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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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2023
34
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$85k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Human Services$1.7MYouth Development$1.6MEducation$842kHousing & Shelter$782kPublic Safety & Disaster$747kCrime & Legal$582kFood & Nutrition$254kCommunity Improvement$211kOther$0
02FY2023 · 34 grants

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
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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 (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.

area typical 13%RELIEF AFTER VIOLENT ENCOUNTER: $6k → 9%SHIAWASSEE FAMILY YMCA: $8k → 12%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS OF MID-MICHIGAN: $9k → 16%RELIEF AFTER VIOLENT ENCOUNTER: $6k → 9%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS OF MID-MICHIGAN: $7k → 16%RELIEF AFTER VIOLENT ENCOUNTER: $6k → 9%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS OF MID-MICHIGAN: $7k → 16%RELIEF AFTER VIOLENT ENCOUNTER: $6k → 9%RELIEF AFTER VIOLENT ENCOUNTER: $6k → 9%FENTON CENTER OF HOPE: $15k → 5%FENTON AREA RESOURCE & REFERRAL: $7k → 5%VOCATIONAL INDEPENDENCE PROGRAM: $8k → 16%FRANKLIN AVENUE MISSION: $8k → 16%YWCA OF GREATER FLINT: $73k → 16%YWCA OF GREATER FLINT: $67k → 16%YWCA OF GREATER FLINT: $64k → 16%YWCA OF GREATER FLINT: $63k → 16%YWCA OF GREATER FLINT: $50k → 16%YWCA: $42k → 16%YWCA OF GREATER FLINT: $26k → 16%GENESEE COUNTY YOUTH CORPORATION: $25k → 16%GENESEE COUNTY YOUTH CORPORATION: $25k → 16%GENESEE COUNTY YOUTH CORP: $25k → 16%GENESEE COUNTY YOUTH CORPORATION: $15k → 16%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY: $131k → 16%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY: $99k → 16%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY: $88k → 16%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY: $85k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS - EAST CENTRAL BAY CHAPTER: $77k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $75k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS - EAST CENTRAL BAY CHAPTER: $73k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS - EAST CENTRAL: $70k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS - EAST CENTRAL: $70k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS - EAST CENTRAL BAY CHAPTER: $65k → 16%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY: $60k → 16%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY: $42k → 16%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY: $40k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS - EAST CENTRAL BAY CHAPTER: $10k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.6M · 37 repeat orgs$402k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
18

Total granted

$6.6M
$279k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+7%

Still filing today

70%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $123k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementHealthFood & NutritionOther

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

  • FS
    FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF MID MICHIG
    7× · 2017–2023 · $545k · revenue +4%
  • BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER FLINT
    7× · 2017–2023 · $513k · revenue +93%
  • VF
    VOICES FOR CHILDREN ADVOCACY
    7× · 2017–2023 · $504k · revenue +534%

Funded once

  • BS
    BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2017 · $39k · revenue +24%
  • 7J
    7TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COURT - FAMILY DIVISION
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • LS
    Legal Services of Eastern Michigangraduated
    one 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.

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
Flint & Genesee Group

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…

Community Improvement
2
The Serenity House of Flint

Advocate for people in recovery & provides holistic options for those recovering from substance use disorder, codependency & trauma.

Human Services
3
Child Welfare Society of Flint
4
Child & Family Service of Saginaw

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…

Human Services
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
Flint Circuit Council On Family Violence Inc Dba Haven House

To help women, men, and children live without fear of violence within their home.

7
Family Outreach Center

Leading the way in promoting healthy family living by reaching out to underserved populations and those who are in our community.

8
Center for Family Health

The mission of the Center for Family Health is opening the door to health care for all.

Health
9
Lincoln Behavioral Services

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…

Health
10
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…

11
Greater Detroit Community Outreach Center inc

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…

Human Services
12
Mi Lewis Social Services

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr14%26%20–35yr14%30%35–55yr18%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%2%10–20yr14%31%20–35yr14%21%35–55yr18%45%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/62
the rest of the field
15%
385/2,555

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/42
Grantees still filing
29/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SHIAWASSEE AND GENESEE COUNTIES — $538,093 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SHIAWASSEE AND GENESEE…SALVATION ARMY — $284,638 · OtherSALVATION ARMYMichigan Crossroads Council Inc Boy Scouts of America — $213,977 · OtherMichigan Crossroads Council Inc Boy Scouts o…FENTON AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $189,000 · OtherFENTON AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLSLINDEN COMMUNITY SCHOOLS — $147,976 · OtherLINDEN COMMUNITY SCHOOLSGRAND BLANC COMMUNITY SCHOOLS — $143,225 · OtherValley Area Agency on Aging — $139,860 · OtherGenesee Area Focus Fund — $112,500 · OtherYMCA of Greater Flint — $95,000 · Other+28 more — $886,535 · Other+28 moreFAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF MID MICHIG — $544,695 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF …American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $462,638 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cro…YWCA OF GREATER FLINT — $384,350 · Human ServicesYWCA OF GREATER FLINTREACH RESOURCE SERVICES — $90,000 · Human ServicesREACH RESOURCE SERVICES+6 more — $75,088 · Human ServicesBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER FLINT — $513,089 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB …BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF FLINT AND GENESEE COUNTY — $474,777 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG S…GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $137,500 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF SOU…BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $39,018 · Youth DevelopmentVOICES FOR CHILDREN ADVOCACY — $504,338 · Crime & LegalVOICES FO…Legal Services of Eastern Michigan — $25,000 · Crime & LegalMY BROTHER'S KEEPER OF GENESEE COUNTY INC — $22,725 · Crime & Legal+2 more — $28,000 · Crime & LegalSHELTER OF FLINT INC — $560,575 · Housing & ShelterSHELTER O…LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION — $140,000 · Community ImprovementMetro Community DevelopmentInc — $106,250 · Community ImprovementTHE MADE INSTITUTE — $56,000 · Community ImprovementCLIO AREA HUMAN SERVICES FUND — $40,000 · Food & NutritionFood Bank of Eastern Michigan — $37,000 · Food & NutritionFlushing Christian Outreach Center — $15,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$2,750,804Human Services$1,556,771Youth Development$1,164,384Crime & Legal$580,063Housing & Shelter$560,575Community Improvement$302,250Food & Nutrition$92,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSHELTER OF FLINT INC — $560,575 over 7y, 5.7% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF MID MICHIG — $544,695 over 7y, 6.4% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SHIAWASSEE AND GENESEE COUNTIES — $538,093 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER FLINT — $513,089 over 7y, 5.6% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN ADVOCACY — $504,338 over 7y, 11% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF FLINT AND GENESEE COUNTY — $474,777 over 7y, 11% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $462,638 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA OF GREATER FLINT — $384,350 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetMichigan Crossroads Council Inc Boy Scouts of America — $213,977 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION — $140,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetValley Area Agency on Aging — $139,860 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $137,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetGenesee Area Focus Fund — $112,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMetro Community DevelopmentInc — $106,250 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetYMCA of Greater Flint — $95,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetREACH RESOURCE SERVICES — $90,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetGenesee County Habitat for Humanity — $80,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTHE CRIM FITNESS FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE MADE INSTITUTE — $56,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN INC — $51,625 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCLIO AREA HUMAN SERVICES FUND — $40,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $39,018 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFood Bank of Eastern Michigan — $37,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNICATION ACCESS CENTER FOR THE DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING INC — $31,725 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetRELIEF AFTER VIOLENT ENCOUNTER — $30,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetLegal Services of Eastern Michigan — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGenesee Health Plan — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER FLINT HEALTH COALITION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGENESEE COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $24,144 over 1y, 51% of budgetMY BROTHER'S KEEPER OF GENESEE COUNTY INC — $22,725 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetFaith Foundation Resources — $20,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetMOTHERLY INTERCESSION — $18,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetFENTON CENTER OF HOPE — $15,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetGRACE EMMANUEL BAPTIST CHURCH — $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFlint Cultural Center Corporation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRe-Connections Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetHURLEY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetShiawassee Family YMCA — $8,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetVOCATIONAL INDEPENDENCE PROGRAM INC — $7,838 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRANKLIN AVENUE MISSION INC — $7,500 over 1y, 2.7% of budget
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.

Community Foundation of Greater FlintMI72.8× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 63 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $1.2M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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