· Public charity
United Way of Midland County
To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of the Midland community through leadership, collaboration, volunteerism and charitable fundraising.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 33 grants below total $3,298,543 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,607,864 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $309,321 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $364k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.6M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| West Midland Family Center | $450,200 |
| Family and Children's Service of Midland | $311,710 |
| Greater Midland Community Center | $271,500 |
| Shelterhouse | $255,000 |
| The Salvation Army | $215,000 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Great Lakes Bay Region | $200,000 |
| Home to Stay Housing Assistance Center | $172,000 |
| North Family Center Grater Michigan | $149,000 |
| Coleman Family Center | $145,000 |
| Ten-Sixteen Recovery Network | $140,000 |
| Arnold Center | $100,000 |
| ARC of Midland | $96,000 |
| Cancer Services | $95,500 |
| Senior Services | $91,000 |
| Safe & Sound Child Advocacy Center | $65,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $8.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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 +48% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
- GMGREATER MIDLAND COMMUNITY CTRS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $4.4M · revenue +103%
- WMWEST MIDLAND FAMILY CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $3.4M · revenue +178%
- FCFamily & Children's Services of Mid-Michigan Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +7% · 36% of their budget
Funded once
- CBCOLEMAN BUSINESS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2021 · $82k
- PCPhoenix Community Farmgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue +138%
- RCRural Community Health Worker Networkone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -65%
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 provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
Our mission is to provide an adoption-friendly animal shelter that will unify the community toward a common goal of responsible animal treatment and increased animal adoptions to design and incorporate new education and public programs…
The mission of the Center for Family Health is opening the door to health care for all.
Michigan Family Resources mission is to deliver holistic family-centered services to children that promote their well-being and development.
The mission of the Northern Michigan Mobile Advocacy Center is partnering with communities to bring healing, hope, and justice to abused children in rural Michigan.
To provide high quality, individualized care and community inclusion for the people we serve so they can have full and happy lives.
To meet the growing housing needs of people with special needs throughout Midland County - we want to offer them stability and affordability and help them become integrated into the community.
To entertain, educate and inspire a diverse and expanding regional audiences in the arts, sciences and humanities.
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…
Our mission is to assist our affiliates to increase capacity to build simple decent homes in partnership with people in need in the State of Michigan.
To advance the safety, independence, and economic stability of those most affected by poverty, racism, and other structurally oppressive systems by increasing access to justice and working for systemic solutions.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Midland Center for Independent Living and the most unlike its peers is Caregiving Network Inc. 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 46 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 40 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 GREATER MIDLAND COMMUNITY CTRS INC ↗
- Who funds WEST MIDLAND FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Family & Children's Services of Mid-Michigan Inc ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Great Lakes Bay Region ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND AREA HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds TEN SIXTEEN RECOVERY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds The Arc of Midland ↗
- Who funds ARNOLD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds Midland County Cancer Society DBA Cancer Services ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND CAMPING COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Reaching Our Community Kids ↗
- Who funds 211 Northeast Michigan ↗
- Who funds Midland County Child Protection Council ↗
- Who funds Camp Fire USA Midland County Council ↗
- Who funds Midland Center for Independent Living ↗
- Who funds HIDDEN HARVEST ↗
- Who funds Legacy Center for Community Success ↗
- Who funds Midland County Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SELF LOVE BEAUTY ↗
- Who funds Midland County Food Assistance Network ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND BUSINESS ALLIANCE FNDN ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds Phoenix Community Farm ↗
- Who funds Rural Community Health Worker Network ↗
- Who funds HEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds Midland Ctr for Accessible Health Care ↗
- Who funds Caregiving Network Inc ↗
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: Midland Area Community Foundation · The Patricia and David Kepler Foundation · The Charles J Strosacker Foundation · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · The Herbert H & Grace a Dow Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Rollin M Gerstacker Foundation · Alden and Vada Dow Fund · Bay Area Community Foundation · Barstow Foundation · Midland Kiwanis Foundation · Bierlein Companies 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 Midland 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.