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Urban Core Collective

To support member organizations that work to improve services to the community of color in grand rapids, michigan.

$140k
Granted FY2017
6
Grants FY2017
1
States reached
$24k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2017 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$23,700
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GRAND RAPIDS AFRICAN AMERICAN HLTH$24,000
HISPANIC CENTER OF WESTERN MICHIGAN$24,000
GRAND RAPIDS URBAN LEAGUE$23,700
FAMILY OUTREACH CENTER$23,400
UNITED METHODIST COMMUNITY HOUSE$22,500
BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER$22,500
02The need
02

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 (FY17–17, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER: $23k → 11%HISPANIC CENTER OF WESTERN MICHIGAN: $24k → 11%GRAND RAPIDS URBAN LEAGUE: $24k → 11%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 field
03the grantee network

6 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.

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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
6/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HISPANIC CENTER OF WESTERN MICHIGAN INC: $24,000 · Human ServicesHISPANIC CENTER OF WESTERN MICHIGAN INCGRAND RAPIDS URBAN LEAGUE: $23,700 · Human ServicesGRAND RAPIDS URBAN LEAGUEBAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER: $22,500 · Human ServicesBAXTER COMMUNITY CENTERFAMILY OUTREACH CENTER: $23,400 · OtherFAMILY OUTREACH CENTERUNITED METHODIST COMMUNITY HOUSE: $22,500 · OtherUNITED METHODIST COMMUNITY HOUSEAFRICAN-AMERICAN HEALTH INSTITUTE: $24,000 · HealthAFRICAN-AMERICAN HE…
Human Services$70,200Other$45,900Health$24,000

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAFRICAN-AMERICAN HEALTH INSTITUTE: $24,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetHISPANIC CENTER OF WESTERN MICHIGAN INC: $24,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS URBAN LEAGUE: $23,700 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetFAMILY OUTREACH CENTER: $23,400 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER: $22,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetUNITED METHODIST COMMUNITY HOUSE: $22,500 over 1y, 1.3% 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.

Corewell Health Group ReturnMI17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Corewell Health Group Return · The Wege Foundation · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · The Meijer Foundation · The Mercantile Bank Foundation · Frey Foundation · Feeding America West Michigan · Amazonsmile 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 Urban Core Collective funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Urban Core Collective. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    2report 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, FY20–24
    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.
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    How do I get to Urban Core Collective?

    Find your warmest path to Urban Core Collective through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 6 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2017, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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