· Public charity
United Way of St Clair County
The mission of the united way of saint clair county is to mobilize the community of st.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $443,736 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $566,468 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $122,732 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
- Under $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $305k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $123k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VISITING NURSES ASSOCIATION | $73,006 |
| DETROIT RESCUE MISSION | $50,000 |
| RESAIMAGINATION LIBRARY | $47,000 |
| MI VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION | $45,000 |
| THE ARC OF ST CLAIR COUNTY | $45,000 |
| COMP YOUTH SERVICES - HARBOR | $44,000 |
| BLUE WATER SAFE HORIZONS | $38,000 |
| BLUE WATER COMMUNITY ACTION | $30,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SE MI | $24,930 |
| BLUE WATER RECOVERY | $20,800 |
| PEOPLE'S CLINIC FOR BETTER HEALTH | $10,000 |
| SANBORN GRATIOT EMERGENCY FOOD | $8,000 |
| SANBORN GRATIOT MEMORIAL HOME | $8,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $707k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 19%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +25% since the first grant, against -11% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TATHE ARC OF ST CLAIR COUNTY8× · 2017–2025 · $490k · revenue +248% · 58% of their budget
- CYCOMPREHENSIVE YOUTH SERVICES INC8× · 2017–2025 · $347k · revenue +25%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN8× · 2017–2025 · $323k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- DMDIFFERENCE MAKERS MENTORINGone grant, 2019 · $16k
- MNMID-CITY NUTRITIONone grant, 2017 · $10k
- GSGIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGANone grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue -11%
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.
Community & home supports, inc. was founded to help people and communities address poverty and homelessness. we strive to fulfill our purpose by developing, leading, and participating in collaborative and innovative efforts that support…
The michigan christian home dba beacon hill at eastgate, a not-for-profit corporation, provides housing and health services in a christian environment for older adults, thus enabling them to meet their ongoing physical, social and…
Detroit central city community mental health's mission is to achieve wellness in the community by providing an integrated array of mental health, housing and substance abuse services with diginity and respect.
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…
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
Radias health is a non-profit mental health & substance use disorders services organization customizing community based services through the integration of knowledge, compassion, and collaboration. we are committed to being an inclusive,…
To assist people with low or moderate income to obtain safe and affordable housing
To provide specialized residential services to mentally ill and disabled individuals in order to assist each person to meet personal goals by providing the highest quality services that are unique to each person's wishes, needs, and…
Provides work activity for the mentally and physically disabled.
To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.
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…
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Blue Water Community Action and the most unlike its peers is Sons. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
21 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. 21 of the 28 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 VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION HEALTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF ST CLAIR COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SAFE HORIZONS ↗
- Who funds COMPREHENSIVE YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds SONS ↗
- Who funds BWROC INC ↗
- Who funds Michigan Crossroads Council Inc Boy Scouts of America ↗
- Who funds BLUE WATER COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
- Who funds TOUCHSTONE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE WATER DEVELOPMENTAL HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ENTERPRISES OF ST CLAIR COUNTY ↗
- Who funds TRINITY HEALTH - MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds HUNTER HOSPITALITY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MID CITY NUTRITION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds THE COUNCIL ON AGING INC SERVING ST CLAIR COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HARBOR IMPACT MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ST CLAIR COUNTY ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
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: Community Foundation of St Clair County · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · James C Acheson 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 St Clair 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.