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United Way of Greater Central Michigan

United way provides leadership and resources to improve the quality of life in our community by generating revenue, creating awareness and engaging volunteers.

$925k
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$82k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Human Services$458kHealth$430kHousing & Shelter$414kYouth Development$408kCrime & Legal$407kArts & Culture$347kPhilanthropy$289kFood & Nutrition$126kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 32 grants below total $818,194 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $925,102 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $106,908 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $552k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $247k
$21,529
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILD ADVOCACY$81,903
GRATIOT COUNTY HISTORICAL AND GENIOLOGICAL SOCIETY$59,641
CENTRAL MICHIGAN YOUTH FOR CHRIST$54,617
CLOTHING INC$51,280
LIFE CHOICES OF CENTRAL MICHIGAN$44,962
THE CARE STORE$36,184
HOPEWELL RANCH$35,649
MT PLEASANT DISCOVERY MUSEUM$32,991
HUMANE ANIMAL TREATMENT SOCIETY$31,218
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MID-MICHIGAN$30,911
ART REACH OF MID MICHIGAN$28,830
GRATIOT COUNTY HOPE HOUSE$23,952
ISABELLA COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER$22,295
RISE ADVOCACY$21,968
COMMUNITY CANCER SERVICES$21,667
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 (FY20–25, $369k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%UNITED WAY OF CLARE & GLADWIN COUNTIES: $6k → 17%WEST MIDLAND FAMILY CENTER: $10k → 19%WEST MIDLAND FAMILY CENTER: $8k → 19%WEST MIDLAND FAMILY CENTER: $8k → 19%WEST MIDLAND FAMILY CENTER: $7k → 19%WEST MIDLAND FAMILY CENTER: $7k → 19%WEST MIDLAND FAMILY CENTER: $6k → 19%CLOTHING INC: $59k → 19%CLOTHING INC: $51k → 19%THE CARE STORE: $50k → 19%THE CARE STORE: $36k → 19%THE CARE STORE: $32k → 19%THE CARE STORE: $23k → 19%PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $20k → 19%CHILDRENS DISCOVERY ACADEMY: $15k → 12%CHILDRENS DISCOVERY ACADEMY: $10k → 12%THE CARE STORE: $9k → 19%CLOTHING INC: $8k → 19%THE CARE STORE: $5k → 19%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.
$3.0M · 37 repeat orgs$197k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +11% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.

37 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
13

Total granted

$3.0M
$135k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
-3%

Still filing today

78%
15%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther

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

  • GC
    GRATIOT COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $278k · revenue +72%
  • CM
    CENTRAL MICHIGAN YOUTH FOR CHRIST
    8× · 2018–2025 · $228k · revenue +30%
  • CC
    CRISIS CENTER INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $217k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • BF
    B4 FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $33k · revenue -29%
  • DP
    DOLLY PARTON IMAGINATION LIBRARY
    one grant, 2018 · $20k
  • P
    PEAK
    one grant, 2022 · $20k

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
Macomb County Chamber of Commerce

The organization's mission is to promote a healthy business climate for its members and all businesses in macomb county, michigan.

Unclassified
2
Midmichigan Health Services

To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.

Health
3
Mid Michigan Community Action Agency Inc

Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.

—
4
Midland County Food Assistance Network

To operate a network of food pantries to provide food to those in need.

—
5
Southwest Michigan Community Action Agency

Southwest michigan community action agency's purpose is to provide assistance to low income individuals in southwest michigan

Community Improvement
6
Morgan County Child Advocacy Center

To provide a safe caring place to evaluate any child who may have been abused

Crime & Legal
7
The Comfort Home Mi

Provide no cost care and no cost room and board for the terminally ill.

Human Services
8
Montcalm County Habitat for Humanity

The mission of Montcalm County Habitat for Humanity is to improve lives in our community by building safe and affordable housing in partnership with Gods people.

—
9
Calhoun County Animal Center Inc

To retrieve, care for, shelter and adopt out cats and dogs in calhoun county michigan

Animals
10
Choices of Manistee County Inc

Choices of manistee county, inc. provides emergency shelter, crisis intervention, counseling, advocacy, and education to survivors of domestic violence in manistee county, empowering survivors to achieve safety and self-determination.

Human Services
11
Middle Michigan Development Corporation

To retain and attract business in clare and isabella counties.

—
12
My Brother's Keeper of Genesee County Inc

Impacting the homeless of flint and genesee county by providing shelter and life transitioning opportunities with dignity,compassion and respect.

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Isabella Citizens for Health Inc and the most unlike its peers is B4 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 20 years old; the field is 27. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number14%7%<5yr7%13%5–10yr24%29%10–20yr12%10%20–35yr17%32%35–55yr27%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value14%3%<5yr7%12%5–10yr24%22%10–20yr12%8%20–35yr17%43%35–55yr27%13%55yr+

The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/43
the rest of the field
7%
35/501

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

37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 54 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/37
Grantees still filing
20/37
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GRATIOT COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY ASSOCIATION — $278,067 · OtherGRATIOT COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY ASSOCIATIONBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GRATIOT & MONTCALM COUNTIES — $143,455 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GRATIOT & MONTCALM COUNTIESLIFE CHOICES OF CENTRAL MICHIGAN — $115,765 · OtherLIFE CHOICES OF CENTRAL MICHIGANGRATIOT COUNTY HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY — $97,997 · OtherGRATIOT COUNTY HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETYART REACH OF MID MICHIGAN — $86,865 · OtherALMA PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $86,850 · OtherISABELLA COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN — $85,720 · OtherISABELLA COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER — $84,795 · OtherPEAK — $80,000 · OtherGRATIOT EMERGENCY HOUSING CORPORATI — $80,000 · OtherGRATIOT-ISABELLA RESD — $73,125 · OtherGRATIOT-ISABELLA RESD — $69,464 · Other211 Northeast Michigan — $68,400 · OtherWOMEN'S AID SERVICE INC — $66,339 · Other+22 more — $394,215 · Other+22 moreCRISIS CENTER INC — $216,767 · Human ServicesCRISIS CENTER INCTHE CARE STORE — $154,653 · Human ServicesTHE CARE STORECLOTHING INC — $117,605 · Human ServicesCLOTHING INCWILLIAM AND JANET STRICKLER NONPROFIT CENTER — $52,260 · Human ServicesWILLIAM AND JANET STRI…WEST MIDLAND FAMILY CENTER — $45,624 · Human ServicesWEST MIDLAND FAMILY CE…CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY ACADEMY INC — $25,393 · Human Services+2 more — $25,806 · Human ServicesHOPEWELL RANCH INC — $98,576 · HealthCOMMUNITY CANCER SERVICES INC — $85,607 · HealthB4 FOUNDATION — $32,798 · HealthISABELLA CITIZENS FOR HEALTH INC — $21,467 · Health+1 more — $7,500 · HealthCENTRAL MICHIGAN YOUTH FOR CHRIST — $228,160 · Youth DevelopmentMount Pleasant Discovery Museum — $136,315 · Arts & CultureGRATIOT COUNTY HOPE HOUSE — $48,152 · Housing & ShelterISABELLA COUNTY RESTORATION HOUSE — $29,629 · Housing & ShelterHUMANE ANIMAL TREATMENT SOCIETY INC — $68,734 · Animals
Other$1,811,057Human Services$638,108Health$245,948Youth Development$228,160Arts & Culture$136,315Housing & Shelter$77,781Animals$68,734

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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGRATIOT COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY ASSOCIATION — $278,067 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetCENTRAL MICHIGAN YOUTH FOR CHRIST — $228,160 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetCRISIS CENTER INC — $216,767 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CARE STORE — $154,653 over 6y, 36% of budgetMount Pleasant Discovery Museum — $136,315 over 7y, 10% of budgetCLOTHING INC — $117,605 over 3y, 38% of budgetLIFE CHOICES OF CENTRAL MICHIGAN — $115,765 over 3y, 9.9% of budgetHOPEWELL RANCH INC — $98,576 over 6y, 9.4% of budgetGRATIOT COUNTY HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY — $97,997 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetART REACH OF MID MICHIGAN — $86,865 over 6y, 7.5% of budgetISABELLA COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN — $85,720 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY CANCER SERVICES INC — $85,607 over 5y, 24% of budgetISABELLA COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER — $84,795 over 7y, 6.3% of budgetGRATIOT EMERGENCY HOUSING CORPORATI — $80,000 over 8y, 14% of budgetHUMANE ANIMAL TREATMENT SOCIETY INC — $68,734 over 3y, 2.7% of budget211 Northeast Michigan — $68,400 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetWOMEN'S AID SERVICE INC — $66,339 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetWILLIAM AND JANET STRICKLER NONPROFIT CENTER — $52,260 over 3y, 13% of budgetGRATIOT COUNTY HOPE HOUSE — $48,152 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetWEST MIDLAND FAMILY CENTER — $45,624 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF ISABELLA COUNTY — $39,092 over 4y, 8.0% of budgetB4 FOUNDATION — $32,798 over 1y, 23% of budgetDAY DREAMS INC — $32,340 over 2y, 21% of budgetMichigan Crossroads Council Inc Boy Scouts of America — $31,418 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPREGNANCY SERVICES OF GRATIOT COUNTY — $30,093 over 3y, 16% of budgetJohn H Goodrow Fund — $30,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetISABELLA COUNTY RESTORATION HOUSE — $29,629 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S DISCOVERY ACADEMY INC — $25,393 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetISABELLA CITIZENS FOR HEALTH INC — $21,467 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMID-MICHIGAN INDUSTRIES INC — $20,897 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY COMPASSION NETWORK — $20,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetSLEEPY DOG BOOKS FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCHRISTIAN COUNSELING OF MID MICHIGAN — $7,500 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CLARE COUNTY — $5,806 over 1y, 2.0% 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.

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.

Mt Pleasant Area Comm…Gratiot County Commun…Consumers Energy Foun…Rollin M Gerstacker F…The Mercantile Bank F…Midland Area Communit…The We Martin Foundat…The Herbert H & Grace…Yeo & Yeo FoundationJx Gives Back Family …The Morey FoundationThe Charles J Strosac…
Mt Pleasant Area Community FndMI49.5× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mt Pleasant Area Community Fnd · Gratiot County Community Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Rollin M Gerstacker Foundation · The Mercantile Bank Foundation · Midland Area Community Foundation · The We Martin Foundation · The Herbert H & Grace a Dow Foundation · Yeo & Yeo Foundation · Jx Gives Back Family Foundation Inc · The Morey Foundation · The Charles J Strosacker 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 Greater Central Michigan 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to United Way of Greater Central Michigan?

    Find your warmest path to United Way of Greater Central Michigan through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 54 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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