· Public charity
United Way of Bay County
To bring our community together to impact lives.
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.
The 18 grants below total $495,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $511,260 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $16,260 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 $10k4 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $330k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BAY AREA WOMEN'S CENTER | $85,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE GLB REG | $50,000 |
| BAY COUNTY CHILD & SENIOR CENTER | $48,915 |
| CAN COUNCIL GLB REGION | $45,000 |
| CATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICE | $40,000 |
| RESCUE MINISTRIES OF MID-MICHIGAN | $40,000 |
| HIDDEN HARVEST | $37,750 |
| LITERACY COUNCIL OF BAY COUNTY | $36,000 |
| YWCA GREAT LAKES BAY REGION | $20,000 |
| SACRED HEART REHABILITATION SERVICE | $15,000 |
| BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS GLB REGION | $15,000 |
| 211 NORTHEAST MICHIGAN | $12,500 |
| NEW DIMENSIONS | $10,000 |
| BAY COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $10,000 |
| DOW BAY AREA FAMILY YMCA | $8,487 |
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 (FY20–24, $164k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- BABAY AREA WOMEN'S CENTER5× · 2020–2024 · $605k · revenue +28%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE GREAT LAKES BAY REGION5× · 2020–2024 · $347k · revenue +102%
- CCCAN COUNCIL GREAT LAKES BAY REGION BAY COUNTY5× · 2020–2024 · $195k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- MMMID MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $23k · revenue +78%
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.
Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.
Dedicated to facilitating economic development strategies that promote and secure opportunities for business retention, growth, and the attraction of new industries that create quality jobs for community residents.
We are building communities where children are free from abuse and neglect through prevention, intervention, and advocacy efforts.
The mission of great lakes community action partnership is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.
Michigan Family Resources mission is to deliver holistic family-centered services to children that promote their well-being and development.
To provide specialized residential services to mentally ill and disabled individuals in order to assist each person to meet personal goals by providing the highest quality services that are unique to each person's wishes, needs, and…
To provide high quality health care to individuals and community groups in Saginaw, Bay, and other nearby counties. Services are provided without regard to race, beliefs or ability to pay.
Advocacy and counseling
Focusing community resources to meet community needs the United Way of Marquette County works to advance the common good by connecting people with health and human care issues they are concerned about and to provide the oversight the…
Outpatient rehabilitation
Improve the quality of life for individuals in Alameda County, Contra Costa County, Solano County, Monterey County, Sacramento County and the surrounding area in the State of California.
None
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bay Area Women's Center and the most unlike its peers is Sacred Heart Rehabilitation Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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.
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 BAY AREA WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE GREAT LAKES BAY REGION ↗
- Who funds CAN COUNCIL GREAT LAKES BAY REGION BAY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BAY COUNTY CHILD & SENIOR CITIZEN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY COUNCIL OF BAY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Rescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan ↗
- Who funds HIDDEN HARVEST ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds 211 Northeast Michigan ↗
- Who funds BAY COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Great Lakes Bay Region ↗
- Who funds DOW BAY AREA FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART REHABILITATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW DIMENSIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Legacy Center for Community Success ↗
- Who funds YWCA GREAT LAKES BAY REGION ↗
- Who funds MID MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds STUDIO 23 ↗
- Who funds DO-ALL INCORPORATED ↗
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: 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
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 of Bay County 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.