· Public charity
St Joseph County United Way
Mobilizing our community to improve lives and advance the common good.
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.
The 21 grants below total $510,186 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $540,692 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $30,506 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $278k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $172k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $172,368 |
| KEYSTONE PLACE | $48,803 |
| UNITED COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM | $34,850 |
| DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL ABUSE SERVICES | $30,020 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $29,740 |
| CHILDRENS TRAMA ASSESSMENT GROUP | $28,810 |
| COMMUNITY HEALING CENTER | $20,700 |
| SOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK | $19,324 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $17,145 |
| CARNEGIE CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $15,400 |
| CHILDRENS CONCERNS OF ST JOESPH COU | $11,515 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,015 |
| ST JOESEPH COMMUNITY CO-OP | $11,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,568 |
| EMERGENCY CARE NETWORK | $9,370 |
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 (FY17–20, $174k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
48 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- CTCHILDRENS TRAUMA ASSESSMENT GROUP4× · 2017–2020 · $139k · revenue +7% · 51% of their budget
- DADOMESTIC AND SEXUAL ABUSE SERVICES4× · 2017–2020 · $136k · revenue +15%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY4× · 2017–2020 · $127k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $31k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $8k
- SJST JOSEPH COUNTY VICTIM SERVICES UNITone grant, 2017 · $8k
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.
The prevention of child abuse
Our aim is to try each day to build a new society in the shell of the old as we practice the various works of mercy, and labor with whatever resources, physical as well as spiritual, that we have been given at the time.
Mobilizing our community to improve lives and advance the common good.
To provide Northeast Michigan with referrals and information to assist with essential needs.
Youth counseling for troubled adolescents and their families.
Southwest michigan community action agency's purpose is to provide assistance to low income individuals in southwest michigan
Provide adoption, counseling services, and refugee assistance
To promote business and economic development for eight towns in southwest michigan.
To assist people with low or moderate income to obtain safe and affordable housing
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
Programs for local youth
To ensure all michigan children and youth with emotional, behavioral, or mental health challenges and their families live in a safe, welcoming community with access to needed services and supports.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Healing Centers and the most unlike its peers is United Community Assistance Program Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 57 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 CHILDRENS TRAUMA ASSESSMENT GROUP ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL ABUSE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds United Community Assistance Program Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY CARE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE CENTER COUNCIL FOR THE ART ↗
- Who funds SOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds St Joseph Community Co-op Inc ↗
- Who funds THREE RIVERS ACADEMIC MENTORING INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS CONCERNS OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MICHIANA INC ↗
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: Sturgis Area Community Foundation · Evergreene Foundation · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · Amazonsmile 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 St Joseph County United Way 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.