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United Way for Southeastern Michigan at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

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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.

$72M
Granted FY2024still arriving
397
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$10M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$63MEducation$48MCommunity Improvement$24MHealth$20MHousing & Shelter$16MYouth Development$11MPhilanthropy$9.5MFood & Nutrition$9.1MOther$0
02FY2024 · 397 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 397 grants below total $52,618,992, the rows itemized in this filing. The $72,098,753 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $19,479,761 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k35 grants · $253k
  • $10k–50k189 grants · $4.8M
  • $50k–250k139 grants · $14M
  • $250k+34 grants · $34M
$40,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$60M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY17–24, $53.8M) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $1.5M → 22%TRUENORTH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $340k → 13%KENS KREW: $305k → 17%FII-NATIONAL: $5.0M → 10%FAMILY INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE: $350k → 10%CHILD CARE NETWORK WASHTENAW 4 C: $984k → 14%CHILD CARE NETWORK WASHTENAW 4 C: $860k → 14%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $291k → 8%Paws With A Cause: $285k → 8%EASTER SEALS - MICHIGAN INC: $520k → 8%SAMARITAS: $538k → 21%SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN SENIOR REGIONAL COLLABORATIVE: $390k → 21%JSL (JEWISH SENIOR LIFE) FOUNDATION: $551k → 8%Jewish Family Service of Metropolitan Detroit: $349k → 8%OAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $829k → 8%OAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $731k → 8%OAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $600k → 8%Oakland Family Services: $589k → 8%SOUTHWEST ECONOMIC SOLUTIONS: $591k → 21%SOUTHWEST ECONOMIC SOLUTIONS: $297k → 21%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $454k → 21%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $377k → 21%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $346k → 21%OAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $1.2M → 8%Starfish Family Services: $798k → 21%STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES: $662k → 21%STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES: $474k → 21%STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES: $373k → 21%DIVERSIFIED COMMUNITY SERVICES: $458k → 8%ARAB AMERICAN & CHALDEAN COUNCIL: $699k → 8%FOCUS HOPE: $715k → 21%FOCUS HOPE: $679k → 21%THE YUNION INC: $620k → 21%FOCUS HOPE: $285k → 21%DETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC: $450k → 21%CHILDREN'S CENTER OF WAYNE COUNTY INC: $280k → 21%ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECON & SOCIAL SCVS: $2.2M → 21%ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECON & SOCIAL SCVS: $1.5M → 21%ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECON & SOCIAL SCVS: $1.4M → 21%ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECON & SOCIAL SCVS: $936k → 21%ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECON & SOCIAL SCVS: $929k → 21%ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECON & SOCIAL SCVS: $691k → 21%ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC & SOCIAL SERVICES ACCESS: $560k → 21%MEN LLC: $500k → 21%PEOPLE'S COMMUNITY SERVICES: $482k → 21%PEOPLE'S COMMUNITY SERVICES: $435k → 21%OAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $478k → 21%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF SE MICHIGAN: $297k → 21%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
TN
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$183M · 354 repeat orgs$35M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

354
298

Total granted

$183M
$17M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+15%

Still filing today

82%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • FII - NATIONAL
    5× · 2017–2021 · $5.7M · revenue +81%
  • MH
    MATRIX HUMAN SERVICES
    8× · 2017–2025 · $4.7M · revenue +47%
  • OF
    OAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES
    8× · 2017–2025 · $4.5M · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • DC
    DETROIT CHILDREN'S FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $2.0M · revenue -46% · 27% of their budget
  • Michigan Association of United Ways Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $1.7M · revenue -92% · 50% of their budget
  • SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1.5M · revenue +212%
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
Business Leaders for Michigan

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.…

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2
Brilliant Detroit

Helping families and neighborhoods succeed by providing a place and support to assure kids ages 0-5 are school ready and families are healthy and stable.

Youth Development
3
Connect Detroit

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.

Community Improvement
4
Lincoln Behavioral Services

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…

Health
5
Arise Detroit

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.

Community Improvement
6
Michigan Assoc of Community Mental Health Boards

Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.

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7
Detroit Historical Society

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.

Arts & Culture
8
Michigan Family Resources

Michigan Family Resources mission is to deliver holistic family-centered services to children that promote their well-being and development.

Education
9
Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

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.…

Community Improvement
10
Local Circles

Local circles offers young detroiters an employment opportunity in youth- led research. by employing youth to do research, local circles intervenes on two simultaneous social issues facing young detroiters today: youth unemployment and…

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11
Detroit Economic Growth Corporation

Promotion of activities to spur economic growth and revitalization in the city of detroit

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12
Diploma Equity Project

The organization works with k-12, higher education and other community partners to design and implement programs to improve rates of college persistence and completion.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Development Centers Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

654 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. 654 of the 799 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.

48
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
161
Early backer (in before they grew)
624/654
Grantees still filing
377/654
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS COMMUNITY DISTRICT: $10,082,472 · OtherDETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS COMMUNITY DISTRICTDEARBORN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $7,199,845 · OtherDEARBORN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICTMATRIX HUMAN SERVICES: $4,676,731 · OtherGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $4,119,193 · OtherLAHC - LEADERS ADVANCING AND HELPING COMMUNITIES: $3,300,000 · OtherPOVERTY AND SOCIAL REFORM INSTITUTE: $4,347,998 · Other+90 more: $62,679,434 · Other+90 moreARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S: $8,291,245 · Human ServicesARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECO…FII - NATIONAL: $5,689,124 · Human ServicesFII - NATIONALOAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $4,522,859 · Human ServicesOAKLAND FAMILY SERVICESSTARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $2,714,092 · Human ServicesFOCUSHOPE: $2,402,483 · Human ServicesOAKLAND LIVINGSTON HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY: $2,170,088 · Human ServicesChild Care Network: $2,157,974 · Human ServicesYMCA of Metropolitan Detroit: $1,815,704 · Human Services+35 more: $21,836,462 · Human Services+35 moreNational Kidney Foundation of Michigan Inc: $2,025,927 · HealthCARE OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $1,787,167 · HealthBARBARA ANN KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE: $1,144,127 · HealthSOUTHWEST COUNSELING SOLUTIONS: $1,075,902 · HealthCHILDREN'S LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN: $675,526 · HealthLEGACY CHM: $653,505 · HealthHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $645,270 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association: $564,604 · HealthBEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $522,510 · HealthOakland Integrated Healthcare Network: $435,515 · HealthDEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC: $396,119 · Health+5 more: $1,572,692 · HealthUNITED COMMUNITY HOUSING COALITION: $3,701,344 · Housing & ShelterSOUTH OAKLAND SHELTER: $2,425,395 · Housing & ShelterALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS: $1,386,578 · Housing & ShelterCOTS: $1,027,913 · Housing & ShelterEcoWorks: $460,604 · Housing & Shelter+3 more: $728,265 · Housing & ShelterDETROIT CHILDREN'S FUND: $1,959,849 · PhilanthropyMichigan Association of United Ways Inc: $1,707,748 · PhilanthropyTHE FORUM FOR YOUTH INVESTMENT: $1,101,936 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF MONROELENAWEE COUNTIES INC: $745,983 · PhilanthropyTHE DETROIT ASSOC OF BLACK ORG: $682,569 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT: $676,000 · PhilanthropyLIVINGSTON COUNTY UNITED WAY: $490,492 · PhilanthropyPLYMOUTH COMMUNITY UNITED WAY: $362,024 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF ST CLAIR COUNTY: $349,408 · Philanthropy+5 more: $1,195,530 · PhilanthropyWayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc: $4,062,796 · Community ImprovementAccounting Aid Society: $2,000,169 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY HOUSING NETWORK INC: $1,055,026 · Community ImprovementNONPROFIT FINANCE FUND: $706,250 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR SUCCESS NETWORK: $498,500 · Community ImprovementDOING DEVELOPMENT DIFFERENTLY IN METRO DETROIT (D4) COALITION INC: $355,618 · Community ImprovementDETROIT HISPANIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $325,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $250,000 · Community ImprovementDETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $1,819,706 · EducationCONNECTED THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR COLLEGE AND CAREER: $1,202,401 · EducationWINNING FUTURES: $576,095 · EducationDETROIT 90 90: $542,200 · EducationMICHIGAN COLLEGE ACCESS NETWORK: $523,000 · EducationPARENT REVOLUTION INC: $462,230 · EducationDETROIT FOOD & ENTREPRENEURSHIP ACADEMY: $444,801 · EducationTeach for America Inc: $379,000 · Education482 FORWARD: $325,976 · EducationBLACK MALE EDUCATORS ALLIANCE: $300,000 · EducationCommunity Education Commission: $270,000 · EducationJourni Incorporated: $267,724 · Education+3 more: $625,245 · Education
Other$96,405,673Human Services$51,600,031Health$11,498,864Housing & Shelter$9,730,099Philanthropy$9,271,539Community Improvement$9,253,359Education$7,738,378

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S: $8,291,245 over 9y, 5.0% of budgetFII - NATIONAL: $5,689,124 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetMATRIX HUMAN SERVICES: $4,676,731 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetOAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $4,522,859 over 8y, 8.5% of budgetPOVERTY AND SOCIAL REFORM INSTITUTE: $4,347,998 over 8y, 92% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $4,119,193 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetWayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc: $4,062,796 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY HOUSING COALITION: $3,701,344 over 8y, 12% of budgetLAHC - LEADERS ADVANCING AND HELPING COMMUNITIES: $3,300,000 over 5y, 67% of budgetFRANKLIN-WRIGHT SETTLEMENTS INC: $2,822,064 over 8y, 15% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN: $2,772,559 over 9y, 7.0% of budgetSTARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $2,714,092 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $2,706,388 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetSOUTH OAKLAND SHELTER: $2,425,395 over 8y, 19% of budgetFOCUSHOPE: $2,402,483 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetSER METRO DETROIT JOBS FOR PROGRESS INC: $2,175,417 over 8y, 11% of budgetOAKLAND LIVINGSTON HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY: $2,170,088 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetMACOMB FAMILY SERVICES INC: $2,168,803 over 8y, 14% of budgetChild Care Network: $2,157,974 over 5y, 35% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation of Michigan Inc: $2,025,927 over 8y, 7.4% of budgetAccounting Aid Society: $2,000,169 over 8y, 22% of budgetDETROIT CHILDREN'S FUND: $1,959,849 over 1y, 27% of budgetCENTERS FOR FAMILY DEVELOPMENT INC: $1,931,457 over 9y, 3.4% of budgetDETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $1,819,706 over 9y, 19% of budgetYMCA of Metropolitan Detroit: $1,815,704 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetCARE OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $1,787,167 over 7y, 9.0% of budgetMichigan Association of United Ways Inc: $1,707,748 over 1y, 50% of budgetWAYNE COUNTY NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES: $1,683,852 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetSPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $1,500,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetDETROIT EMPLOYMENT SOLUTIONS CORPORATION: $1,431,251 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS: $1,386,578 over 8y, 7.1% of budgetSOUTHWEST ECONOMIC SOLUTIONS INC: $1,381,531 over 8y, 14% of budgetPaws With A Cause: $1,377,423 over 8y, 7.3% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $1,347,760 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetHAVEN INC: $1,235,997 over 9y, 7.7% of budgetCONNECTED THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR COLLEGE AND CAREER: $1,202,401 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetDIVERSIFIED COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1,186,470 over 6y, 60% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $1,182,768 over 9y, 6.2% of budgetBARBARA ANN KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE: $1,144,127 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD SERVICE ORGANIZATION: $1,125,894 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetTHE FORUM FOR YOUTH INVESTMENT: $1,101,936 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetARAB AMERICAN AND CHALDEAN COUNCIL: $1,095,683 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $1,076,600 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHWEST COUNSELING SOLUTIONS: $1,075,902 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WASHTENAW COUNTY: $1,063,545 over 7y, 27% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOUSING NETWORK INC: $1,055,026 over 6y, 4.7% of budgetCOTS: $1,027,913 over 9y, 5.8% of budgetWAYNE CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE ACCESS PROGR AM INC: $1,017,550 over 4y, 45% 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 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 ↗

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.

Community Foundation …The Skillman Foundati…DTE Energy FoundationMichigan Health Endow…McGregor FundChildren's Hospital o…Ford PhilanthropyEthel and James Flinn…Comerica Charitable F…The Carls FoundationThe Jewish FundUnited Way of Washten…
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI173.9× affinity262 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 United Way for Southeastern Michigan funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way for Southeastern Michigan. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
54report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 799 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $92M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home