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United Way of Saginaw County

Our mission is to increase the organized capacity of people to care for one another. Our vision is a safe, nurturing community where all families can thrive.

$924k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
16
Itemized grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$510k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$75,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 11
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$6.7M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations United Way of Saginaw County funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving11$500k9%
FY202410$563k0%
FY202310$550k10%
FY202211$598k0%
FY202111$541k9%
FY202011$531kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$1.9MEmployment$415kEducation$347kYouth Development$303kHousing & Shelter$188kFood & Nutrition$166kHealth$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Where it is load-bearing

United Way of Saginaw County supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSaginaw County Youth Protection Council: $786,000 over 6y, 8.7% of budgetChild & Family Service of Saginaw: $622,500 over 6y, 7.0% of budgetSaginaw County Business & Education Partnership Inc: $415,000 over 6y, 19% of budgetREAD Association of Saginaw County: $347,333 over 6y, 60% of budgetUnderground Railroad Inc: $190,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetSaginaw-Shiawassee Habitat for Humanity: $187,500 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetHoughton Jones Neighborhood Task Force Inc: $172,500 over 6y, 31% of budgetYWCA Great Lakes Bay Region: $172,500 over 6y, 20% of budgetHidden Harvest: $166,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetFirst Ward Community Service: $102,500 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetSamaritas: $28,389 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of the Great Lakes Bay Region: $17,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of the Great Lakes Bay Region: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

Saginaw Community FoundationMI26.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About United Way of Saginaw County

How much does United Way of Saginaw County give?
United Way of Saginaw County reported 16 itemized grants totaling $510,000, out of $923,897 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 11 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does United Way of Saginaw County fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (57%), Employment (13%), Education (11%).
Who are United Way of Saginaw County's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Saginaw County Youth Protection Council ($786k), Child & Family Service of Saginaw ($623k), Saginaw County Business & Education Partnership Inc ($415k).
Does United Way of Saginaw County fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Saginaw County?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saginaw Community Foundation, Boutell Memorial Fund, Bay Area Community Foundation.
Where is United Way of Saginaw County based?
United Way of Saginaw County is based in MI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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