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Corewell Health Group Return

To improve health, instill humanity and inspire hope.

$3.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$134k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$9.5MFood & Nutrition$2.0MHuman Services$1.7MHousing & Shelter$1.6MEducation$1.5MArts & Culture$740kCommunity Improvement$700kPhilanthropy$619kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 3 grants below total $171,647 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,988,745 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,817,098 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $38k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $134k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.8B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGAN$134,147
MONTCALM COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$20,000
CITY OF LUDINGTON$17,500
02The need
03

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 (FY17–23, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSN - TRI - CITIES MICHIGAN: $38k → 8%True North Community Services: $60k → 13%SENIOR SERVICES OF VAN BUREN COUNTY: $50k → 14%BENTON HARBOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $76k → 15%TRUE NORTH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 13%REALISM IS LOYALTY: $120k → 11%REGION IV AREA ON AGING: $60k → 15%New Heights Christian Community Development Association: $50k → 15%REALISM IS LOYALTY: $40k → 11%Realism is Loyalty: $40k → 11%AFRICAN RESOURCE CENTER OF WEST MICHIGAN: $40k → 11%Samaritas: $30k → 11%THRESHOLDS INC: $200k → 11%AMA INTERNATIONAL: $24k → 11%BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER: $85k → 11%ARBOR CIRCLE CORPORATION: $118k → 11%ARBOR CIRCLE CORPORATION: $115k → 11%ARBOR CIRCLE CORPORATION: $90k → 11%BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER: $40k → 11%ARBOR CIRCLE CORPORATION: $79k → 11%Arbor Circle Corporation: $70k → 11%Baxter Community Center: $30k → 11%Arbor Circle Corporation: $60k → 11%THE STORE HOUSE: $40k → 11%FITKIDS360: $40k → 11%NORTH KENT CONNECT: $40k → 11%AREA AGENCY ON AGING OF WEST MICHIGAN: $9k → 11%OASIS OF HOPE: $20k → 11%YMCA: $81k → 11%YMCA: $50k → 11%YMCA: $44k → 11%HISPANIC CENTER OF WESTERN MICHIGAN INC: $41k → 11%Grand Rapids Urban League: $40k → 11%YMCA: $35k → 11%YMCA: $25k → 11%YMCA: $25k → 11%Degage Ministries: $20k → 11%DEGAGE MINISTRIES: $20k → 11%Degage Ministries: $15k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$16M · 57 repeat orgs$3.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +74% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

57 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 56 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
78

Total granted

$16M
$3.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%
+16%

Still filing today

89%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $152k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther

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

  • CH
    COREWELL HEALTH
    6× · 2017–2022 · $2.4M · revenue +168%
  • CS
    Cherry Street Services Inc
    7× · 2017–2023 · $2.1M · revenue +19%
  • HI
    HEALTH INTERVENTION SERVICES
    7× · 2017–2023 · $922k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • CO
    CITY OF GRAND RAPIDS
    one grant, 2021 · $300k
  • OM
    Our Mental Health Collective
    one grant, 2023 · $261k · revenue -17% · 63% of their budget
  • LU
    LifeQuest Urban Outreach Center
    one grant, 2021 · $225k

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.

1
Mid Michigan Community Action Agency Inc

Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.

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2
Midmichigan Health Services

To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.

Health
3
Michigan Family Resources

Michigan Family Resources mission is to deliver holistic family-centered services to children that promote their well-being and development.

Education
4
Center for Family Health

The mission of the Center for Family Health is opening the door to health care for all.

Health
5
Great Lakes Community Action Partnership

The mission of great lakes community action partnership is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.

Human Services
6
United Way of Marquette 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…

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7
Michigan Assoc of Community Mental Health Boards

Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.

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8
Community Education Commission

CEC works with diverse stakeholders across Detroit to develop critical resources and system-level solutions that address common challenges faced by Detroit families in accessing quality education.

Education
9
Lakeshore Legal Aid

Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.

Crime & Legal
10
Lincoln Behavioral Services

To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…

Health
11
Northwest Michigan Community Action

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,…

Human Services
12
The Right Place Inc

The right place is the economic development organization that drives current and long-term economic prosperity in west michigan.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grand Rapids Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChristian Discipleship Mini…Business Development & Econ…Hospital Health SystemsDetroit Family ServicesMuslim Community CentersHealth and Wellness Support…Private Recreational ClubsChristian School FoundationsSenior Services CentersPerforming Arts Organizatio…Food Security & NutritionInternational Humanitarian …Labor Union Organizations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%2%<5yr15%14%5–10yr18%19%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr14%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%0%<5yr15%12%5–10yr18%23%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr14%10%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%2/141
the rest of the field
16%
2,273/13,812

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.

04the grantee network

115 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. 115 of the 141 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.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
39
Early backer (in before they grew)
109/115
Grantees still filing
84/115
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COREWELL HEALTH — $2,400,270 · HealthCOREWELL HEALTHCherry Street Services Inc — $2,136,150 · HealthCherry Street Services IncHEALTH INTERVENTION SERVICES — $922,306 · HealthHEALTH INTERVENTION SERVICESHealth Net of West Michigan — $515,000 · HealthHealth Net of West MichiganCATHERINES HEALTH CENTER — $370,000 · HealthAFRICAN-AMERICAN HEALTH INSTITUTE — $261,870 · HealthOur Mental Health Collective — $261,125 · Health+5 more — $423,437 · Health+5 moreGRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $544,582 · OtherGRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC SCHOOLSFAMILY OUTREACH CENTER — $300,500 · OtherCITY OF GRAND RAPIDS — $300,000 · OtherMEL TROTTER MINISTRIES — $295,000 · OtherLifeQuest Urban Outreach Center — $225,000 · OtherACCESS OF WEST MICHIGAN — $721,875 · OtherACCESS OF WEST MICHIGANHEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY — $261,184 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOOD CLUBS — $495,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOOD CLUBS+69 more — $3,323,899 · Other+69 moreTHE ARBOR CIRCLE CORPORATION — $531,607 · Human ServicesTHE ARBOR CI…The Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Grand Rapids (3019) — $260,060 · Human ServicesThe Young Me…THRESHOLDS INC — $200,000 · Human ServicesTHRESHOLDS I…REALISM IS LOYALTY — $200,000 · Human ServicesREALISM IS L…BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER — $155,000 · Human ServicesBAXTER COMMU…BENTON HARBOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $75,576 · Human Services+18 more — $731,362 · Human Services+18 moreDWELLING PLACE OF GRAND RAPIDS NONPROFIT — $723,500 · Housing & ShelterDWELLING P…HOME REPAIR SERVICES OF KENT COUNTY INC — $290,000 · Housing & ShelterHOME REPAI…LINC UP NONPROFIT HOUSING CORPORATION — $256,000 · Housing & ShelterLINC UP NO…HEALTHY HOMES COALITION OF WEST MICHIGAN INC — $225,000 · Housing & ShelterHEALTHY HO…COMMUNITY REBUILDERS — $220,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY …FAMILY PROMISE OF GRAND RAPIDS — $75,000 · Housing & Shelter+2 more — $93,000 · Housing & ShelterWEST MICHIGAN HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION — $330,000 · Community ImprovementKINGDOM LIFE MINISTRIES COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $138,500 · Community ImprovementSTART GARDEN INC — $118,000 · Community ImprovementIFF — $100,000 · Community ImprovementA Glimpse of Africa — $79,500 · Community ImprovementURBAN CORE COLLECTIVE — $47,325 · Community ImprovementSTEEPLETOWN NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC — $40,088 · Community Improvement+1 more — $10,000 · Community ImprovementTHE DIATRIBE INC — $300,000 · Arts & CultureGrandville Avenue Arts and Humanities Inc — $285,000 · Arts & CultureDEARBORN COMMUNITY FUND — $70,000 · Arts & CultureKRASL ART CENTER INC — $55,487 · Arts & CultureLAHC - LEADERS ADVANCING AND HELPING COMMUNITIES — $55,000 · Arts & CultureMICHIGAN BLACK EXPO INC — $40,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $31,685 · Arts & CultureLiteracy Center of West Michigan — $410,000 · EducationWEST MICHIGAN CENTER FOR ARTS & TECHNOLOGY — $215,125 · EducationCALVIN UNIVERSITY — $119,522 · EducationREADY FOR SCHOOL — $35,000 · Education
Health$7,290,158Other$6,467,040Human Services$2,153,605Housing & Shelter$1,882,500Community Improvement$863,413Arts & Culture$837,172Education$779,647

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOREWELL HEALTH — $2,400,270 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCherry Street Services Inc — $2,136,150 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetHEALTH INTERVENTION SERVICES — $922,306 over 7y, 13% of budgetDWELLING PLACE OF GRAND RAPIDS NONPROFIT — $723,500 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetACCESS OF WEST MICHIGAN — $721,875 over 6y, 18% of budgetTHE ARBOR CIRCLE CORPORATION — $531,607 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetHealth Net of West Michigan — $515,000 over 7y, 3.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD CLUBS — $495,000 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetLiteracy Center of West Michigan — $410,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetCATHERINES HEALTH CENTER — $370,000 over 7y, 4.8% of budgetWEST MICHIGAN HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION — $330,000 over 2y, 39% of budgetFAMILY OUTREACH CENTER — $300,500 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetTHE DIATRIBE INC — $300,000 over 2y, 40% of budgetMEL TROTTER MINISTRIES — $295,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetHOME REPAIR SERVICES OF KENT COUNTY INC — $290,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetGrandville Avenue Arts and Humanities Inc — $285,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetAFRICAN-AMERICAN HEALTH INSTITUTE — $261,870 over 6y, 45% of budgetHEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY — $261,184 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetOur Mental Health Collective — $261,125 over 1y, 63% of budgetThe Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Grand Rapids (3019) — $260,060 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetLINC UP NONPROFIT HOUSING CORPORATION — $256,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetHEALTHY HOMES COALITION OF WEST MICHIGAN INC — $225,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetCOMMUNITY REBUILDERS — $220,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetWEST MICHIGAN CENTER FOR ARTS & TECHNOLOGY — $215,125 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetTHRESHOLDS INC — $200,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetREALISM IS LOYALTY — $200,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetBARRY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation of Michigan Inc — $180,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS YOUTH COMMONWEALTH INC — $168,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetFAMILY FUTURES — $155,661 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetBAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER — $155,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetThe Refugee Education Center — $150,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetKINGDOM LIFE MINISTRIES COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $138,500 over 4y, 43% of budgetPuertas Abiertas Inc — $136,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetCOREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGAN — $134,147 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWELL HOUSE — $130,000 over 4y, 10.0% of budgetTHE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION — $127,936 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALVIN UNIVERSITY — $119,522 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTART GARDEN INC — $118,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetMICHIGAN COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER ALLIANCE — $117,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetUNITED METHODIST COMMUNITY HOUSE — $115,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetNEW CITY KIDS INC — $110,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS — $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetIFF — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMICHIGAN'S GREAT SOUTHWEST STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP COUNCIL — $100,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER MICHIANA INC — $95,582 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetA Glimpse of Africa — $79,500 over 1y, 16% of budgetBENTON HARBOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $75,576 over 1y, 28% of budget
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.

Grand Rapids Communit…Heart of West Michiga…The Wege FoundationFrey FoundationSteelcase FoundationMichigan Health Endow…The Meijer FoundationDouglas & Maria Devos…Consumers Energy Foun…Cdv5 FoundationThe Mercantile Bank F…WK Kellogg Foundation
Grand Rapids Community FoundationMI129.8× affinity70 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · The Wege Foundation · Frey Foundation · Steelcase Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · The Meijer Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Cdv5 Foundation · The Mercantile Bank Foundation · WK Kellogg 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 Corewell Health Group Return 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    37report 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 141 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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