· Private foundation
The Chelsea Health and Wellness Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 59% of THE CHELSEA HEALTH AND WELLNESS FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k32 grants · $90k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $114k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $259k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MANCHESTER COMMUNITY SCHOOLS | $125,679 |
| ST JOSEPH MERCY CHELSEA | $75,000 |
| 5 HEALTHY TOWNS FOUNDATION | $58,471 |
| CHELSEA WELLNESS CENTER | $49,263 |
| GRASS LAKE SENIOR CENTER | $26,450 |
| DEXTER WELLNESS CENTER | $18,046 |
| MANCHESTER AREA SENIOR CITIZENS COUNC | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| STOCKBRIDGE AREA SENIOR CENTER | $8,000 |
| MAIN STREET PARK ALLIANCE | $7,500 |
| CITY OF CHELSEA | $6,825 |
| GRASS LAKE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $6,250 |
| STOCKBRIDGE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS | $5,800 |
| GRASS LAKE FARMERS MARKET | $5,750 |
| DEXTER WINTER FARMERS MARKET | $5,615 |
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 (FY17–25, $185k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of The Chelsea Health and Wellness Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MI; read by stated purpose it is 83% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
52 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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
- SJST JOSEPH MERCY CHELSEA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $663k · revenue +29%
- THTRINITY HEALTH - MICHIGAN8× · 2018–2025 · $165k · revenue +28%
- GLGRASS LAKE SENIOR CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $94k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $22k
- PMPotawatomi Mountain Bike Associationgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $17k · revenue +271% · 39% of their budget
- CCCHELSEA CHILDRENS COOPERATIVE INCone grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue +21%
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 protect and restore central michigan's land, water, and wildlife resources to improve the quality of life for all.
The Chelsea Rod and Gun Club of Chelsea, Michigan is organized for the purposes of propagating fish and wildlife in the vicinity of Chelsea, Michigan, for leasing and maintaining lands for hunting, and for carrying on conservation and…
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
Our mission is to promote and enrich quality of life for older adults and those who care for them by collaboratively providing meaningful services and opportunities.
Provides information and services for senior citizens of cheboygan county.
To foster, promote and teach amateur hockey in Chelsea, MI and surrounding areas.
The purpose of Chelsea United Way shall be to raise funds in the community to assist local agencies to maintain the health and welfare of members of the community of Chelsea.
To promote business and economic development for eight towns in southwest michigan.
Liaa is a community service organization working to increase the sustainability of communities and expand civic engagement. our mission statement is: helping people to shape better communities through: participation, education, information…
A member driven organization committed to providing quality professional park and recreation programs and services with fiscal integrity and progressive leadership to michigans recreation and parks trade.
We support, promote, and inform our business and non-profit members, as well as chelsea in general, for a stronger, more productive, and cohesive community. we are a non-profit, member-supported organization.
Through internal expertise, external partnerships, and advocacy, the area agency on aging of western michigan provides older adults, adults with disabilities, and their caregivers equitable access to services that promote independence and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Webster Township Historical Society and the most unlike its peers is St Louis Center. 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 22 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 95 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 ST JOSEPH MERCY CHELSEA INC ↗
- Who funds Grass Lake Farmers Market ↗
- Who funds TRINITY HEALTH - MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds ACORN FARMERS MARKET AND CAFE ↗
- Who funds GRASS LAKE SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds HURON WATERLOO PATHWAYS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds CHELSEA SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds DEXTER SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds National Kidney Foundation of Michigan Inc ↗
- Who funds OPEN AIR MARKET OF STOCKBRIDGE ↗
- Who funds Potawatomi Mountain Bike Association ↗
- Who funds WEBSTER TOWNSHIP HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHELSEA CHILDRENS COOPERATIVE INC ↗
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: Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · St Joseph Mercy Chelsea Inc · Trinity Health - Michigan · United Way of Washtenaw County · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Dte Energy Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · The Copper Nail Community Resale Shop · James a and Faith Knight 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 The Chelsea Health and Wellness Foundation 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.