· Public charity
United Way for Southeastern Michigan
To mobilize the caring power of detroit and southeastern michigan to improve communities and individual lives in measurable and lasting ways.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 397 grants below total $52,618,992 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $72,098,753 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $19,479,761 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k35 grants · $253k
- $10k–50k189 grants · $4.8M
- $50k–250k139 grants · $14M
- $250k+34 grants · $34M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS COMMUNITY DISTRICT | $10,012,578 |
| DEARBORN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $7,199,845 |
| LAHC-LEADERS ADVANCING AND HELPING COMMUNITIES | $3,100,000 |
| SOUTHFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $899,680 |
| MATRIX HUMAN SERVICES | $831,580 |
| FRANKLIN WRIGHT SETTLEMENTS | $791,662 |
| SUMMIT ACADEMY NORTH ELEMENTARY | $662,400 |
| THE YUNION INC | $619,865 |
| HAZEL PARK SCHOOL DISTRICT | $592,136 |
| FERNDALE SCHOOLS | $567,364 |
| EASTPOINTE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS | $550,200 |
| MEN LLC | $500,000 |
| UNIVERSITY PREP ACADEMY | $487,200 |
| DIVERSIFIED COMMUNITY SERVICES | $458,439 |
| LEAPS & BOUNDS FAMILY SERVICES | $435,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $53.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 62% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +28% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
354 repeat relationships — 217 still active in FY2024, 137 since wound down; 140 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18M 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
FII - NATIONAL5× · 2017–2021 · $5.7M · revenue +156%- MHMATRIX HUMAN SERVICES7× · 2017–2024 · $4.7M · revenue +47%
- OFOAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES7× · 2017–2024 · $4.5M · revenue +14%
Funded once
- DCDETROIT CHILDREN'S FUNDone grant, 2018 · $2.0M · revenue -46% · 27% of their budget
Michigan Association of United Ways Incone grant, 2021 · $1.7M · revenue -92% · 50% of their budget
SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1.5M · revenue +212%
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.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
To strategically solve problems through collaboratives with City of Detroit Departments, nonprofit organizations and local grant makers in order to secure the maximum federal, state, and national foundation dollars for the city Detroit.
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.
To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
To inspire a community of active engagement, personal responsibility and hope by connecting people to opportunities and resources to transform the quality of life for all Detroiters.
Promotion of activities to spur economic growth and revitalization in the city of detroit
Michigan Family Resources mission is to deliver holistic family-centered services to children that promote their well-being and development.
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southwest Counseling Solutions and the most unlike its peers is Men. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
582 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. 582 of the 799 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S ↗
- Who funds FII - NATIONAL ↗
- Who funds MATRIX HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds POVERTY AND SOCIAL REFORM INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Wayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY HOUSING COALITION ↗
- Who funds LAHC - LEADERS ADVANCING AND HELPING COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN-WRIGHT SETTLEMENTS INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH OAKLAND SHELTER ↗
- Who funds FOCUSHOPE ↗
- Who funds SER METRO DETROIT JOBS FOR PROGRESS INC ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND LIVINGSTON HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY ↗
- Who funds MACOMB FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Child Care Network ↗
- Who funds National Kidney Foundation of Michigan Inc ↗
- Who funds Accounting Aid Society ↗
- Who funds DETROIT CHILDREN'S FUND ↗
- Who funds CENTERS FOR FAMILY DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit ↗
- Who funds CARE OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Michigan Association of United Ways Inc ↗
- Who funds WAYNE COUNTY NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds DETROIT EMPLOYMENT SOLUTIONS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST ECONOMIC SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Paws With A Cause ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
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: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Skillman Foundation · Dte Energy Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · McGregor Fund · Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · Ethel and James Flinn Foundation · Comerica Charitable Foundation · The Carls Foundation · The Jewish Fund · United Way of Washtenaw County
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 United Way for Southeastern Michigan 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.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
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.