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United Way of Bay County

To bring our community together to impact lives.

$511k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$85k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$1.2MYouth Development$422kHousing & Shelter$168kEducation$157kFood & Nutrition$134kCommunity Improvement$122kEmployment$104kPublic Safety & Disaster$75kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 18 grants below total $495,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $511,260 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $16,260 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 $10k4 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $330k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $135k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
BAY COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$10,000
NEW DIMENSIONS$10,000
DOW BAY AREA FAMILY YMCA$8,487
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%HIDDEN HARVEST: $20k → 18%HIDDEN HARVEST: $20k → 18%HIDDEN HARVEST: $38k → 18%HIDDEN HARVEST: $28k → 18%HIDDEN HARVEST: $28k → 18%YWCA GREAT LAKES BAY REGION: $20k → 14%YWCA GREAT LAKES BAY REGION: $10k → 14%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.
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 17 repeat orgs$29k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
1

Total granted

$2.4M
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+94%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesEmploymentHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementHealthOther
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

  • BA
    BAY AREA WOMEN'S CENTER
    5× · 2020–2024 · $605k · revenue +28%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE GREAT LAKES BAY REGION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $347k · revenue +102%
  • CC
    CAN COUNCIL GREAT LAKES BAY REGION BAY COUNTY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $195k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • MM
    MID MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $23k · revenue +94%
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
Can Council Great Lakes Bay Region Huron County

We are building communities where children are free from abuse and neglect through prevention, intervention, and advocacy efforts.

Crime & Legal
2
Great Lakes Bay Health Centers

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.

Health
3
Bay Future Inc

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.

Community Improvement
4
Lakeshore Legal Aid

Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.

Crime & Legal
5
Michigan Family Resources

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

Education
6
Bay Human Services

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…

Human Services
7
Bay Area Community Services Housing Corp

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.

Housing & Shelter
8
Bay Area Rehabilitation Center

Outpatient rehabilitation

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9
United Way of Marquette County

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…

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10
Bay Area American Indian Council

Advocacy and counseling

Human Services
11
Boys and Girls Club of Bay County Foundation Inc

To receive and administer funds for charitable purposes in support of the programs at the boys and girls club of the great lakes bay region.

Youth Development
12
Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County

Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County D/B/A Catholic Charities Washtenaw County provides diverse, holistic social services including adoption and pregnancy counseling, food and basic needs assistance, domestic and child abuse…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bay Area Women's Center; 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.
04the grantee network

19 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
16/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BAY AREA WOMEN'S CENTER: $605,000 · OtherBAY AREA WOMEN'S CENTERBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE GREAT LAKES BAY REGION: $347,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE GREAT LAKES BAY REGIONCAN COUNCIL GREAT LAKES BAY REGION BAY COUNTY: $195,312 · OtherCAN COUNCIL GREAT LAKES BAY REGION BAY COUNTYBAY COUNTY CHILD & SENIOR CITIZEN CENTER INC: $162,005 · OtherBAY COUNTY CHILD & SENIOR CITIZEN CENTER INCCATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICE: $125,000 · OtherCATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICEBAY COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $80,000 · OtherBig Brothers Big Sisters of the Great Lakes Bay Region: $75,000 · OtherDOW BAY AREA FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $71,477 · Other+1 more: $22,500 · OtherLITERACY COUNCIL OF BAY COUNTY INC: $157,140 · EducationLITERACY …Legacy Center for Community Success: $35,500 · EducationLegacy Ce…HIDDEN HARVEST: $134,180 · Human ServicesYWCA GREAT LAKES BAY REGION: $29,500 · Human ServicesRescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan: $140,000 · Housing & Shelter211 Northeast Michigan: $121,500 · Community ImprovementNEW DIMENSIONS INC: $41,000 · EmploymentDO-ALL INCORPORATED: $6,873 · EmploymentSACRED HEART REHABILITATION CENTER INC: $42,000 · HealthSTUDIO 23: $20,925 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,683,294Education$192,640Human Services$163,680Housing & Shelter$140,000Community Improvement$121,500Employment$47,873Health$42,000Arts & Culture$20,925

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

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
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.

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 Fo…Consumers Energy Foun…The Kantzler Foundati…Russell H & Maxine E …Midland Area Communit…Richard Barton Law Me…Alden and Vada Dow Fu…Harry a and Margaret …United Way of Saginaw…United Way of Midland…Tri-Star Charitable F…Nickless Family Chari…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization United Way of Bay County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Bay County. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 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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