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Van Buren County United Way Inc

To improve people's lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities and inspiring and mobilizing van buren county residents to action through community engagement and vision and to support non-profit human service

$95k
Granted FY2018
7
Itemized grants FY2018
7
Organizations funded FY2018
43%
First-time grantees FY2018
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Itemized, FY2018
$81k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2018
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2018
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 7
FY2017 to FY2018
States reached, FY2018
1
Total assets, FY2018
$302k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2018, 43% of the organizations Van Buren County United Way Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20187$81k43%
FY20176$105kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Human Services$75kCrime & Legal$61kHealth$43kPublic Benefit$8k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
United Christian Services of Eastern Van Buren County$40,0002n/a
Domestic Violence Coalition Inc$39,154212%
Vbc Community Mental Health Authority$23,3861n/a
Legal Aid of Western Michigan$21,56020%
Van Buren Cass County District Health$19,2001n/a
Disability Network Southwest Michigan$19,12320%
Senior Srvices of Van Buren County$10,0001n/a
Van Buren United Civic Organization$7,5001n/a
The Avenue Family Network Inc$6,00010%

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.

United Way of Southwest MichiganMI17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Southwest 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.

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How do I get to Van Buren County United Way Inc?

Find your warmest path to Van Buren County United Way Inc 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.

About Van Buren County United Way Inc

How much does Van Buren County United Way Inc give?
Van Buren County United Way Inc reported 7 itemized grants totaling $81,000, out of $95,133 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2018 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.
What does Van Buren County United Way Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2018, its largest causes are Human Services (40%), Crime & Legal (33%), Health (23%).
Who are Van Buren County United Way Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2018: United Christian Services of Eastern Van Buren County ($40k), Domestic Violence Coalition Inc ($39k), Vbc Community Mental Health Authority ($23k).
Does Van Buren County United Way Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2018, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Van Buren County United Way Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Southwest Michigan, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Van Buren County United Way Inc based?
Van Buren County United Way Inc is based in MI.

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 9 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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