· Public charity
Muskegon Community Health Project
We, mercy health and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF THE LAKESHORE | $25,000 |
| FRESH COAST ALLIANCE | $25,000 |
| KIDS FOOD BASKET | $25,000 |
| READ MUSKEGON | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUND FOR OCEANA CTY | $15,000 |
| MUSKEGON YMCA | $12,500 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MUSKEGON LAKESHORE | $12,500 |
| ACCESS HEALTH INC | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
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 +34% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- MYMUSKEGON YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION6× · 2018–2025 · $128k · revenue +34%
- KFKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC6× · 2017–2025 · $125k · revenue +16%
- RMREAD MUSKEGON6× · 2020–2025 · $124k · revenue +358%
Funded once
- GIGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF WEST MICHIGAN INCone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +22%
- SRSenior Resources of West Michigangraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +65%
- WDWHITEHALL DISTRICT SCHOOLSone grant, 2019 · $13k
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.
To minister to the physical, emotional and spirtual needs of people within the muskegon area, without regard to race, creed, color or religious affiliation.
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
Through internal expertise, external partnerships, and advocacy, the area agency on aging of western michigan provides older adults, adults with disabilities, and their caregivers equitable access to services that promote independence and…
The michigan christian home dba beacon hill at eastgate, a not-for-profit corporation, provides housing and health services in a christian environment for older adults, thus enabling them to meet their ongoing physical, social and…
Uniting christian faith leaders to serve with humility and love for the flourishing of all in our community.
Muskegon family care is a federally qualified health center with medical and dental clinics reaching out to uninsured and underinsured patients in muskegon county.
Focusing community resources to meet community needs the United Way of Marquette County works to advance the common good by connecting people with health and human care issues they are concerned about and to provide the oversight the…
Through dedicated staff and community partnerships we provide services, resources, education and advocacy to improve the quality of life for all residents of muskegon and oceana counties.
We advance the missions of michigan nonprofit organizations that serve low income individuals and communities through pro bono and low cost legal and other professional services, organizational development, and trusted guidance.
Our mission is to promote and enrich quality of life for older adults and those who care for them by collaboratively providing meaningful services and opportunities.
To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.
The organization's mission is to foster positive change by providing opportunities that promote self-sufficiency, improving the quality of life and building stronger, more connected communitites. northwest michigan community action agency,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for Muskegon County and the most unlike its peers is Volunteer for Dental. 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 44 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 29 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.
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 MUSKEGON YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds READ MUSKEGON ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE MUSKEGON LAKESHORE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR OCEANA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE LAKESHORE ↗
- Who funds FRESH COAST ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds ACCESS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds THE ARBOR CIRCLE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF MUSKEGON COUNTY INC D/B/A HARBOR HOSPICE ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER FOR DENTAL ↗
- Who funds MIGRANT LEGAL AID INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds BETHANY HOUSING MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds RENEW MOBILITY ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF WEST MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds Senior Resources of West Michigan ↗
- Who funds PIONEER RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MUSKEGON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds AGEWELL SERVICES OF WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds DWELLING PLACE OF GRAND RAPIDS NONPROFIT ↗
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 Muskegon County · United Way of the Lakeshore · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · Mercy Health Partners · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Frey Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Women's Division Chamber of Commerce · Fremont Area Community Foundation · Michigan College Access Network · Consumers Energy Foundation
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 Muskegon Community Health Project 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.