· Public charity
United Way of Clare County
Responsible volunteers enhancing the opportunity for the people of clare and gladwin counties to care for one another.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $97,840 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $786,207 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $688,367 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 $10k7 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $48k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHELTERHOUSE OF MIDLAND AND GLADWIN COUNTIES | $18,649 |
| LISTENING EAR | $16,000 |
| MID MICHIGAN INDUSTRIES | $13,027 |
| FOOD BANK OF EASTERN MICHIGAN | $9,000 |
| MID MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY | $8,698 |
| TEN SIXTEEN RECOVERY NETWORK | $8,094 |
| WOMEN'S AID SERVICES INC | $7,544 |
| 2-1-1 NORTHEAST MICHIGAN | $5,900 |
| MID MICHIGAN BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $5,628 |
| CLARE GLADWIN GREAT START COLLABORATIVE | $5,300 |
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 (FY17–24, $132k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 73% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- MMMID MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $200k · revenue +121%
- CCCRISIS CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $105k · revenue +32%
- MMMID MICHIGAN BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS9× · 2017–2025 · $96k · revenue +191%
Funded once
- FBFood Bank of Eastern Michigan2× · 2024–2025 · $9k · revenue -3%
- 2N211 Northeast Michiganone grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue 0%
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.
To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.
To assist people with low or moderate income to obtain safe and affordable housing
To provide personal and compassionate support to cancer patients and their caregivers in our community.
To provide housing and case management services for the homeless and mentally ill within the community.
Our mission is to assist our affiliates to increase capacity to build simple decent homes in partnership with people in need in the State of Michigan.
Provide free legal assistance to indigent and low income persons
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
To operate a network of food pantries to provide food to those in need.
Michigan Family Resources mission is to deliver holistic family-centered services to children that promote their well-being and development.
To help provide safe, accessible, and affordable housing in Northwest Michigan.
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…
Through internal expertise, external partnerships, and advocacy, the area agency on aging of western michigan provides older adults, adults with disabilities, and their caregivers equitable access to services that promote independence and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid Michigan Community Action Agency Inc 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.
14 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 MID MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MID MICHIGAN BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ↗
- Who funds TEN SIXTEEN RECOVERY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S AID SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds MID-MICHIGAN INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT ↗
- Who funds Northern MI Mobile Child Advocacy Center ↗
- Who funds Girls on the Run of Central Michigan ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of Eastern Michigan ↗
- Who funds 211 Northeast Michigan ↗
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: Midland Area Community Foundation · The Herbert H & Grace a Dow Foundation · United Way of Midland County · United Way of Greater Central Michigan · Mt Pleasant Area Community Fnd · Rollin M Gerstacker Foundation · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · Consumers Energy 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 organization 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.
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.