· Public charity
We the People MI
To organize, train, and educate communities throughout Michigan to promote racial and economic justice; facilitate relationships between community leaders from rural, suburban, and urban communities across Michigan and strengthen democratic practices.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Miigwech Inc | $300,000 |
| Michigan Voices | $150,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +247% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
MICHIGAN VOICES2× · 2023–2024 · $450k · revenue +247%- MIMIIGWECH INC2× · 2023–2024 · $450k · 29% of their budget
- 4F482 FORWARD2× · 2021–2022 · $140k · revenue +94%
Funded once
- MJMOTHERING JUSTICEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $120k · revenue +129%
- MUMICHIGAN UNITEDone grant, 2022 · $60k
- MEMICHIGAN ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE COALITIONone grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue +10%
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.
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.
To guide communities toward being more energy efficient and sustainable through our expertise, our programs, and our effect on decision makers, business leaders, and residents of michigan.
Michigan Liberation is dedicated to the leadership development of community members and creation of effective campaigns to advance racial, gender and economic justice in Michigan
Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.
To empower students in Michigan's higher education institutions to take leadership in their community and increase their participation in the democratic process. We strengthen students' voices in developing and advocating for legislation…
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
Provide affordable or free mediation services and conflict resolution trainings to support the transforming of our society into a collaborative and problem-solving one.
To improve the overall business and jobs climate in michigan
To accelerate the transition to clean transportation in michigan. we advocate for the suite of alternative fuels including biofuels, hydrogen, propane, natural gas, and electric vehicles.
To promote job retention and creation in the State of Michigan
To be a source of new ideas on how michigan's people, enterprises, and communities can succeed in the information age.
Be and create stewards for the water environment of michigan. provide high quality education for michigan's water professionals. educate and inform policy makers and the general public. promote scientifically sound environmental practices…
The michigan humanities council connects people and communities by fostering and creating quality cultural programs
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.
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 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 9 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: New Venture Fund · Tides Foundation · Promote the Vote Fund Inc · The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation · Windward Fund · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization We the People MI funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from We the People MI. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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