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· Public charity
UNITED WAY OF CLARE COUNTY
To represent and to serve the overall interests of the citizens of clare and gladwin counties in matters concerning individuals and community health and social well being.
$188k
Granted FY2022
7
Grants
1
Communities
$17k
Largest
01What you fund
0161% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2022.
Human Services$168kCrime & Legal$64kHealth$60kEmployment$33kOther$206k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
proudhistoryimpactedalcoholdrugspassionateothers
2020
healingproudhistoryimpactedalcoholdrugspassionate
2021
advocacyhealing
2022
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2022 · 7 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k3 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
$10,395
Median grant
1
States reached
$392k
Total assets
Largest grants
- LISTENING EAR$16,600
- MID MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY$15,027
- MID MICHIGAN INDUSTRIES$13,000
- MID MICHIGAN BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS$10,395
- SHELTERHOUSE OF MIDLAND AND GLADWIN COUNTIES$7,993
- WOMEN'S AID SERVICES INC$6,800
- CLARE GLADWIN GREAT START COLLABORATIVE$5,112
02The need
04
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY18–22, $93k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 16%. 81% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$530k · 10 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else
10 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2022, 3 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
10
0
Total granted
$530k
$0
Still filing today
80%
0%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesCrime & LegalHealthEmploymentOther
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
- MMMID MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY7× · 2018–2025 · $174k · revenue +106%
- MMMID MICHIGAN BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS7× · 2018–2025 · $75k · revenue +283%
- LELISTENING EAR7× · 2018–2025 · $75k · revenue +16%
Funded once
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Midland County Child Protection Council
To prevent child abuse and neglect and improve the quality of life for children and families.
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2
Mymichigan Medical Center Midland
Creating healthy communities together by providing excellent health services to improve the quality of life for people in our communities.
Health
3
Michigan Center of Accountability for Republicans
Social welfare and issue advocacy
Civil Rights
4
Heart of West Michigan United Way
To impact lives in west michigan by energizing and inspiring people and organizations to make a difference through donations and volunteerism. the most significant activity is raising funds so agency providers and internal programs can…
Philanthropy
5
Mymichigan Health
Creating healthy communities together by providing excellent health services to improve the quality of life for our communities.
Health
6
Michigan Nonprofit Association
The mission of mna is to serve nonprofits to advance their missions
Unclassified
7
Mid-Michigan Children's Museum
To provide a hands-on environment that engages children to use their curiosity and creativity while learning about the wonders of our world.
Arts & Culture
8
Northeast Michigan Center
The organization promotes public awareness, education, & participation in the arts through the operation of a regional fine arts center.
Arts & Culture
9
Michigan Animal Adoption
Animal adoptions; low cost spay/neutering in low income areas. animal care network (acn).
Animals
10
Michigan Community Capital
The mission of michigan community capital is to provide low-cost, flexible financial products coupled with advisory services to create and preserve affordable housing and invest in job-creating, community-driven economic development…
Community Improvement
11
Midland County Cancer Society
To provide personal and compassionate support to cancer patients and their caregivers in our community.
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12
The Childrens Advocacy Centers of
Our mission is to unify and strengthen michigan's response to child victims of abuse through sustainable growth, collaboration, and empowerment of children's advocacy centers (cacs). our vision is that all of michigan's children will have…
Crime & Legal
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid Michigan Big Brothers Big Sisters and the most unlike its peers is Girls on the Run of Central Michigan. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
7/13
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$205,952Human Services$168,093Crime & Legal$63,545Health$59,673Employment$32,650
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 MID MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY ↗
- Who funds MID MICHIGAN BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ↗
- Who funds LISTENING EAR ↗
- Who funds TEN SIXTEEN RECOVERY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S AID SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MID MICHIGAN INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN MICHIGAN MOBILE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN OF CENTRAL MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds SHELTERHOUSE OF MIDLAND AND GLADWIN COUNTIES ↗
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.
Midland Area Community FoundationMI20.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Midland Area Community Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 organisation UNITED WAY OF CLARE 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MID MICHIGAN BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~15 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.8× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 382061743 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on MID MICHIGAN BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 15 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 9% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to United Way of Clare County?
Find your warmest path to United Way of Clare County through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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