAISM$130,333
EMGAGE FOUNDATION INC$117,000
EQUALITY MICHIGAN$105,000
WARRIORS ON WHEELS OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT$104,000
A PHILLIP RANDOLPH DETROIT DOWNRIVER CHAPTER$99,406

02The need

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:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $554k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$5.8M · 33 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +117% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.8M

$782k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+117%

+13%

Still filing today

85%

58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Civil RightsCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesPublic BenefitPhilanthropyEducationOther

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

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APIA VOTE MI
4× · 2021–2024 · $769k · revenue +1114%
MU
MICHIGAN UNITED
2× · 2021–2024 · $602k · revenue +455%
DC
DETROIT CHANGE INSTITUTE
4× · 2021–2024 · $472k · revenue +292% · 38% of their budget

Funded once

PLANNED PARENTHOOD
one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +13%
DG
DOUGHBOYS GIVE BACK
one grant, 2022 · $53k
BM
BETTER MEN OUTREACH
one grant, 2022 · $43k

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.

The Michigan Center for Civic Education

To promote and support the development of engaged, responsible citizens. The Michigan Center for Civic Education (MCCE) strengthens constitutional democracy through authentic civic education and professional learning. MCCE advances the…

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Michigan Voices

The organization seeks to build civic engagement capacity in progressive nonprofit groups .

Civil Rights

Equality Michigan

To achieve full equality and respect for all michigan residents regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression

Civil Rights

Michigan Center of Accountability for Republicans

Social welfare and issue advocacy

Civil Rights

Equality Michigan Action Network

To provide policy expertise, political acumen, and broad-based relationships across the political spectrum to propel the mission, which is to achieve full equality and respect for all michigan residents, regardless of sexual orientation,…

Civil Rights

Michigan Peoples Campaign

Promoting civic engagement and leadership development amongst low-income families for more equitable social policy.

Civil Rights

Michigan Roundtable for Just Communities

Michigan roundtable for just communities is a racial and social justice organization whose purpose is eradicate racism, discrimination, and systemic inequities by cultivating multigenerational just and beloved communities.

Religion

Promote the Vote 2022

A coalition of organizations and individuals committed to ensuring michigan has a voting system that works for all of us.

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Michigan Deserves Better

Social welfare and issue advocacy

Civil Rights

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

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

Michigan Nonprofit Association

The mission of mna is to serve nonprofits to advance their missions

Unclassified

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Michigan Organization On Adolescent and the most unlike its peers is Tides Center. 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 18 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%2/70

the rest of the field

12%

4,597/36,856

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

54 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

52/54

Grantees still filing

42/54

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Civil Rights$1,924,367Other$2,175,913Community Improvement$1,209,803Philanthropy$905,202Human Services$745,865Health$648,000Public Benefit$356,325

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.

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.

State VoicesDC39.4× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: State Voices · Michigan Civic Education Fund · Michigan Nonprofit Association · Tides Foundation · Promote the Vote Fund Inc · Community Foundation for Southeast · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Bvm Capacity Building Institute Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc

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 organisation MICHIGAN VOICES 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

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1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MUUSJN.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 462871970 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on MUUSJN, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 75% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Michigan Voices?

Find your warmest path to Michigan Voices through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

MICHIGAN VOICES

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

54 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Michigan Voices?

More from the funding graph

MICHIGAN VOICES

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

54 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Michigan Voices?

More from the funding graph