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United Way of the Lakeshore

Our mission is to inspire change and build thriving communities.

$983k
Granted FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$188k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$2.9MYouth Development$2.4MCrime & Legal$1.3MEducation$1.2MHousing & Shelter$702kHealth$601kPublic Safety & Disaster$579kArts & Culture$412kOther$0
02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 36 grants below total $941,331, the rows itemized in this filing. The $983,030 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $41,699 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

  • Under $10k13 grants · $102k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $351k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $489k
$11,059
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DOLLY PARTON IMAGINATION LIBRARY$187,699
EVERY WOMANS PLACE INC$85,349
ACSET MICHIGAN WORKS$75,000
TRUE NORTH COMMUNITY SERVICES$70,652
YOUTH SOLUTIONS$70,000
MISSION FOR AREA PEOPLE$36,269
CHILD ABUSE COUNCIL$35,091
LEGAL AID OF WESTERN MI$34,550
READ MUSKEGON$32,000
MEDIATION AND RESTORATIVE SERVICES$28,618
ORCHARD VIEW SCHOOL$27,000
HOPE NETWORK$18,260
ARBOR CIRCLE$18,100
COMMUNITY ACCESS LINE OF THE LAKE S$17,602
LOVE INC$16,682
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 (FY17–25, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE HOPE PROJECT INC: $18k → 15%HOPE PROJECT: $18k → 15%HOPE PROJECT: $18k → 15%THE HOPE PROJECT INC: $14k → 15%COVE - REGION 4: $14k → 10%TRUE NORTH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $71k → 13%TRUE NORTH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $70k → 13%TRUE NORTH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $38k → 13%ARBOR CIRCLE CORP: $33k → 11%TRUE NORTH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $19k → 13%ARBOR CIRCLE: $19k → 11%TRUE NORTH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $16k → 13%ARBOR CIRCLE CORP: $18k → 11%ARBOR CIRCLE: $18k → 11%EVERY WOMANS PLACE INC: $111k → 15%ARBOR CIRCLE CORP: $15k → 11%EVERY WOMANS PLACE INC: $109k → 15%EVERY WOMANS PLACE INC: $109k → 15%EVERY WOMANS PLACE INC: $109k → 15%EVERY WOMANS PLACE INC: $109k → 15%EVERY WOMANS PLACE & WEBSTER HOUSE: $107k → 15%EVERY WOMANS PLACE INC: $107k → 15%EVERY WOMANS PLACE INC: $85k → 15%EVERY WOMANS PLACE & WEBSTER HOUSE: $73k → 15%COMMUNITY ACCESS LINE OF THE LAKESHORE: $57k → 15%COMMUNITY ACCESS LINE OF THE LAKESHORE: $57k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $134k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $118k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $35k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $24k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $18k → 15%CALL 211: $65k → 15%CALL 211: $65k → 15%CALL 211: $64k → 15%CALL 211: $61k → 15%CALL 211: $46k → 15%COMMUNITY ACCESS LINE OF THE LAKE S: $18k → 15%PATHFINDERS: $25k → 15%TEMPLE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $25k → 15%PATHFINDERS: $24k → 15%PATHFINDERS: $19k → 15%LOVE INC: $15k → 15%LOVE INC: $15k → 15%LOVE INC: $15k → 15%LOVE INC: $15k → 15%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 60 repeat orgs$509k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

60 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
34

Total granted

$11M
$485k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+14%

Still filing today

62%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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 ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterEducationYouth DevelopmentReligionOther
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

  • EW
    EVERY WOMAN'S PLACE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $934k · revenue +12%
  • BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE MUSKEGON LAKESHORE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $583k · revenue +299%
  • MF
    MISSION FOR AREA PEOPLE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $510k · revenue +120%

Funded once

  • DP
    DOLLY PARTONS IMAGINATION LIBRARY GTRgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $132k · revenue +141%
  • AH
    ACCESS HEALTHgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $70k · revenue +139%
  • LC
    LAKE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS
    one grant, 2024 · $30k
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
Muskegon County Cooperating Churches

To minister to the physical, emotional and spirtual needs of people within the muskegon area, without regard to race, creed, color or religious affiliation.

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2
Mgh Family Health Center Muskegon Family Care

Muskegon family care is a federally qualified health center with medical and dental clinics reaching out to uninsured and underinsured patients in muskegon county.

Health
3
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
4
Northwest Michigan Supportive Housing

To provide housing and case management services for the homeless and mentally ill within the community.

Human Services
5
211 Northeast Michigan

To provide Northeast Michigan with referrals and information to assist with essential needs.

Community Improvement
6
Muskegon-Oceana Community Action Partnership Inc

Through dedicated staff and community partnerships we provide services, resources, education and advocacy to improve the quality of life for all residents of muskegon and oceana counties.

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7
Housing Services of Mid Michigan

To assist people with low or moderate income to obtain safe and affordable housing

Housing & Shelter
8
Michigan Legal Services

Provide free legal assistance to indigent and low income persons

Crime & Legal
9
Midmichigan Health Services

To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.

Health
10
Michigan Community Resources

We advance the missions of michigan nonprofit organizations that serve low income individuals and communities through pro bono and low cost legal and other professional services, organizational development, and trusted guidance.

Crime & Legal
11
Michigan Center of Accountability for Republicans

Social welfare and issue advocacy

Civil Rights
12
Michigan Assoc of Community Mental Health Boards

Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid Michigan Community Action Agency Inc; the most unlike its peers is Newaygo County Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect. 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

56 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. 56 of the 99 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)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/56
Grantees still filing
41/56
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ACSET: $1,079,500 · OtherACSETCATHOLIC CHARITIES: $783,637 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIESTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION: $497,869 · OtherTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATIONDOLLY PARTON IMAGINATION LIBRARY: $462,394 · OtherDOLLY PARTON IMAGINATION LIBRARYCHILD ABUSE COUNCIL OF MUSKEGON COUNTY: $459,272 · OtherCHILD ABUSE COUNCIL OF MUSKEGON COUNTY+65 more: $3,079,998 · Other+65 moreEVERY WOMAN'S PLACE INC: $934,082 · Human ServicesEVERY WOMAN'S PLACE INCCOMMUNITY ACCESS LINE OF THE LAKESHORE 211: $433,103 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACCESS LINE OF …American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $400,966 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cro…TRUENORTH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $237,285 · Human ServicesTRUENORTH COMMUNITY SERVI…LOVE INC OF MUSKEGON COUNTY: $131,682 · Human ServicesPATHFINDERS OF MUSKEGON: $128,167 · Human ServicesTHE ARBOR CIRCLE CORPORATION: $125,526 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITIES OVERCOMING VIOLENT ENCO: $94,225 · Human Services+6 more: $151,711 · Human Services+6 moreLegal Aid of Western Michigan: $470,983 · Crime & LegalMEDIATION & RESTORATIVE SERVICES: $419,837 · Crime & LegalBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE MUSKEGON LAKESHORE: $583,031 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF MICHIGAN SHORE TO SHORE: $55,964 · Youth DevelopmentBETHANY HOUSING MINISTRIES INC: $460,335 · Housing & ShelterSTEP UP: $20,002 · Housing & Shelter+3 more: $37,608 · Housing & ShelterMISSION FOR AREA PEOPLE: $509,712 · Religion+1 more: $5,000 · ReligionREAD MUSKEGON: $235,234 · EducationDOLLY PARTONS IMAGINATION LIBRARY GTR: $132,282 · Education+2 more: $17,297 · Education
Other$6,362,670Human Services$2,636,747Crime & Legal$890,820Youth Development$638,995Housing & Shelter$517,945Religion$514,712Education$384,813

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 budgetEVERY WOMAN'S PLACE INC: $934,082 over 9y, 6.5% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE MUSKEGON LAKESHORE: $583,031 over 9y, 8.3% of budgetMISSION FOR AREA PEOPLE: $509,712 over 9y, 25% of budgetTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION: $497,869 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetLegal Aid of Western Michigan: $470,983 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetBETHANY HOUSING MINISTRIES INC: $460,335 over 7y, 4.2% of budgetCHILD ABUSE COUNCIL OF MUSKEGON COUNTY: $459,272 over 9y, 9.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACCESS LINE OF THE LAKESHORE 211: $433,103 over 8y, 14% of budgetMEDIATION & RESTORATIVE SERVICES: $419,837 over 9y, 17% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $400,966 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTRUENORTH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $237,285 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetREAD MUSKEGON: $235,234 over 9y, 9.3% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF WEST MICHIGAN INC: $182,742 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetAGEWELL SERVICES OF WEST MICHIGAN: $146,754 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetTHE ARC MUSKEGON: $137,589 over 8y, 10.0% of budgetLOVE INC OF MUSKEGON COUNTY: $131,682 over 9y, 3.8% of budgetKINEXUS YOUTH SOLUTIONS: $130,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetPATHFINDERS OF MUSKEGON: $128,167 over 6y, 6.6% of budgetTHE ARBOR CIRCLE CORPORATION: $125,526 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MASON COUNTY: $116,792 over 9y, 2.8% of budgetCOMMUNITIES OVERCOMING VIOLENT ENCO: $94,225 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetTHE HOPE PROJECT INC: $87,794 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetMUSKEGON COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT: $82,017 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMUSKEGON YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $81,250 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetACCESS HEALTH: $69,536 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetVOLUNTEER FOR DENTAL: $69,499 over 6y, 16% of budgetHACKLEY LIFE COUNSELING: $66,640 over 2y, 15% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF MICHIGAN SHORE TO SHORE: $55,964 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetDISABILITY NETWORK WEST MICHIGAN: $50,095 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetFRESH COAST ALLIANCE: $36,631 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetNEWAYGO COUNTY COMPASSION HOME FOR THE TERMINALLY ILL: $35,265 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MUSKEGON COUNTY: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEWAYGO COUNTY PREVENTION OF CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT: $33,114 over 4y, 9.4% of budgetCHANNEL HOUSING MINISTRIES INC: $32,500 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC: $23,333 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSTEP UP: $20,002 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetHEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY: $18,361 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GRAND RAPIDS: $16,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOLID ROCK HOUSING SUPPORT: $15,908 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetWEST MICHIGAN TEAM INC: $15,605 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN: $14,474 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPIONEER RESOURCES: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFremont Area Community Foundation: $11,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMICHIGAN COLLEGE ACCESS NETWORK: $10,748 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOCEANA COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $9,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMID MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuskegon County Catholic Education Foundation Inc: $6,549 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOCEANA COUNTY HOUSING COMMISSION NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $5,200 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

  • Who funds EVERY WOMAN'S PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE MUSKEGON LAKESHORE ↗
  • Who funds MISSION FOR AREA PEOPLE ↗
  • Who funds THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Legal Aid of Western Michigan ↗
  • Who funds BETHANY HOUSING MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILD ABUSE COUNCIL OF MUSKEGON COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ACCESS LINE OF THE LAKESHORE 211 ↗
  • Who funds MEDIATION & RESTORATIVE SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds TRUENORTH COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds READ MUSKEGON ↗
  • Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF WEST MICHIGAN INC ↗
  • Who funds AGEWELL SERVICES OF WEST MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds THE ARC MUSKEGON ↗
  • Who funds DOLLY PARTONS IMAGINATION LIBRARY GTR ↗
  • Who funds LOVE INC OF MUSKEGON COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds KINEXUS YOUTH SOLUTIONS ↗
  • Who funds PATHFINDERS OF MUSKEGON ↗
  • Who funds THE ARBOR CIRCLE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF MASON COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES OVERCOMING VIOLENT ENCO ↗
  • Who funds THE HOPE PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSKEGON COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds MUSKEGON YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds ACCESS HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds VOLUNTEER FOR DENTAL ↗
  • Who funds HACKLEY LIFE COUNSELING ↗

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 …Fremont Area Communit…Grand Haven Area Comm…Muskegon Community He…Consumers Energy Foun…Mercy Health PartnersMichigan Health Endow…Women's Division Cham…Grand Rapids Communit…DTE Energy FoundationFeeding America West …The Gerber Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 99 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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