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United Way of Bay County

To bring our community together to impact lives. The UNITED WAY OF BAY COUNTY will produce efficient and effective outcomes for people in our community by assessing gaps in human services and collaborating with community impact partners to address those gaps. As we develop resources in and for the community, we will proactively secure…

$511k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
18
Itemized grants FY2024
16
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$495k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$85,000
Organizations funded a year
13 to 17
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$3.2M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations United Way of Bay County funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving18$495k6%
FY202316$491k0%
FY202216$491k6%
FY202113$438k0%
FY202017$497kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$1.2MYouth Development$422kHousing & Shelter$168kEducation$157kFood & Nutrition$134kCommunity Improvement$122kEmployment$104kPublic Safety & Disaster$75kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 19 grantees

Where it is load-bearing

United Way of Bay County supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBay Area Women's Center: $605,000 over 5y, 8.3% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of the Great Lakes Bay Region: $347,000 over 5y, 8.3% of budgetCan Council Great Lakes Bay Region Bay County: $195,312 over 5y, 16% of budgetBay County Child & Senior Citizen Center Inc: $162,005 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetLiteracy Council of Bay County Inc: $157,140 over 5y, 58% of budgetRescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan: $140,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetHidden Harvest: $134,180 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCatholic Family Service: $125,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budget211 Northeast Michigan: $121,500 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetBay County Habitat for Humanity Inc: $80,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of the Great Lakes Bay Region: $75,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetDow Bay Area Family Young Men's Christian Association: $71,477 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetSacred Heart Rehabilitation Center Inc: $42,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNew Dimensions Inc: $41,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetLegacy Center for Community Success: $35,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetYWCA Great Lakes Bay Region: $29,500 over 2y, 10% of budgetMid Michigan Community Action Agency Inc: $22,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetStudio 23: $20,925 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetDo-All Incorporated: $6,873 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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.

Bay Area Community FoundationMI36.8× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bay Area Community Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Kantzler Foundation · Russell H & Maxine E Smith Charitable Foundation · Midland Area Community Foundation · Richard Barton Law Memorial Trust · Alden and Vada Dow Fund · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · United Way of Saginaw County · United Way of Midland County · Tri-Star Charitable Foundation · Nickless Family Charitable Foundation

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.

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About United Way of Bay County

How much does United Way of Bay County give?
United Way of Bay County reported 18 itemized grants totaling $495,000, out of $511,260 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 17 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does United Way of Bay County fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (49%), Youth Development (17%), Housing & Shelter (7%).
Who are United Way of Bay County's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Bay Area Women's Center ($605k), Boys & Girls Clubs of the Great Lakes Bay Region ($347k), Can Council Great Lakes Bay Region Bay County ($195k).
Does United Way of Bay County fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Bay County?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bay Area Community Foundation, Consumers Energy Foundation, The Kantzler Foundation.
Where is United Way of Bay County based?
United Way of Bay County is based in MI.

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 19 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.

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