· Public charity
United Way of Saginaw County
Our mission is to increase the organized capacity of people to care for one another.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $510,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $923,897 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $413,897 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 · FY2025
- $10k–50k13 grants · $304k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $206k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAGINAW COUNTY YOUTH PROTECTION COU | $75,000 |
| CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES | $74,000 |
| SAGINAW COUNTY YOUTH PROTECTION COU | $57,000 |
| HIDDEN HARVEST | $40,000 |
| HOUGHTON JONES NEIGHBORHOOD TASK FO | $35,000 |
| YWCA GLBR | $30,000 |
| CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES | $25,500 |
| PARTNERSHIFT | $25,000 |
| UNDERGROUND RAILROAD | $25,000 |
| SAGINAW SHIAWASSEE HABITAT FOR HUMA | $25,000 |
| CAN COUNCIL GLBR | $22,500 |
| READ ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| READ ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| READ ASSOCIATION | $16,000 |
| SAGINAW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
12 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- CFChild & Family Service of Saginaw6× · 2020–2025 · $623k · revenue +10%
- SCSAGINAW COUNTY BUSINESS & EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP INC6× · 2020–2025 · $415k · revenue +7%
- URUNDERGROUND RAILROAD INC4× · 2020–2025 · $190k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- SSAMARITASone grant, 2020 · $28k · revenue +12%
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 be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.
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…
Support library activities through materials and services
Focusing community resources to meet community needs the United Way of Marquette County works to advance the common good by connecting people with health and human care issues they are concerned about and to provide the oversight the…
Michigan Family Resources mission is to deliver holistic family-centered services to children that promote their well-being and development.
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.
Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County D/B/A Catholic Charities Washtenaw County provides diverse, holistic social services including adoption and pregnancy counseling, food and basic needs assistance, domestic and child abuse…
Girl scouting builds girls of courage, confidence and character, who make the world a better place
The YMCA of Saginaw is an association of all people united in a common effort to put Judeo-Christian principles into practice through programs that enrich the spirit mind and body for all.
The organization operates primarily on the Southern Kenai Peninsula and its operations include the following:Community Mental Health - Counseling, evaluation, consultation and crisis mental health services for Adults and…
The historical society of saginaw county is committed to serve the community by telling the continuing story of the people of the saginaw region through exploration, preservation and presentation of their historical and cultural heritage.
to provide food and shelter for the homeless of Detroit
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saginaw Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Houghton Jones Neighborhood Task Force Inc. 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 15 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 Saginaw County Youth Protection Council ↗
- Who funds Child & Family Service of Saginaw ↗
- Who funds SAGINAW COUNTY BUSINESS & EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds READ Association of Saginaw County ↗
- Who funds UNDERGROUND RAILROAD INC ↗
- Who funds SAGINAW-SHIAWASSEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds Houghton Jones Neighborhood Task Force Inc ↗
- Who funds YWCA GREAT LAKES BAY REGION ↗
- Who funds HIDDEN HARVEST ↗
- Who funds First Ward Community Service ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAS ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE GREAT LAKES BAY REGION ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Great Lakes Bay Region ↗
- Who funds Saginaw Community Foundation ↗
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: Saginaw Community Foundation · Boutell Memorial Fund · Bay Area Community Foundation · Frances Goll Mills Fund · Alice E Turner Memorial Trust · Alden and Vada Dow Fund · Wm McNally Family Foundation · Wickson-Link Memorial Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Frank N Andersen Foundation · Tri-Star Charitable Foundation · Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial 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 Saginaw 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.