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· 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.
$181k
Granted FY2022
7
Grants
2
Communities
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of United Way of Montcalm-Ionia Counties’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.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
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2020
alleviatecausespovertyeffectsallowingbecomeself-sufficient
2021
childabusefooddolly parton
2022
eliminate crimescrimes domesticdomestic sexualsexual violenceviolence advocacy
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2022 · 7 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k4 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$8,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$212k
Total assets
Largest grants
- Outreach Inc$10,100
- Cherry Health$10,000
- Randy's House$10,000
- HAVE MERCY$8,000
- RAVE$8,000
- IM Kids Third Meal$8,000
- Alpha Family Center$6,100
02The need
04
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, $89k) 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.
67%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$351k · 7 repeat orgs$172k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +176% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2022, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
7
10
Total granted
$351k
$146k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+176%
+33%
Still filing today
71%
60%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalFood & NutritionEducationOther
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 MERCY5× · 2018–2022 · $81k · revenue +176%
- RRAVE4× · 2018–2022 · $47k · revenue +86%
DOLLY PARTON IMAGINATION LIBRARY2× · 2019–2020 · $32k · revenue +190%
Funded once
- FAFeeding America W MIgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $37k · revenue +33%
- OOOTHER ORGANIZATIONS UNDER 5000one grant, 2018 · $36k
- ICIonia Countyone grant, 2021 · $23k
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
Rescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan
Expressing God's love by reaching out to the hurting and homeless of the Great Lakes Bay Region by providing shelter and care, proclaiming the Gospel of Christ, and establishing Christian disciples among disadvantaged people.
Housing & Shelter
2
Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries
Health
3
The Serenity House of Flint
Advocate for people in recovery & provides holistic options for those recovering from substance use disorder, codependency & trauma.
Human Services
4
Young Women's Christian Association of
Mission: eliminating racism and empowering women. 1. ywca changed its by-laws from a membership organization to a directorship using guidelines provided by the national ywca. 2. ywca provides 24/7/365 days a year services to survivors of…
Human Services
5
Family Service Association
Family service is built on a foundation of treating all individuals with dignity and respect, guided by our mission: "we listen, care, and help. every day." through this mission, we uplift individuals, families, and children across our…
Human Services
6
Montcalm County Habitat for Humanity
The mission of Montcalm County Habitat for Humanity is to improve lives in our community by building safe and affordable housing in partnership with Gods people.
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7
Michigan Family Resources
Michigan Family Resources mission is to deliver comprehensive services to low-income children five and under and their families, promoting their wel-being and development
Education
8
Crossroads of Michigan
To care for any person in need by providing counseling, advocacy and material assistance when possible and appropriate, and to respond to other human needs in the community.
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9
Mary Magdalene Community Services Agency
The mission of Mary Magdalene Community Services Program is to increase our client's access to appropriate services so as to enhance individual and family well-being. We achieve this by direct provision of services or appropriate referrals…
Youth Development
10
Angel Reach
The goal of Angel Reach is to break the generational cycle of abuse, neglect and homelessness so individual lives and communities can be enhanced. Through providing a coordinated family of services aimed at meeting the special needs of…
Human Services
11
Orange County Rescue Mission Inc
To minister the love of Jesus Christ to the Least, the Last, and the Lost of our Community through the provision of assistance in the areas of guidance, counseling, education, job training, shelter, food, clothing, health care and…
Housing & Shelter
12
Mercy House Living Centers
To be the leader in ending homelessness by providing a unique system of dignified housing alternatives, programs, and supportive services.
Housing & Shelter
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eightcap Inc and the most unlike its peers is Montcalm Area Reading Council. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$281,696Human Services$89,450Housing & Shelter$81,000Education$21,911Health$21,478Crime & Legal$11,000International$10,100Food & Nutrition$6,167
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 RAVE ↗
- Who funds Feeding America W MI ↗
- Who funds DOLLY PARTON IMAGINATION LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds OPTIMIST CAMP ↗
- Who funds Montcalm Area Reading Council ↗
- Who funds IM Safe Child Advocacy Ctr ↗
- Who funds Outreach Inc ↗
- Who funds Randy's House ↗
- Who funds YMCA ↗
- Who funds Manna Market ↗
- Who funds Spectrum Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds Alpha Family Center ↗
- Who funds CHERRY HEALTH ↗
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.
Greenville Area Community FndMI20.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 6 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Greenville Area Community Fnd · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · 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 organisation 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.
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 · 0–40%
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: Alpha Family Center.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 208016914 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 Alpha Family 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
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 4% 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.
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How do I get to United Way of Montcalm-Ionia Counties?
Find your warmest path to United Way of Montcalm-Ionia Counties 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