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Michigan Voices

The organization seeks to build civic engagment capacity in progressive nonprofit groups that are led by and engage black, indigenous and people of color.

$4.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
50
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$502k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Public Benefit$5.9MCivil Rights$1.0MHealth$505kReligion$205kHuman Services$149kCommunity Improvement$96kEducation$60kCrime & Legal$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 50 grants below total $4,329,416, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,749,505 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $420,089 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 $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $558k
  • $50k–250k19 grants · $1.9M
  • $250k+6 grants · $1.9M
$50,140
Median grant
5
States reached
$6.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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:

Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $554k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ONE LOVE GLOBAL: $15k → 16%MOTHERS OF HOPE: $12k → 12%ONE LOVE GLOBAL: $27k → 16%ACCESS - ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SERVICES: $262k → 21%WARRIORS ON WHEELS OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $104k → 21%ACCESS: $35k → 21%ACCESS: $5k → 21%BETTER MEN OUTREACH: $43k → 21%WARRIORS ON WHEELS: $34k → 21%ALICIA'S HELPING HAND: $17k → 21%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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.0M · 31 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
12

Total granted

$5.0M
$850k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+11%

Still filing today

87%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $941k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesPublic BenefitEducationArts & CultureOther
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

  • AA
    ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN VOTE - MICHIGAN
    4× · 2021–2024 · $769k · revenue +388%
  • MO
    MICHIGAN ORGANIZING PROJECT
    2× · 2021–2024 · $602k · revenue +214%
  • DETROIT HISPANIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $241k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGANgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +34%
  • MJ
    MOHTERING JUSTICE
    one grant, 2022 · $84k
  • DG
    DOUGHBOYS GIVE BACK
    one grant, 2022 · $53k
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
Elevated Voices Inc

Voter education around policy

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2
Michigan Voices

The organization seeks to build civic engagment capacity in progressive nonprofit groups that are led by and engage black, indigenous and people of color.

Civil Rights
3
Promote the Vote 2022

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

—
4
Michigan Center of Accountability for Republicans

Social welfare and issue advocacy

Civil Rights
5
We the People Mi

To organize, train, and educate communities throughout Michigan to promote racial and economic justice; facilitate relationships between community leaders from rural, suburban, and urban communities across Michigan and strengthen…

Education
6
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
7
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 michgan residents, regardless of sexual orientation,…

Civil Rights
8
Progress Michigan Education Inc

Progress Michigan Education is a non-partisan, nonprofit 501(c)3 organization that promotes solutions for michigan through independent research, public education and the use of new media and internet outreach campaigns.

Public Benefit
9
We the People Action Fund

To promote racial and economic justice throughout Michigan by training and organizing community leaders across the state; Engaging community members in the development of thoughtful public policy solutions through nonpartisan educational…

Civil Rights
10
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
11
Good Jobs Now Inc

To build the political and economic power of low and moderate-income detroiters of color through neighborhood-driven community organizing and civic engagement in order to change public policy and communities for the better.

—
12
For Michigan

To empower students in Michigan's higher education institutions to take leadership in their community and increase their participation in the democratic process. We strengthen students' voices in developing and advocating for legislation…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote - Michigan; the most unlike its peers is Thou Art Embrace the Rock. 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

54 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 54 of the 69 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.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/54
Grantees still filing
27/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN VOTE - MICHIGAN: $768,676 · Civil RightsASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER …MICHIGAN UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST SOCIAL JUSTICE NETWORK: $458,670 · Civil RightsMICHIGAN UNITARIAN UNIVERSA…A PHILIP RANDOLPH INSTITUTE DETROIT DOWNRIVER: $186,406 · Civil RightsA PHILIP RANDOLPH INSTITUTE…CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND: $145,100 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITI…LGBT Detroit: $135,515 · Civil RightsLGBT DetroitEQUALITY MICHIGAN: $120,000 · Civil RightsEQUALITY MICHIGAN+5 more: $135,000 · Civil Rights+5 moreTHE PROACTIVE PROJECT INC: $297,050 · OtherTHE PROACTIVE PROJECT INCNORTH FLINT NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION COUNCIL INC: $294,100 · OtherNORTH FLINT NEIGHBORHOOD ACTIO…MICHIGAN DISABILITY RIGHTS COALITION: $112,050 · OtherMOHTERING JUSTICE: $83,750 · OtherINTERNATIONAL FULLER WOMAN NETWORK: $81,500 · OtherWISDOM INSTITUTE: $128,082 · OtherWISDOM INSTITUTESOCIETY FOR HUMANISTIC JUDAISM: $155,333 · OtherSOCIETY FOR HUMANISTIC JUDAISMGLPA-LEAD EDUCATION FUND: $150,000 · OtherGLPA-LEAD EDUCATION FUNDSECOND'S NEW VISION AND OUTREACH MINISTRIES: $92,475 · OtherMICHIGAN LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $100,400 · Other+23 more: $656,173 · Other+23 moreDETROIT CHANGE INITIATIVE: $472,178 · Community ImprovementDETROIT CHANGE IN…DETROIT HISPANIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $241,122 · Community ImprovementDETROIT HISPANIC …Nonprofit Enterprise at Work Inc: $178,133 · Community ImprovementNonprofit Enterpr…Our Own Wall Street: $142,620 · Community ImprovementOur Own Wall Stre…MICHIGAN FAITH IN ACTION: $102,500 · Community ImprovementMICHIGAN FAITH IN…+3 more: $73,250 · Community Improvement+3 moreMICHIGAN ORGANIZING PROJECT: $602,202 · PhilanthropyMICHIGAN ORG…TIDES FOUNDATION: $303,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDA…ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S: $301,500 · Human ServicesARAB COMMU…WARRIORS ON WHEELS OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $160,250 · Human ServicesWARRIORS O…TIDES CENTER: $109,554 · Human ServicesTIDES CENT…MICHIGAN ORGANIZATION ON ADOLESCENT SEXUAL HEALTH: $60,000 · Human ServicesMICHIGAN O…The Better Men Outreach Program: $43,211 · Human ServicesThe Better…ONE LOVE GLOBAL: $41,982 · Human ServicesONE LOVE G…+2 more: $29,368 · Human ServicesPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN: $500,000 · HealthPLANNED P…IDENTIFY YOUR DREAM CORPORATION: $148,000 · HealthIDENTIFY …Emgage Foundation Inc: $161,025 · Public BenefitCOUNT MI VOTE EDUCATION FUND: $70,500 · Public BenefitThou Art Embrace The Rock: $69,100 · Public BenefitSAFE & JUST MICHIGAN: $30,000 · Public BenefitCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $25,700 · Public Benefit
Civil Rights$1,949,367Other$2,150,913Community Improvement$1,209,803Philanthropy$905,202Human Services$745,865Health$648,000Public Benefit$356,325

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN VOTE - MICHIGAN: $768,676 over 4y, 20% of budgetMICHIGAN ORGANIZING PROJECT: $602,202 over 2y, 13% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN: $500,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetDETROIT CHANGE INITIATIVE: $472,178 over 4y, 38% of budgetMICHIGAN UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST SOCIAL JUSTICE NETWORK: $458,670 over 3y, 75% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $303,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S: $301,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE PROACTIVE PROJECT INC: $297,050 over 2y, 43% of budgetDETROIT HISPANIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $241,122 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetA PHILIP RANDOLPH INSTITUTE DETROIT DOWNRIVER: $186,406 over 4y, 48% of budgetNonprofit Enterprise at Work Inc: $178,133 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetEmgage Foundation Inc: $161,025 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetWARRIORS ON WHEELS OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $160,250 over 3y, 18% of budgetSOCIETY FOR HUMANISTIC JUDAISM: $155,333 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetGLPA-LEAD EDUCATION FUND: $150,000 over 1y, 60% of budgetIDENTIFY YOUR DREAM CORPORATION: $148,000 over 2y, 39% of budgetCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND: $145,100 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetOur Own Wall Street: $142,620 over 4y, 50% of budgetLGBT Detroit: $135,515 over 4y, 9.1% of budgetWISDOM INSTITUTE: $128,082 over 4y, 24% of budgetEQUALITY MICHIGAN: $120,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetMICHIGAN DISABILITY RIGHTS COALITION: $112,050 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $109,554 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMICHIGAN FAITH IN ACTION: $102,500 over 2y, 15% of budgetMICHIGAN LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $100,400 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetSECOND'S NEW VISION AND OUTREACH MINISTRIES: $92,475 over 4y, 73% of budgetCOUNT MI VOTE EDUCATION FUND: $70,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budget482 FORWARD: $63,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetMICHIGAN ORGANIZATION ON ADOLESCENT SEXUAL HEALTH: $60,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetPIRG NEW VOTERS PROJECT INC: $54,500 over 3y, 85% of budgetAMERICAN ARAB HERITAGE COUNCIL: $45,250 over 1y, 15% of budgetFair Elections Center: $45,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLABOR COUNCIL FOR LATIN AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT: $42,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetONE LOVE GLOBAL: $41,982 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KALAMAZOO MI: $32,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMOSES (METROPOLITAN ORGANIZING STRATEGY ENABLING STRENGTH): $31,250 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetMIIGWECH INC: $30,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetSAFE & JUST MICHIGAN: $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $25,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetS&D PJ HOUSING: $24,082 over 1y, 19% of budgetLATIN AMERICANS UNITED FOR PROGRESS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MICHIGAN EDUCATION FUND: $20,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetMICHIGAN INTERFAITH POWER & LIGHT INC: $20,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetMOTHERING JUSTICE: $18,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWAUB AJIJAAK PRESS & FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetALICIAS HELPING HAND: $17,368 over 1y, 59% of budgetCOMMUNITY AIDS RESOURCE & EDUCATION SERVICES OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $16,889 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNATION OUTSIDE INC: $16,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

Kalamazoo Community F…State VoicesBvm Capacity Building…Michigan Civic Educat…Tides FoundationMichigan Nonprofit As…Community Foundation …Promote the Vote Fund…The Skillman Foundati…Amalgamated Charitabl…New Venture FundRockefeller Philanthr…
Kalamazoo Community FoundationMI51× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kalamazoo Community Foundation · State Voices · Bvm Capacity Building Institute Inc · Michigan Civic Education Fund · Tides Foundation · Michigan Nonprofit Association · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Promote the Vote Fund Inc · The Skillman Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors 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 Voices funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michigan Voices. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get 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
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Michigan Voices?

    Find your warmest path to Michigan Voices through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 69 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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