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United Way of South Central Michigan

We bring together the people, ideas and resources to lead with our communities and create a flourishing, equitable life for everyone.

$14M
Granted FY2025still arriving
149
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$332k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 149 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 149 grants below total $6,702,636 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $13,934,278 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $7,231,642 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 $10k29 grants · $202k
  • $10k–50k66 grants · $1.6M
  • $50k–250k52 grants · $4.2M
  • $250k+2 grants · $662k
$29,748
Median grant
15
States reached
$33M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UW OF METRO CHICAGO$332,133
GRYPHON PLACE$330,226
YWCA OF KALAMAZOO$185,438
MINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY$175,587
LEGAL SERVICES SCMI$143,946
SOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK$135,616
HOUSING RESOURCES INC$132,345
COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN$128,381
DIGNITY IN MOTION$125,162
UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE$123,450
UNITED WAY OF WEST TENNESSEE$116,358
FAMILY SERVICE & CHILDREN'S AID$112,436
VOCES$107,649
PREVENTION WORKS OF SOUTHWEST MI$99,797
MILESTONE SENIOR SVCS FORMERLY SENIOR SRVCS$97,936
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $13.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%COMMUNITY ACTION: $280k → 14%COMMUNITY ACTION: $237k → 14%COMMUNITY ACTION: $236k → 14%COMMUNITY ACTION: $205k → 14%COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN: $128k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $201k → 12%COMMUNITY ACTION: $308k → 14%COMMUNITY ACTION: $292k → 14%COMMUNITY ACTION: $156k → 14%CHARITABLE UNION: $133k → 14%WASHINGTON HEIGHTS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $129k → 14%CHARITABLE UNION: $116k → 14%WASHINGTON HEIGHTS U: $98k → 14%CHARITABLE UNION: $96k → 14%SHARE CENTER: $96k → 14%CHARITABLE UNION: $89k → 14%SAFE PLACE: $88k → 14%CHARITABLE UNION: $87k → 14%CHARITABLE UNION: $87k → 14%CHARITABLE UNION: $86k → 14%KALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S: $168k → 12%GFM THE SYNERGY CENTER: $135k → 12%KALAMAZOO COUNTY: $131k → 12%KALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S: $93k → 12%VOCES: $151k → 14%VOCES: $142k → 14%VOCES: $129k → 14%VOCES: $122k → 14%VOCES: $120k → 14%VOCES: $111k → 14%VOCES: $109k → 14%VOCES: $108k → 14%SHARE CENTER: $97k → 14%FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES: $505k → 12%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $251k → 12%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF KALAMAZOO: $234k → 12%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF KALAMAZOO: $197k → 12%FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES: $186k → 12%FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES: $164k → 12%FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES: $150k → 12%FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC: $134k → 12%FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES: $131k → 12%FMLY&CHLDRN SVC KZOO: $92k → 12%CATHOLIC CHARITIES-DIOCESE OF KALAMAZOO: $237k → 12%CATHOLIC CHARITIES - DIOCESE OF KALAMAZOO: $179k → 12%CATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICES (DBA CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF KALAMAZOO): $173k → 12%CATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICES: $155k → 12%CC DIOCESE OF KZOO: $107k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

NH
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CA
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MO
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AZ
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AR
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GA
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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.

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$66M · 202 repeat orgs$3.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

202 repeat relationships — 126 still active in FY2025, 76 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

202
97

Total granted

$66M
$2.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
0%

Still filing today

80%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $299k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesPhilanthropyHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • YW
    YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KALAMAZOO MI
    9× · 2017–2025 · $4.3M · revenue +192%
  • CA
    COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +57%
  • SOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • FE
    FOURTH ESTATE DBA IMG LLC
    one grant, 2024 · $358k
  • OD
    Open Doors With Brother Andrew Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +42%
  • CK
    CAN-DO KALAMAZOOgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue +124%

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
United Way of Lapeer County

To unite the community by developing resources to meet the community needs.

Philanthropy
2
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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3
Mid Michigan Community Action Agency Inc

Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.

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4
United Way of the Midlands

United way connects people and resources to improve the quality of life in the midlands. united way invests in a broad range of community programs that increase access to health care, improve student success, assist people in crisis to…

Philanthropy
5
Kishwaukee United Way

To improve lives by sharing community resources

Philanthropy
6
United Way of North Central Ohio Inc

At united way of north central ohio, we bring people, organizations, and resources together to create solutions that improve the lives of every person in every community in our region.

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7
Area Agency On Aging of Western Michigan Inc

Through internal expertise, external partnerships, and advocacy, the area agency on aging of western michigan provides older adults, adults with disabilities, and their caregivers equitable access to services that promote independence and…

Human Services
8
United Way Manitowoc County Inc

United way's mission is to improve lives.

Philanthropy
9
United Way of Wayne and Holmes Co

In order to mobilize community resources to help people measurably improve their lives - we work collaboratively with our community to identify priorities, and then decide which strategies, dollars, and partnerships should be used to bring…

Philanthropy
10
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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11
Cedar Valley United Way

Uniting our community to empower individuals and families to thrive.

Philanthropy
12
United Way of Clinton County Iowa

To provide leadership in our communities to 1) identify our most pressing human care needs, 2) to work together to direct the time, energy and resources towards addressing those needs to improve our quality of life.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Southwest Michigan and the most unlike its peers is National Humane Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Sports DevelopmentDetroit Community Developme…Labor Union LocalsSenior Residential CareChristian Schools and Educa…Disability Services & Advoc…Hospital Health SystemsEarly Childhood Care CentersDevelopmental Disability Re…Detroit Community Economic …Christian Discipleship Mini…Animal Rescue and Shelter S…Food Pantries & Hunger Reli…Affordable Housing Developm…Community Development & Soc…Child Welfare and Family Se…Michigan Civic & Economic D…Performing Arts Organizatio…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%8%5–10yr17%13%10–20yr15%17%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr18%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%5%5–10yr17%12%10–20yr15%13%20–35yr13%32%35–55yr18%38%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.6%2/321
the rest of the field
14%
4,016/28,596

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.

04the grantee network

242 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. 242 of the 322 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
56
Early backer (in before they grew)
230/242
Grantees still filing
138/242
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KALAMAZOO MI — $4,276,149 · OtherYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KALAMAZOO MIHOUSING RESOURCES INC — $3,067,953 · OtherHOUSING RESOURCES INCCOMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS — $1,973,322 · OtherCOMMUNITY HEALING CENTERSSOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK — $1,965,687 · OtherSOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANKSENIOR SERVICES INC — $1,307,210 · Other+111 more — $23,541,224 · Other+111 moreCOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN — $2,327,787 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY …CATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICES — $1,755,968 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICESFAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC — $1,435,239 · Human ServicesFAMILY & CHILDREN SERVIC…VOCES — $1,288,439 · Human ServicesVOCESCHARITABLE UNION — $915,263 · Human ServicesCHARITABLE UNIONKALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S — $883,252 · Human ServicesKALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4…SAFE PLACE — $714,136 · Human ServicesDROP-IN SELF HELP CENTER INC — $673,935 · Human ServicesSouthwestern Michigan Urban League — $539,058 · Human Services+25 more — $4,478,971 · Human Services+25 moreGRYPHON PLACE — $1,465,840 · HealthGRACE HEALTH INC — $1,090,930 · HealthRISE CORP — $849,626 · HealthSPECIALIZED LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $584,026 · HealthPREVENTION WORKS INC — $439,254 · HealthDOUGLASS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION — $268,986 · HealthBronson Health Foundation — $258,400 · Health+3 more — $124,560 · HealthUrban Alliance Inc — $859,229 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC — $524,650 · PhilanthropyKALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $352,648 · PhilanthropyHEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY — $347,825 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF WEST TENNESSEINC STARKS — $255,950 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF ROME & FLOYD COUNTY INC DBA UNITED WAY OF FLOYD POLK & CHATTOOG — $218,487 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE INC — $211,185 · PhilanthropyLYCOMING COUNTY UNITED WAY INC — $162,817 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE — $150,579 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS — $129,948 · Philanthropy+11 more — $648,976 · PhilanthropyBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF KALAMAZOO INC — $1,444,687 · Youth DevelopmentNEW LEVEL SPORTS — $749,915 · Youth DevelopmentKALAMAZOO YOUTH DEVELOPMENT NETWORK — $304,171 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG KINGS AND QUEENS INC — $149,608 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LANSING — $111,933 · Youth Development+2 more — $117,526 · Youth DevelopmentKALAMAZOO REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICE AGENCY FOUNDATION — $1,141,875 · EducationWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY HOMER STRYKER MD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE — $1,021,859 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF MICHIGAN — $165,255 · EducationREAD AND WRITE KALAMAZOO — $116,931 · EducationKALAMAZOO LITERACY COUNCIL — $115,655 · Education+3 more — $172,663 · EducationGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SW MICHIGAN — $809,559 · EmploymentGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF CENTRAL MICHIGAN'S HEARTLAND INC — $802,996 · EmploymentMRC Industries Inc — $729,277 · EmploymentW E UPJOHN UNEMPLOYMENT TRUSTEE CORPORATION — $175,744 · Employment
Other$36,131,545Human Services$15,012,048Health$5,081,622Philanthropy$3,862,294Youth Development$2,877,840Education$2,734,238Employment$2,517,576

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KALAMAZOO MI — $4,276,149 over 9y, 11% of budgetHOUSING RESOURCES INC — $3,067,953 over 9y, 16% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN — $2,327,787 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS — $1,973,322 over 9y, 8.9% of budgetSOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK — $1,965,687 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetCATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICES — $1,755,968 over 9y, 12% of budgetGRYPHON PLACE — $1,465,840 over 9y, 9.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF KALAMAZOO INC — $1,444,687 over 9y, 24% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC — $1,435,239 over 9y, 4.2% of budgetSENIOR SERVICES INC — $1,307,210 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetVOCES — $1,288,439 over 9y, 41% of budgetKALAMAZOO REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICE AGENCY FOUNDATION — $1,141,875 over 4y, 55% of budgetGRACE HEALTH INC — $1,090,930 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY HOMER STRYKER MD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE — $1,021,859 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetMichigan Advocacy Program — $989,324 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetMINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY INC — $927,092 over 9y, 38% of budgetCHARITABLE UNION — $915,263 over 9y, 7.3% of budgetKALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S — $883,252 over 9y, 11% of budgetUrban Alliance Inc — $859,229 over 9y, 35% of budgetRISE CORP — $849,626 over 5y, 98% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SW MICHIGAN — $809,559 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF CENTRAL MICHIGAN'S HEARTLAND INC — $802,996 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetTRI COUNTY LABOR AGENCY FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC — $776,275 over 9y, 85% of budgetNEW LEVEL SPORTS — $749,915 over 5y, 18% of budgetMRC Industries Inc — $729,277 over 9y, 2.6% of budgetSAFE PLACE — $714,136 over 9y, 7.6% of budgetLegal Aid of Western Michigan — $679,522 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetDROP-IN SELF HELP CENTER INC — $673,935 over 9y, 25% of budgetKalamazoo Neighborhood Housing Serv — $665,063 over 9y, 6.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN — $654,490 over 9y, 9.0% of budgetGreater Kingdom International — $621,504 over 5y, 42% of budgetSPECIALIZED LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $584,026 over 8y, 13% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOMEWORKS INC — $577,277 over 9y, 11% of budgetSouthwestern Michigan Urban League — $539,058 over 9y, 25% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC — $524,650 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPORTAGE COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER INC — $515,743 over 9y, 19% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $498,607 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNEW GENESIS INC — $481,322 over 9y, 16% of budgetSOUTH COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES — $472,846 over 9y, 38% of budgetPREVENTION WORKS INC — $439,254 over 9y, 3.8% of budgetBURMESE AMERICAN INITIATIVE INC — $428,608 over 5y, 9.9% of budgetWashington Heights United Methodist Church — $419,519 over 4y, 28% of budgetTHE SYNERGY HEALTH CENTER INC — $414,943 over 8y, 42% of budgetHISPANIC AMERICAN COUNCIL INC — $365,121 over 7y, 11% of budgetKALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $352,648 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetHEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY — $347,825 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetFOSTER ADOPTIVE FAMILY RESOURCE — $344,919 over 8y, 15% of budgetROOTEAD ENRICHMENT CENTER — $336,577 over 9y, 37% of budget
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 YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KALAMAZOO MI ↗
  • Who funds HOUSING RESOURCES INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds GRYPHON PLACE ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF KALAMAZOO INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds VOCES ↗
  • Who funds KALAMAZOO REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICE AGENCY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GRACE HEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY HOMER STRYKER MD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE ↗
  • Who funds Michigan Advocacy Program ↗
  • Who funds MINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY INC ↗
  • Who funds CHARITABLE UNION ↗
  • Who funds KALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S ↗
  • Who funds Urban Alliance Inc ↗
  • Who funds RISE CORP ↗
  • Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SW MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF CENTRAL MICHIGAN'S HEARTLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds TRI COUNTY LABOR AGENCY FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW LEVEL SPORTS ↗
  • Who funds MRC Industries Inc ↗
  • Who funds SAFE PLACE ↗
  • Who funds Legal Aid of Western Michigan ↗
  • Who funds DROP-IN SELF HELP CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Kalamazoo Neighborhood Housing Serv ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds Greater Kingdom International ↗
  • Who funds SPECIALIZED LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HOMEWORKS INC ↗
  • Who funds Southwestern Michigan Urban League ↗

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.

Kalamazoo Community F…Harold and Grace Upjo…Battle Creek Communit…Irving S Gilmore Foun…The Ronda E Stryker a…Dorothy U Dalton Foun…Tyler-Little Family F…Marvin and Rosalie Ok…WK Kellogg FoundationJohn E Fetzer Institu…Consumers Energy Foun…Suzanne Upjohn Delano…
Kalamazoo Community FoundationMI159.7× affinity92 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · Battle Creek Community Foundation · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · The Ronda E Stryker and William D Johnston Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · Consumers Energy Foundation · Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish 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 South Central Michigan 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 23%
  • United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
  • United Way of Northern New Jersey Inc — 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
63report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 322 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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