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United Way of Saginaw County

Our mission is to increase the organized capacity of people to care for one another.

$924k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 16 grants below total $510,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $923,897 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $413,897 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 · FY2025

  • $10k–50k13 grants · $304k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $206k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
SAGINAW SHIAWASSEE HABITAT FOR HUMA$25,000
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD$25,000
PARTNERSHIFT$25,000
CAN COUNCIL GLBR$22,500
READ ASSOCIATION$20,000
READ ASSOCIATION$20,000
READ ASSOCIATION$16,000
BIG BROSBIG SISTERS GLBR$10,000
02The need
03

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%SAMARITAS COMMUNITY CENTER: $17k → 18%SAMARITAS COMMUNITY CENTER: $12k → 18%CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES: $80k → 18%SAGINAW COUNTY YOUTH PROTECTION COU: $75k → 18%SAGINAW COUNTY YOUTH PROTECTION COU: $75k → 18%SAGINAW COUNTY YOUTH PROTECTION COU: $75k → 18%SAGINAW COUNTY YOUTH PROTECTION COU: $75k → 18%SAGINAW COUNTY YOUTH PROTECTION COU: $75k → 18%SAGINAW COUNTY YOUTH PROTECTION COU: $75k → 18%CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES: $71k → 18%CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES: $71k → 18%CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES: $71k → 18%SAGINAW COUNTY YOUTH PROTECTION COU: $57k → 18%SAGINAW COUNTY YOUTH PROTECTION COU: $57k → 18%SAGINAW COUNTY YOUTH PROTECTION COU: $57k → 18%SAGINAW COUNTY YOUTH PROTECTION COU: $55k → 18%SAGINAW COUNTY YOUTH PROTECTION COU: $55k → 18%SAGINAW COUNTY YOUTH PROTECTION COU: $55k → 18%CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 18%CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 18%CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 18%UNDERGROUND RAILROAD: $55k → 18%UNDERGROUND RAILROAD: $55k → 18%UNDERGROUND RAILROAD: $55k → 18%UNDERGROUND RAILROAD: $25k → 18%CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES: $80k → 18%CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES: $74k → 18%CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES: $26k → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
$3.2M · 12 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
1

Total granted

$3.2M
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+12%

Still filing today

92%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEmploymentEducationCommunity 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

  • CF
    Child & Family Service of Saginaw
    6× · 2020–2025 · $623k · revenue +10%
  • SC
    SAGINAW COUNTY BUSINESS & EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $415k · revenue +20%
  • UR
    UNDERGROUND RAILROAD INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $190k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • S
    SAMARITAS
    one grant, 2020 · $28k · revenue +12%
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.

1
Saginaw County Chamber of Commerce

To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.

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2
Lincoln Behavioral Services

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…

Health
3
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
4
Saginaw Public Libraries Foundation

Support library activities through materials and services

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5
Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County

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…

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6
United Way of Marquette County

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…

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7
Michigan Family Resources

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

Education
8
Saginaw County Community Action Committee Inc

The mission of the saginaw county community action committee, inc. is to serve as a proactive and dedicated community hub providing information, programs and services to low-income individuals and families helping them to achieve a more…

Human Services
9
Young Mens Christian Assoc-Saginaw

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.

Human Services
10
St Johns Community Center

to provide food and shelter for the homeless of Detroit

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11
Catholic Social Services of the Upper Peninsula Inc

Working in the spirit of Gods universal love, our mission is to nurture, stabilize and strengthen the diverse families of the Upper Peninsula Community by providing mental health and addiction counseling services, child welfare services,…

Human Services
12
Shared Pregnancy Womens Center

To offer education, assistance and resources to women and families in the greater lansing area.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saginaw Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Hidden Harvest. 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

14 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. 14 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Saginaw County Youth Protection Council: $786,000 · Human ServicesSaginaw County Youth Protection CouncilChild & Family Service of Saginaw: $622,500 · Human ServicesChild & Family Service of SaginawUNDERGROUND RAILROAD INC: $190,000 · Human ServicesUNDERGROUND RAILROAD INCYWCA GREAT LAKES BAY REGION: $172,500 · Human ServicesYWCA GREAT LAKES BAY REGIONHIDDEN HARVEST: $166,000 · Human ServicesHIDDEN HARVEST+1 more: $28,389 · Human ServicesSAGINAW COUNTY BUSINESS & EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP INC: $415,000 · EmploymentSAGINAW COUNTY…SAGINAW-SHIAWASSEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $187,500 · OtherSAGINAW-SHIAW…First Ward Community Service: $102,500 · OtherFirst Ward Co…CAN COUNCIL GLBR: $64,500 · OtherCAN COUNCIL G…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE GREAT LAKES BAY REGION: $17,500 · Other+1 more: $10,000 · OtherREAD Association of Saginaw County: $347,333 · EducationREAD Associ…Houghton Jones Neighborhood Task Force Inc: $172,500 · Community ImprovementSaginaw Community Foundation: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Human Services$1,965,389Employment$415,000Other$382,000Education$347,333Community Improvement$172,500Philanthropy$10,000

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

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 budgetSaginaw Community Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

Saginaw Community Fou…Boutell Memorial FundBay Area Community Fo…Frances Goll Mills Fu…Alice E Turner Memori…Alden and Vada Dow Fu…Wm McNally Family Fou…Wickson-Link Memorial…Consumers Energy Foun…Frank N Andersen Foun…Tri-Star Charitable F…Allen E & Marie A Nic…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    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
    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.

    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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