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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
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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.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Youth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving21$510k5%
FY202421$498k5%
FY202321$537k10%
FY202221$452k14%
FY202120$401k100%
FY202024$436k8%
FY201924$357k0%
FY201825$371k4%
88% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$788kHousing & Shelter$474kHealth$472kRecreation & Sports$363kPublic Safety & Disaster$172kFood & Nutrition$142kArts & Culture$116kYouth Development$92kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Childrens Trauma Assessment Group$139,000451%
Domestic and Sexual Abuse Services$135,69046%
Keystone Place Inc$131,67545%
Habitat for Humanity$127,250418%
United Community Assistance Program Inc$80,0004n/a
Community Healing Centers$76,00040%
Sturgis Public High School$72,3504n/a
American National Red Cross$70,0004n/a
Emergency Care Network Inc$66,500461%
Carnegie Center Council for the Art$55,000412%
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All grantees of St Joseph County United Way by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Childrens Trauma Assessment Group$139,000451%
Domestic and Sexual Abuse Services$135,69046%
Keystone Place Inc$131,67545%
Habitat for Humanity$127,250418%
United Community Assistance Program Inc$80,0004n/a
Community Healing Centers$76,00040%
Sturgis Public High School$72,3504n/a
American National Red Cross$70,0004n/a
Emergency Care Network Inc$66,500461%
Carnegie Center Council for the Art$55,000412%
St Joseph County Literacy Council$52,0004n/a
City of Sturgis$50,6344n/a
South Michigan Food Bank$47,75240%
St Joseph Community Co-op Inc$45,50041%
Three Rivers Academic Mentoring Inc$38,0002n/a
Childrens Concerns of St Joseph County Inc$37,7404n/a
Young Men's Christian Association of Michiana Inc$36,24540%
Burr Oak Recreation$34,9004n/a
Village of Constantine$34,0004n/a
Salvation Army Social Services of Kent County$31,5252n/a
Three Rivers Recreation$30,6603n/a
Sturgis Neighborhood Program$30,500415%
Mendon Recreation$27,0004n/a
Boy Scouts of America$24,00040%
Girl Scouts Heart of Michigan$24,00040%
St Joseph County Victim Services Unit$7,6931n/a
St Joseph County 4-H Youth Council$6,000112%
Sturgis Area Chamber of Commerce$6,00015%
St Joseph County Council for Pre- Vention of Child Abuse & Neglect$5,3511n/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.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChildrens Trauma Assessment Group: $139,000 over 4y, 51% of budgetDomestic and Sexual Abuse Services: $135,690 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetKeystone Place Inc: $131,675 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetHabitat for Humanity: $127,250 over 4y, 18% of budgetCommunity Healing Centers: $76,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetEmergency Care Network Inc: $66,500 over 4y, 61% of budgetCarnegie Center Council for the Art: $55,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetSouth Michigan Food Bank: $47,752 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSt Joseph Community Co-op Inc: $45,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Michiana Inc: $36,245 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSturgis Neighborhood Program: $30,500 over 4y, 15% of budgetBoy Scouts of America: $24,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGirl Scouts Heart of Michigan: $24,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSt Joseph County 4-H Youth Council: $6,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetSturgis Area Chamber of Commerce: $6,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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.

Sturgis Area Community FoundationMI24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sturgis Area Community Foundation · Evergreene Foundation · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 57 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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