· Public charity
United Way of Montcalm-Ionia Counties
To make studies of community needs and to provide funds for the maintenance and operations of organizations in Montcalm and Ionia counties that meet these needs.
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 7 grants below total $60,200 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $180,502 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $120,302 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 $10k4 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Outreach Inc | $10,100 |
| Cherry Health | $10,000 |
| Randy's House | $10,000 |
| IM Kids Third Meal | $8,000 |
| HAVE MERCY | $8,000 |
| RAVE | $8,000 |
| Alpha Family Center | $6,100 |
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, $106k) 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 +149% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2022, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- HMHave Mercy6× · 2017–2022 · $90k · revenue +176%
- RARELIEF AFTER VIOLENT ENCOUNTER - IONIA MONTCALM INC5× · 2017–2022 · $56k · revenue +91%
- EIEIGHTCAP INC4× · 2017–2020 · $37k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- FAFEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGANgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $37k · revenue +28%
- ICIONIA COUNTY HDone grant, 2021 · $23k
- IMIONIA MONTCALM SECURE & FRIENDLY ENVIRONMENT CHILD ADVOCACY CENTERone grant, 2021 · $11k · revenue +13%
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.
Supply food and clothings to all people regardless of origin, race, gender, or sexual orientation, at no charge, in a manner which protects and upholds the dignity of individuals and encourages them to improve their quality of life through…
Moc's mission is to empower families to achieve economic security by eliminating barriers and creating opportunities.
Family lifeline partners with families and individuals, delivering intensive home and community-based services to achieve an equitable, resilient community where families and individuals are connected, safe, and living a healthy,…
Advocate for people in recovery & provides holistic options for those recovering from substance use disorder, codependency & trauma.
Iris family support center, formerly known as scan, protects children, prepares parents, strengthens families and educates our community to stop child abuse and neglect.
To provide quality services to protect maintain and enhance community well-being by promoting conditions in which people can achieve their maximum level of health
The ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.
To provide shelter and assistance for abused families. the help we offer addresses the fundamental needs of life; temporary refuge in our shelter, food, clothing and emergency medical needs. it is our goal to create hope in the hearts of…
Our mission is to provide compassionate support, resources, and advocacy for victims of violent crime. we are dedicated to empowering children, teens and adults in their journey to healing by offering a safe place, emotional care, and the…
We are and Agency created on the fundamental value that strengthening one family at a time will transform our community as a whole. we believe that all people should have access to behavioral healt servicesa and to live a fulfilling life.…
To empower and support children and families in reaching their full potential and becoming self-sufficient, saving lives and creating futures through educational enrichment and shelter services.
The mission of manna soup kitchen is to provide, in the spirit of faith and love, nourishing meals and supportive services in an atmosphere of acceptance and caring for those in need.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eightcap Inc and the most unlike its peers is Alpha Family Services of Greenville. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 20 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 Have Mercy ↗
- Who funds RELIEF AFTER VIOLENT ENCOUNTER - IONIA MONTCALM INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds EIGHTCAP INC ↗
- Who funds MONTCALM AREA READING COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IONIA MONTCALM SECURE & FRIENDLY ENVIRONMENT CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds RANDY'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Grand Rapids (3019) ↗
- Who funds MANNAS MARKET INC ↗
- Who funds COREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Alpha Family Services of Greenville ↗
- Who funds Cherry Street Services 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: Greenville Area Community Fnd · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Montcalm-Ionia Counties 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to United Way of Montcalm-Ionia Counties?
Find your warmest path to United Way of Montcalm-Ionia Counties 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.