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State Alliance of Michigan YMCAs (0050)
The state alliance will be used to convene, coordinate, support, advocate, and carry out the charitable and educational purposes of the michigan ymca's.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $42k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $647k
- $250k+21 grants · $20M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA of Metropolitan Lansing | $3,667,561 |
| YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit | $3,149,696 |
| YMCA of Greater Grand Rapids | $2,715,484 |
| YMCA of Greater Flint | $1,546,055 |
| YMCA of Greater Kalamazoo | $1,533,495 |
| YMCA of Greater Michiana | $836,824 |
| Ann Arbor YMCA | $826,842 |
| Monroe Family YMCA | $784,993 |
| YMCA of the Blue Water Area | $628,520 |
| Northern Lights YMCA Inc | $509,546 |
| YMCA of Greater Toledo | $482,799 |
| YMCA of Saginaw | $391,705 |
| Tri-Cities Family YMCA | $388,903 |
| Grand Traverse Bay YMCA | $381,879 |
| Sherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center | $379,910 |
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 (FY22–23, $11.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 70% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit3× · 2022–2024 · $6.5M · revenue +16%- TYThe Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Grand Rapids (3019)3× · 2022–2024 · $5.0M · revenue +88%
- YMYoung Mens Christian Association of Lansing Michigan3× · 2022–2024 · $4.4M · revenue +35% · 35% of their budget
Funded once
- GRGRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC SCHOOLSone grant, 2023 · $88k
- RHRenaissance High Schoolone grant, 2023 · $65k
- DPDETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS COMMUNITY DISTRICTone grant, 2023 · $61k
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.
To put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all.
The mission of the brainerd family ymca is to enhance the lives in the brainerd lakes area by connecting individuals and families with opportunities based on christian values that build a healthy spirit, mind, & body.
Our mission is to build strong kids, strong families, and strong communities. The YMCA of the Chippewa Valley is a community centered association dedicated to building a healthy spirit, mind and body for all people, while maintaining an…
The mission of the ymca of central new mexico is to put christian principles into practice through programs that build a healthy spirit, mind and body for all. for over 100 years, the ymca of central new mexico has served our community…
The mission of the YMCA is to put Christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind, and body for all. We are an inclusive organization, serving all people regardless of background, religion, beliefs,…
The shasta family ymca strengthens community through programs and activities that create a healthy spirit, mind and body for all.
The y's programs focus on improving people's spiritual, intellectual, and physical well-being to support people as they actualize their fullest potential. the ymca serves community members of all abilities, ages, cultural backgrounds,…
The Y is the nation's leading nonprofit committed to strengthening communities through Youth Development, Healthy Living and Social Responsibility.
We build strong kids, strong families, and strong communities with a primary focus on youth activities and programs.
The mission of the lake county ymca is to put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all.
The mission of the YMCA of Greater Cincinnati is to put Christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all. Counting members and program participants, the Y reaches more than 114,000 people…
The mission of the ymca is to put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all. the y mission is also to advance our cause of strengthening community through youth development,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Men's Christian Assn - Tri-Cities Michigan and the most unlike its peers is Rochester Community Schools Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 76 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
31 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. 31 of the 87 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 YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit ↗
- Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Grand Rapids (3019) ↗
- Who funds Young Mens Christian Association of Lansing Michigan ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KALAMAZOO ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Greater Flint ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER MICHIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Ann Arbor Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MONROE MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE BLUE WATER AREA ↗
- Who funds MUSKEGON YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN LIGHTS YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND TRAVERSE BAY YMCA ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC-SAGINAW ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Toledo ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSN - TRI-CITIES MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Jackson YMCA Inc ↗
- Who funds Shiawassee Family YMCA ↗
- Who funds Sherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center ↗
- Who funds DOW BAY AREA FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BARRY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CADILLAC AREA YMCA ↗
- Who funds GREATER MARINETTE-MENOMINEE YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds DAVID AND THU BRULE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF MARQUETTE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds STATE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds KIMBALL CAMP Outdoor Center ↗
- Who funds State Alliance of Michigan YMCAs (0050) ↗
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: The Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Grand Rapids (3019) · National Council of YMCAs of the USA · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Michigan College Access Network · Consumers Energy Foundation · Share Our Strength · Round It Up America Inc · WK Kellogg Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Michigan Elementary and Middle School Principals Association Inc · Iff · Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community 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 State Alliance of Michigan YMCAs (0050) 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.
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