· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- $10k–50k6 grants · $175k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MI ASSOCIATION OF UNITED WAYS LABOR PROGRAM | $216,494 |
| 482FORWARD | $166,494 |
| AFT MI SUPPORT & COMMUNITY EDUCATION FUND | $150,000 |
| MI AFSCME COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CORP | $150,000 |
| MI STATE AFL-CIO LABOR FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS MI | $150,000 |
| SEIU 517M TOMORROW'S MI TODAY | $150,000 |
| MICHIGAN VOICE | $125,000 |
| MI CIVIC EDUCATION FUND | $125,000 |
| FIRST STEP | $50,000 |
| MI AFL-CIO WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT INST (PH I) | $50,000 |
| HAVEN | $50,000 |
| MI COALITION TO END DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE | $50,000 |
| MOTHERING JUSTICE | $50,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF EASTERN MICHIGAN | $37,500 |
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.
Your 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of -1% since the first grant, against -54% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF MICHIGAN2× · 2020–2021 · $300k · revenue +224%- 4F482 FORWARD2× · 2020–2021 · $291k · revenue +124%
- MCMICHIGAN CIVIC EDUCATION FUND2× · 2020–2021 · $250k · revenue ×15
Funded once
- NDNEW DETROIT INCone grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue -54%
- SVSTATE VOICESone grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue -64%
- TCTRI COUNTY LABOR AGENCY FOR HUMAN SERVICES INCone grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue -56% · 33% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Council of Michigan Foundations and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
25 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Michigan Association of United Ways Inc ↗
- Who funds AFT MICHIGAN COMMUNITY SUPPORT AND EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds Michigan AFSCME Community Assistance Program Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN AFL-CIO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEIU 517M TOMORROWS MICHIGAN TODAY ↗
- Who funds 482 FORWARD ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN CIVIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds NEW DETROIT INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN VOICES ↗
- Who funds STATE VOICES ↗
- Who funds First Step The Western Wayne County Project Domestic Assault ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN COALITION TO END DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds TRI COUNTY LABOR AGENCY FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER LANSING FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of Eastern Michigan ↗
- Who funds MOTHERING JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOC ↗
- Who funds HAVEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN STATE AFL-CIO WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL FINANCE RESEARCH COLLABORATIVE ↗
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.
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
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 Public Employees Benefit Trust 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.
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.