Michigan · Public charity
United Way of the Lakeshore
Our mission is to inspire change and build thriving communities.
- $983k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 36
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 47
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $941k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $11,059
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $187,699
- Organizations funded a year
- 33 to 53
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.3M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations United Way of the Lakeshore funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionEmploymentOther
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 year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 35 | $941k | 9% |
| FY2024 | 47 | $1.2M | 13% |
| FY2023 | 46 | $1.3M | 24% |
| FY2022 | 53 | $1.4M | 21% |
| FY2021 | 34 | $1.3M | 9% |
| FY2020 | 48 | $1.6M | 42% |
| FY2019 | 36 | $1.4M | 19% |
| FY2018 | 33 | $1.4M | 9% |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Human Services$2.9MYouth Development$2.4MCrime & Legal$1.3MEducation$1.2MHousing & Shelter$702kHealth$601kPublic Safety & Disaster$579kArts & Culture$412kOther$0
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acset | $1,079,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Every Woman's Place Inc | $934,082 | 9 | 7% |
| Catholic Charities | $783,637 | 9 | n/a |
| Boys and Girls Club of the Muskegon Lakeshore | $583,031 | 9 | 8% |
| Mission for Area People | $509,712 | 9 | 25% |
| The Dollywood Foundation | $497,869 | 5 | 0% |
| Legal Aid of Western Michigan | $470,983 | 9 | 1% |
| Dolly Parton Imagination Library | $462,394 | 3 | n/a |
| Bethany Housing Ministries Inc | $460,335 | 7 | 4% |
| Child Abuse Council of Muskegon County | $459,272 | 9 | 9% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acset | $1,079,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Every Woman's Place Inc | $934,082 | 9 | 7% |
| Catholic Charities | $783,637 | 9 | n/a |
| Boys and Girls Club of the Muskegon Lakeshore | $583,031 | 9 | 8% |
| Mission for Area People | $509,712 | 9 | 25% |
| The Dollywood Foundation | $497,869 | 5 | 0% |
| Legal Aid of Western Michigan | $470,983 | 9 | 1% |
| Dolly Parton Imagination Library | $462,394 | 3 | n/a |
| Bethany Housing Ministries Inc | $460,335 | 7 | 4% |
| Child Abuse Council of Muskegon County | $459,272 | 9 | 9% |
| Community Access Line of the Lakeshore 211 | $433,103 | 8 | 14% |
| Mediation & Restorative Services | $419,837 | 9 | 17% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $400,966 | 9 | 0% |
| Truenorth Community Services | $237,285 | 8 | 0% |
| Read Muskegon | $235,234 | 9 | 9% |
| Hope Network | $202,408 | 9 | n/a |
| Michigan Works West Central | $185,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Goodwill Industries of West Michigan Inc | $182,742 | 9 | 0% |
| Salvation Army Social Services of Kent County | $178,319 | 8 | n/a |
| Youth Solutions | $170,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Agewell Services of West Michigan | $146,754 | 7 | 1% |
| Orchard View Congregational Church | $138,000 | 6 | n/a |
| The Arc Muskegon | $137,589 | 8 | 10% |
| Dolly Partons Imagination Library Gtr | $132,282 | 1 | n/a |
| Love Inc of Muskegon County | $131,682 | 9 | 4% |
| Kinexus Youth Solutions | $130,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Pathfinders of Muskegon | $128,167 | 6 | 7% |
| The Arbor Circle Corporation | $125,526 | 7 | 0% |
| United Way of Mason County | $116,792 | 9 | 3% |
| Boy Scouts of America | $104,596 | 8 | n/a |
| Communities Overcoming Violent Enco | $94,225 | 9 | 2% |
| County of Newaygo Office of Administration | $91,014 | 2 | n/a |
| Whitehall District Schools | $89,195 | 3 | n/a |
| The Hope Project Inc | $87,794 | 6 | 5% |
| Muskegon Community Health Project | $82,017 | 4 | 1% |
| Muskegon Young Mens Christian Association | $81,250 | 3 | 5% |
| Access Health | $69,536 | 1 | 5% |
| Volunteer for Dental | $69,499 | 6 | 16% |
| Hackley Life Counseling | $66,640 | 2 | 15% |
| Girl Scouts of Michigan Shore to Shore | $55,964 | 6 | 0% |
| Newaygo County Regional Educational Service Agency | $50,790 | 5 | n/a |
| Disability Network West Michigan | $50,095 | 7 | 1% |
| Fresh Coast Alliance | $36,631 | 4 | 2% |
| Newaygo County Compassion Home for the Terminally Ill | $35,265 | 5 | 3% |
| Newaygo County Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect | $33,114 | 4 | 9% |
| Channel Housing Ministries Inc | $32,500 | 4 | 3% |
| White Lake Community Education | $32,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Kids' Food Basket Inc | $23,333 | 3 | 0% |
| Step Up | $20,002 | 3 | 5% |
| Heart of West Michigan United Way | $18,361 | 3 | 0% |
| Lakeshore Region Community Development Corporation | $17,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Family Promise of Grand Rapids | $16,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Solid Rock Housing Support | $15,908 | 2 | 1% |
| West Michigan Team Inc | $15,605 | 1 | 2% |
| West Shore Educational Service District | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Feeding America West Michigan | $14,474 | 2 | 0% |
| El Centro Hispano de Oceana | $13,955 | 2 | n/a |
| Girl Scounts of America- Mi Shore | $13,943 | 2 | n/a |
| City of Muskegon | $12,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pioneer Resources | $12,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Community Foundation for Muskegon | $11,344 | 1 | n/a |
| Mecosta-Osceola Intermediate School District | $11,150 | 1 | n/a |
| Michigan College Access Network | $10,748 | 2 | 0% |
| Muskegon Area Intermediate School District | $10,556 | 1 | n/a |
| Muskegon Rescue Mission | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Oceana County Council on Aging | $9,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Life Align Inc | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| County of Muskegon | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| The Creative Child Place LLC | $7,056 | 1 | n/a |
| Mid Michigan Community Action Agency Inc | $7,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Muskegon County Catholic Education Foundation Inc | $6,549 | 1 | 1% |
| Black Wall Street Muskegon | $6,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Calhoun Intermediate School District | $5,573 | 1 | n/a |
| Ottawa Area Isd | $5,542 | 1 | n/a |
| St Francis Desales Church | $5,535 | 1 | n/a |
| Little Ones Daycare and Preschool | $5,357 | 1 | n/a |
| Oceana County Housing Commission Nonprofit Corporation | $5,200 | 1 | 1% |
| Senior Resources of West Michigan | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lebanon Lutheran Church | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Make a Difference Ministry Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Project 714 Revival Outreach | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lake Hawks in Flight Foundation Inc | $4,000 | 1 | n/a |
| HGA Non-Profit Homes Inc | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Staircase Youth Services Inc | $2,652 | 1 | 0% |
| Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired | $2,106 | 1 | 0% |
| Empowerment Network | $1,426 | 1 | 1% |
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($290k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget United Way of the Lakeshore supplied at peak.
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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 52.
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.
Community Foundation for Muskegon CountyMI85.1× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Muskegon County · Fremont Area Community Foundation · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · Muskegon Community Health Project · Consumers Energy Foundation · Mercy Health Partners · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Women's Division Chamber of Commerce · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · DTE Energy Foundation · Feeding America West Michigan · The Gerber 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.
About United Way of the Lakeshore
- How much does United Way of the Lakeshore give?
- United Way of the Lakeshore reported 36 itemized grants totaling $941,331, out of $983,030 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 53 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does United Way of the Lakeshore fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (26%), Youth Development (22%), Crime & Legal (12%).
- Who are United Way of the Lakeshore's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Acset ($1.1M), Every Woman's Place Inc ($934k), Catholic Charities ($784k).
- Does United Way of the Lakeshore fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of the Lakeshore?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Muskegon County, Fremont Area Community Foundation, Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is United Way of the Lakeshore based?
- United Way of the Lakeshore is based in MI.
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