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St Joseph County United Way

Mobilizing our community to improve lives and advance the common good.

$541k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
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States reached
$172k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0188% 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
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 21 grants below total $510,186, the rows itemized in this filing. The $540,692 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $30,506 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $59k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $278k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $172k
$11,515
Median grant
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States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL ABUSE SERVICES: $35k → 13%DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL ABUSE SERVICES: $34k → 13%DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL ABUSE SERVICES: $34k → 13%DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL ABUSE SERVICES: $34k → 13%THREE RIVERS AREA MENTOR: $19k → 13%THREE RIVERS AREA MENTOR: $19k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.9M · 48 repeat orgs$81k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
8

Total granted

$3.9M
$76k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+46%

Still filing today

31%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Housing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesHealthPublic BenefitEmploymentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CT
    CHILDRENS TRAUMA ASSESSMENT GROUP
    4× · 2017–2020 · $139k · revenue +7% · 51% of their budget
  • DA
    DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL ABUSE SERVICES
    4× · 2017–2020 · $136k · revenue +32%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    4× · 2017–2020 · $127k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $31k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $8k
  • SJ
    ST JOSEPH COUNTY VICTIM SERVICES UNIT
    one grant, 2017 · $8k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
St Joseph County United Way

Mobilizing our community to improve lives and advance the common good.

Philanthropy
2
St Joseph's House of Hospitality

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.

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3
St Joseph County Child Abuse Prevention Council Inc

The prevention of child abuse

Crime & Legal
4
211 Northeast Michigan

To provide Northeast Michigan with referrals and information to assist with essential needs.

Community Improvement
5
Catholic Charities Counseling & Adoption Services of the Diocese of Erie Inc

Provide adoption, counseling services, and refugee assistance

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6
Child & Family Service of Saginaw

Child and Family Service of Saginaw County is a social work agency dedicated to enhancing the quality of life in our community by fostering personal growth, emotional development, recovery from trauma, self- reliance, and healthy…

Human Services
7
St Clair County Day Program Inc

Youth counseling for troubled adolescents and their families.

Human Services
8
Midmichigan Health Services

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

Health
9
Sterling Area Health Center

Combining leadership and teamwork to provide caring, high quality, efficient, and affordable primary health care for all segments of the community.

Health
10
Southwest Michigan Community Action Agency

Southwest michigan community action agency's purpose is to provide assistance to low income individuals in southwest michigan

Community Improvement
11
Habitat for Humanity of Michigan Inc

Our mission is to assist our affiliates to increase capacity to build simple decent homes in partnership with people in need in the State of Michigan.

Housing & Shelter
12
Saint Joseph Home Health Care

Saint Joseph Home Health Care seeks to serve the poor, elderly, and disabled in a way that pleases God and honors the dignity of each person.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Domestic and Sexual Abuse Services; 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.
04the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
11/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OTHER: $468,291 · OtherOTHERIndividual grant recipient: $334,405 · OtherIndividual grant recipientKEYSTONE PLACE: $197,229 · OtherKEYSTONE PLACECHILDRENS TRAMA ASSESSMENT GROUP: $155,977 · OtherDOMESTIC AND SEXUAL ABUSE SERVICES: $149,005 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $147,510 · OtherUNITED COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: $123,770 · Other+39 more: $1,594,346 · Other+39 moreKEYSTONE PLACE INC: $131,675 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $127,250 · Housing & ShelterSTURGIS NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRAM: $30,500 · Housing & ShelterDOMESTIC AND SEXUAL ABUSE SERVICES: $135,690 · Human ServicesTHREE RIVERS ACADEMIC MENTORING INC: $38,000 · Human ServicesCHILDRENS TRAUMA ASSESSMENT GROUP: $139,000 · HealthUnited Community Assistance Program Inc: $80,000 · Public BenefitBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $24,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS HEART OF MICHIGAN: $24,000 · Youth DevelopmentST JOSEPH COUNTY 4-H YOUTH COUNCIL: $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentSt Joseph Community Co-op Inc: $45,500 · Employment
Other$3,170,533Housing & Shelter$289,425Human Services$173,690Health$139,000Public Benefit$80,000Youth Development$54,000Employment$45,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

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 Communit…Evergreene FoundationJohn E Fetzer Institu…Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization St Joseph County United Way funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from St Joseph County United Way. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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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