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UNITED WAY OF JACKSON COUNTY
UNITED WAY OF JACKSON COUNTY (uwjc) is dedicated to creating a community rich in opportunities to eliminate poverty and allow all people to achieve financial stability and success.
$6.3M
Granted FY2022
16
Grants
1
Communities
$48k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of UNITED WAY OF JACKSON COUNTY’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02FY2022 · 16 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k3 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $284k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
- FAMILY SERVICES AND FAMILY AID$48,188
- LEGAL SERVICES OF SOUTH EAST MICHIG$48,019
- AWARE$40,912
- LILLY MISSIONS CENTER$36,938
- NONPROFIT NETWORK$18,750
- CHILD CARE NETWORK$16,500
- JACKSON COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT$15,000
- JOHN GEORGE HOME$10,000
- DOCHASS II$10,000
- FELICIAN CHILDRENS CENTER$10,000
- JACKSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
- JACKSON HOUSING COMMISSION$10,000
- THE SALVATION ARMY$10,000
- COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY$7,988
- FOOD BANK OF SC MICHIGAN$5,063
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 (FY18–22, $395k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
$2.1M · 18 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else
18 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2022, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
18
0
Total granted
$2.1M
$0
Still filing today
72%
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 & LegalPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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
- LSLEGAL SERVICES OF SOUTH EAST MICHIG5× · 2018–2022 · $230k · revenue +194%
- AAWARE5× · 2018–2022 · $223k · revenue +33%
- CCCHILD CARE NETWORK5× · 2018–2022 · $157k · revenue +69%
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
Jackson Interfaith Shelter
Seeking to put Gods love into action, Jackson Interfaith Shelter provides temporary shelter and other essential resources to people experiencing homelessness and poverty.
Housing & Shelter
2
Jackson Community Food Pantry
JACKSON COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY makes food accessible to people without judgement and without barriers, building a sense of community between our participants, our volunteers and our supporters.
Food & Nutrition
3
Caring House Inc
Domestic violence shelter
Human Services
4
Jackson Community Ambulance
The mission of jackson community ambulance is to provide accessible high quality prehospital health care services to the people and organizations we serve in south central michigan.
Public Safety & Disaster
5
Economic Justice Alliance of Michigan
To advance economic justice in michigan
Public Benefit
6
Housing Services of Mid Michigan
To assist people with low or moderate income to obtain safe and affordable housing
Housing & Shelter
7
Jackson County Casa
Casa is a unique non-profit helping abused and neglected children in the jackson county family court system. our team of trained volunteers,staff case supervisors, and staff attorneys allow each child to be represented in a court of law…
Civil Rights
8
Community & Home Supports Inc
We're a social service organization located in the city of detroit, michigan that specializes in providing coordinated assessment, permanent housing, and supportive services for individuals and families that are homeless.
Human Services
9
Jacksonville Humane Society Inc
Serves as a resource to the community for all companion animal related issues
Animals
10
Lakeshore Legal Aid
Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.
Crime & Legal
11
Dubuque and Jackson County Habitat for
To build affordable and decent housing for low income families
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12
Community Housing Partnership
Providing affordable housing to underserved communities locally and around the world.
Housing & Shelter
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of Jackson and the most unlike its peers is Do'chas Ii. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$962,236Human Services$738,688Crime & Legal$230,019Philanthropy$66,000Youth Development$57,675
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 LEGAL SERVICES OF SOUTH EAST MICHIG ↗
- Who funds AWARE ↗
- Who funds CHILD CARE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds LILLY MISSIONS CENTER ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY ↗
- Who funds NONPROFIT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF SC MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds JACKSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOCHASS II ↗
- Who funds JOHN GEORGER HOME ↗
- Who funds FELICIAN CHILDRENS CENTER ↗
- Who funds JACKSON FRIENDLY HOME ↗
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.
Jackson Community FoundationMI26.8× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Jackson Community Foundation · United Way of South Central Michigan · Consumers Energy Foundation · Speckhard-Knight Charitable Foundation · The Alvin L Glick Foundation · Louis Glick Memorial & Charitable Trust · Lavery Foundation · Flagstar Foundation Inc · Phil & Pat Willis Foundation · John George Jr Paragraph X Trust · Lenawee Community Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 JACKSON 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 · 0–75%
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: LILLY MISSIONS CENTER.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
medium risk
~5 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 383469813 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 LILLY MISSIONS CENTER, 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
- WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 5 months of cash on hand.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 24% 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 Jackson County?
Find your warmest path to United Way of Jackson 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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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines