· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $301,108 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $6,330,641 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $6,029,533 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 · FY2022
- Under $10k3 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $284k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| DOCHASS II | $10,000 |
| JACKSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| JACKSON HOUSING COMMISSION | $10,000 |
| FELICIAN CHILDRENS CENTER | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY | $7,988 |
| FOOD BANK OF SC MICHIGAN | $5,063 |
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 (FY17–22, $585k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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 +82% since the first grant, against +57% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2022, 2 since wound down.
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 FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- MAMichigan Advocacy Program6× · 2017–2022 · $293k · revenue +194%
- AIAware Inc6× · 2017–2022 · $286k · revenue +48%
- CCChild Care Network6× · 2017–2022 · $230k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- CCCatholic Charities of Jacksongraduatedone grant, 2017 · $47k · revenue +57%
- JCJACKSON COUNTY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2017 · $32k
- GSGIRL SCOUTS - IRISH HILLSone grant, 2017 · $13k
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.
Seeking to put Gods love into action, Jackson Interfaith Shelter provides temporary shelter and other essential resources to people experiencing homelessness and poverty.
To be a multifaceted housing organization devoted to catalyzing intentional on and off site collaborative partnerships that reduces homelessness and creates sustainable communities through affordable quality housing continued education job…
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…
The mission of jackson community ambulance is to provide high-quality out-of-hospital care and transportation services to the communities we serve.
To provide high quality, comprehensive child development and after school care to ensure that children can reach their highest potential
to provide food and shelter for the homeless of Detroit
Our vision is to seek the wholistic wellbeing of the Jackson neighborhood, where residents are known, valued, and empowered to collaborate for the thriving of its people and place.
Enhance delivery of quality, integrated, accessible services
The primary function of the Jackson Council on the Aging, Inc. is to improve the quality of life for the parish's elderly and to provide services to the elderly as well as coordinate and monitor the services of other local agencies serving…
Michigan Family Resources mission is to deliver holistic family-centered services to children that promote their well-being and development.
To meet the needs of children and famlies in our community by providing a community-based, child-focused center that facilitates a compassionate, multidisciplinary approach to the prevention, treatment, identification, investigation, and…
To be a leading driver and advocate for community and economic development in jackson county.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of Jackson County Inc 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.
15 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. 15 of the 22 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 Michigan Advocacy Program ↗
- Who funds Aware Inc ↗
- Who funds Child Care Network ↗
- Who funds LILY MISSIONS CENTER ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF JACKSON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY ↗
- Who funds NONPROFIT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds SOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Jackson Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds DO'CHAS II ↗
- Who funds JOHN GEORGE HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of Jackson ↗
- Who funds THE JACKSON FRIENDLY HOME ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Jackson School of the Arts Assoc ↗
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: Jackson Community Foundation · United Way of South Central Michigan · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Alvin L Glick Foundation · Lavery Foundation · John George Jr Paragraph X Trust · Louis Glick Memorial & Charitable Trust · The Hurst Foundation · Speckhard-Knight Charitable Foundation · Lenawee Community Foundation · Flagstar Foundation Inc · Macchia Family 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 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.
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.