· Public charity
United Way of Genesee County
Build financial resources that enable investments in education, financial stability, health and basic needs addressing genesee county and surrounding areas most pressing challenges while building community-wide vitality.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 34 grants below total $933,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,173,294 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $239,794 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 · FY2023
- Under $10k5 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $520k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $380k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VOICES FOR CHILDREN | $85,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SHIAWASSEE | $81,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER FLINT | $80,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS - EAST CENTRAL | $70,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF FLINT | $64,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA MICHIGAN | $40,000 |
| FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY | $40,000 |
| SHELTER OF FLINT INC | $34,000 |
| FENTON AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $29,000 |
| GRAND BLANC PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $28,000 |
| VALLEY AREA AGENCY ON AGING | $27,000 |
| YWCA OF GREATER FLINT | $26,000 |
| GREATER FLINT HEALTH COALITION | $25,000 |
| GENESEE HEALTH PLAN | $25,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHEASTERN | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 96% 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 +36% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2023, 11 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $123k 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
- FSFAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF MID MICHIG7× · 2017–2023 · $545k · revenue +4%
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER FLINT7× · 2017–2023 · $513k · revenue +93%- VFVOICES FOR CHILDREN ADVOCACY7× · 2017–2023 · $504k · revenue +534%
Funded once
- BSBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICAone grant, 2017 · $39k · revenue +24%
- 7J7TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COURT - FAMILY DIVISIONone grant, 2018 · $25k
- LSLegal Services of Eastern Michigangraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +127%
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 promote the common economic interests of all the commercial enterprises in the Genesee County, Michigan community. The Organization strives to enhance the business climate in the area and advocates for public policy that supports…
Advocate for people in recovery & provides holistic options for those recovering from substance use disorder, codependency & trauma.
Child and Family Service of Saginaw County is a social work agency dedicated to enhancing the quality of life in our community by fostering personal growth, emotional development, recovery from trauma, self- reliance, and healthy…
Michigan Family Resources mission is to deliver holistic family-centered services to children that promote their well-being and development.
To help women, men, and children live without fear of violence within their home.
Leading the way in promoting healthy family living by reaching out to underserved populations and those who are in our community.
The mission of the Center for Family Health is opening the door to health care for all.
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…
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…
Greater Detroit Community Outreach Center is a community based nonprofit organization designed to help prevent teen parenthood among school age youth. The center has a staff of outreach representatives who go into the homes with children…
Emergency assistance in the form of food, utilities, rent, etc.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Shiawassee and Genesee Counties and the most unlike its peers is Genesee County Educational Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
42 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. 42 of the 63 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
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 SHELTER OF FLINT INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF MID MICHIG ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SHIAWASSEE AND GENESEE COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER FLINT ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR CHILDREN ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF FLINT AND GENESEE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF GREATER FLINT ↗
- Who funds Michigan Crossroads Council Inc Boy Scouts of America ↗
- Who funds LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Valley Area Agency on Aging ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Genesee Area Focus Fund ↗
- Who funds Metro Community DevelopmentInc ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Greater Flint ↗
- Who funds REACH RESOURCE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Genesee County Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds THE CRIM FITNESS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MADE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds CLIO AREA HUMAN SERVICES FUND ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of Eastern Michigan ↗
- Who funds COMMUNICATION ACCESS CENTER FOR THE DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING INC ↗
- Who funds RELIEF AFTER VIOLENT ENCOUNTER ↗
- Who funds Legal Services of Eastern Michigan ↗
- Who funds Genesee Health Plan ↗
- Who funds GREATER FLINT HEALTH COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds GENESEE COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
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: Community Foundation of Greater Flint · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Ruth Mott Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Stella & Frederick Loeb Charitable Trust · Foundation for Flint · The Serra Foundation · The Williamson Foundation Inc · Nartel Family Foundation · The Hagerman Foundation · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Merkley Charitable Trust
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 Genesee 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.