Michigan · Public charity
St Joseph County United Way
Mobilizing our community to improve lives and advance the common good.
- $541k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $510k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $11,515
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $172,368
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 25
- FY2018 to FY2024
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.4M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations St Joseph County United Way funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $162k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 21 | $510k | 5% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $498k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $537k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $452k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $401k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $436k | 8% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $357k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $371k | 4% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Childrens Trauma Assessment Group | $139,000 | 4 | 51% |
| Domestic and Sexual Abuse Services | $135,690 | 4 | 6% |
| Keystone Place Inc | $131,675 | 4 | 5% |
| Habitat for Humanity | $127,250 | 4 | 18% |
| United Community Assistance Program Inc | $80,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Community Healing Centers | $76,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Sturgis Public High School | $72,350 | 4 | n/a |
| American National Red Cross | $70,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Emergency Care Network Inc | $66,500 | 4 | 61% |
| Carnegie Center Council for the Art | $55,000 | 4 | 12% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Childrens Trauma Assessment Group | $139,000 | 4 | 51% |
| Domestic and Sexual Abuse Services | $135,690 | 4 | 6% |
| Keystone Place Inc | $131,675 | 4 | 5% |
| Habitat for Humanity | $127,250 | 4 | 18% |
| United Community Assistance Program Inc | $80,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Community Healing Centers | $76,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Sturgis Public High School | $72,350 | 4 | n/a |
| American National Red Cross | $70,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Emergency Care Network Inc | $66,500 | 4 | 61% |
| Carnegie Center Council for the Art | $55,000 | 4 | 12% |
| St Joseph County Literacy Council | $52,000 | 4 | n/a |
| City of Sturgis | $50,634 | 4 | n/a |
| South Michigan Food Bank | $47,752 | 4 | 0% |
| St Joseph Community Co-op Inc | $45,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Three Rivers Academic Mentoring Inc | $38,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Childrens Concerns of St Joseph County Inc | $37,740 | 4 | n/a |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Michiana Inc | $36,245 | 4 | 0% |
| Burr Oak Recreation | $34,900 | 4 | n/a |
| Village of Constantine | $34,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Salvation Army Social Services of Kent County | $31,525 | 2 | n/a |
| Three Rivers Recreation | $30,660 | 3 | n/a |
| Sturgis Neighborhood Program | $30,500 | 4 | 15% |
| Mendon Recreation | $27,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Boy Scouts of America | $24,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Girl Scouts Heart of Michigan | $24,000 | 4 | 0% |
| St Joseph County Victim Services Unit | $7,693 | 1 | n/a |
| St Joseph County 4-H Youth Council | $6,000 | 1 | 12% |
| Sturgis Area Chamber of Commerce | $6,000 | 1 | 5% |
| St Joseph County Council for Pre- Vention of Child Abuse & Neglect | $5,351 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
St Joseph County United Way supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Sturgis Area Community Foundation · Evergreene Foundation · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About St Joseph County United Way
- How much does St Joseph County United Way give?
- St Joseph County United Way reported 21 itemized grants totaling $510,186, out of $540,692 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does St Joseph County United Way fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (20%), Housing & Shelter (12%), Health (12%).
- Who are St Joseph County United Way's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Childrens Trauma Assessment Group ($139k), Domestic and Sexual Abuse Services ($136k), Keystone Place Inc ($132k).
- Does St Joseph County United Way fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as St Joseph County United Way?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sturgis Area Community Foundation, Evergreene Foundation, John E Fetzer Institute Inc.
- Where is St Joseph County United Way based?
- St Joseph County United Way is based in MI.
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