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ST JOSEPH MERCY CHELSEA INC
To provide health care and hospital services
$319k
Granted FY2023
7
Grants
1
Communities
$163k
Largest
01What you fund
0161% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2023.
Human Services$559kHealth$105kFood & Nutrition$25kOther$444k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
fiscalillnessfoodresource crcaddressemergencyfinancial
2020
foodresource crcaddresswell-beingfinancialemergencyphysical
2021
illness
2022
foodresource crcaddressemergencywell-being
2023
well-beingsocialphysical
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2023 · 7 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $218k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$166M
Total assets
Largest grants
- WESTERN WASHTENAW AREA VALUE EXPRESS$163,404
- STOCKBRIDGE COMMUNITY OUTREACH ASSOCIATION$55,000
- ST LOUIS CENTER$15,200
- CHELSEA SENIOR CITIZENS ACTIVITES CENTER$15,000
- COPPER NAIL COMMUNITY RESALE SHOP$15,000
- DEXTER SENIOR CITIZENS INC$10,000
- GRASS LAKE SENIOR CENTER$8,000
02The need
04
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 (FY19–23, $559k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.
87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$987k · 11 repeat orgs$147k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +73% since the first grant, against -86% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
11
5
Total granted
$987k
$147k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+73%
-86%
Still filing today
91%
60%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionOther
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
- WWWESTERN WASHTENAW AREA VALUE EXPRESS5× · 2019–2023 · $383k · revenue +125%
- SCSTOCKBRIDGE COMMUNITY OUTREACH ASSOCIATION4× · 2019–2023 · $190k · revenue +63% · 45% of their budget
- FIFAITH IN ACTION INC3× · 2019–2022 · $73k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- MSMETRO SOLUTIONS INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $80k · revenue +46%
- TCTHE CHELSEA HEALTH AND WELLNESS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -120%
- AFACORN FARMERS MARKET AND CAFEone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -86%
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
West Chester Area Senior Center
Enriching the lives of our senior neighbors through friendship, activities, education and nourishment.
Human Services
2
Chelsea Senior Citizens Center
Providing meals and services for the elderly.
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3
Sherman County Senior Center Inc
To offer a nutrition program for older persons.
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4
Weston County Senior Services
The organization provides reduced priced meals, home delivered meals, transportation, and social activities to senior citizens. In addtion, the organization provided elderly rentals and community rentals.
Human Services
5
Agewell Services of West Michigan
Agewell services mission is to promote healthy aging and maximize independence through nutrition, wellness, and supportive services in the community.
Food & Nutrition
6
Southside Senior Citizen Center
Adults day care
Human Services
7
South Royalton Area Senior Cen
Sr citizens center providing meals and services for the elderly citizens in the area
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8
Mymichigan Health
Creating healthy communities together by providing excellent health services to improve the quality of life for our communities.
Health
9
Manistee County Council On Aging
Provide services for senior citizens both through the center and to those with limited resources or homebound.
Human Services
10
Wheatland County Senior Citizens Center
Providing care and services for senior citizens.
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11
Bedford Senior Community Center
The bedford senior community center is dedicated to providing the highest quality recreational, social and supportive services to mature adults. the goal is to foster a warm environment where individuals can explore and enjoy activities…
Recreation & Sports
12
Cascade Senior Citizens Inc
Provide meals to seniors 60+, exercise classes, health information, receive donations and do fundraisers.
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Resource Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Chelsea Health and Wellness. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Human Services$558,741Other$444,346Health$105,000Food & Nutrition$25,000
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 WESTERN WASHTENAW AREA VALUE EXPRESS ↗
- Who funds STOCKBRIDGE COMMUNITY OUTREACH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds METRO SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI WASHTENAW COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds COPPER NAIL COMMUNITY RESALE SHOP ↗
- Who funds CHELSEA SENIOR CITIZENS ACTIVITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds DEXTER SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHELSEA HEALTH AND WELLNESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACORN FARMERS MARKET AND CAFE ↗
- Who funds GRASS LAKE SENIOR CENTER ↗
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.
Trinity Health - MichiganMI22.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Trinity Health - Michigan · The Chelsea Health and Wellness · Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast · Consumers Energy Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation 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 organisation ST JOSEPH MERCY CHELSEA INC 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: STOCKBRIDGE COMMUNITY OUTREACH ASSOCIATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +63% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 382609279 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on STOCKBRIDGE COMMUNITY OUTREACH ASSOCIATION, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 45% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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Find your warmest path to St Joseph Mercy Chelsea Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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