How much does United Way of Midland County give?

United Way of Midland County reported 33 itemized grants totaling $3,298,543, out of $3,607,864 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 29 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does United Way of Midland County fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (45%), Recreation & Sports (15%), Health (12%).

Who are United Way of Midland County's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Greater Midland Community Ctrs Inc ($4.4M), West Midland Family Center ($3.4M), Family & Children's Services of Mid-Michigan Inc ($2.6M).

Does United Way of Midland County fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Midland County?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Midland Area Community Foundation, The Patricia and David Kepler Foundation, The Charles J Strosacker Foundation.

Where is United Way of Midland County based?

United Way of Midland County is based in MI.

United Way of Midland County

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· 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.

$3.6M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$450k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$12MRecreation & Sports$3.9MHealth$3.1MYouth Development$3.0MHousing & Shelter$1.6MEmployment$720kCrime & Legal$480kFood & Nutrition$471kOther$0

02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 33 grants below total $3,298,543, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,607,864 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $309,321 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $6k
$10k–50k14 grants · $364k
$50k–250k14 grants · $1.6M
$250k+4 grants · $1.3M

$56,000

Median grant

States reached

$14M

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

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.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$26M · 28 repeat orgs$183k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$26M

$155k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%

+19%

Still filing today

82%

56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

GM
GREATER MIDLAND COMMUNITY CTRS INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $4.4M · revenue +103%
WM
WEST MIDLAND FAMILY CENTER
9× · 2017–2025 · $3.4M · revenue +78%
CO
COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +47%

Funded once

CB
COLEMAN BUSINESS ASSOCIATION
one grant, 2021 · $82k
PC
Phoenix Community Farmgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue +138%
HO
HEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY
one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -77%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Midmichigan Health Services

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

Health

Humane Society of Midland County

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…

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United Way of Midland County

To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of the Midland community through leadership, collaboration, volunteerism and charitable fundraising.

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Midland's Open Door

Midland's Open Door (MOD) operates two crisis shelters, one for women and children and one for men. MOD's programs are designed to meet the immediate needs of homeless individuals by providing a safe and loving environment where each…

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Reece Endeavor of Midland

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.

Philanthropy

Center for Family Health

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

Health

Midland Center for the Arts Inc

To entertain, educate and inspire a diverse and expanding regional audiences in the arts, sciences and humanities.

Arts & Culture

Great Lakes Bay Health Centers

To provide high quality health care to individuals and community groups in Saginaw, Bay, and other nearby counties. Services are provided without regard to race, beliefs or ability to pay.

Health

Vail House Midland Inc

To provide high quality, individualized care and community inclusion for the people we serve so they can have full and happy lives.

Health

Michigan Family Resources

Michigan Family Resources mission is to deliver holistic family-centered services to children that promote their well-being and development.

Education

Health Net of West Michigan

To improve the health of children and adults, particularly vulnerable populations, through education and connections to health care and support services.

Health

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

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Midland Center for Independent Living; 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.

04the grantee network

30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

30/30

Grantees still filing

20/30

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Human Services$8,901,669Other$7,407,575Recreation & Sports$5,028,990Housing & Shelter$1,612,098Health$1,559,623Youth Development$1,052,000Community Improvement$620,397

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Midland Area Community FoundationMI65.2× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization United Way of Midland County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Midland County. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

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 · 0–25%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home