· Public charity
Women's Division Chamber of Commerce
Activities to create civic consciousness & encourage/aid community development, idea exchange, women's orgs networking and government participation.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $95k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $162k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOVE INC | $42,500 |
| AGEWELL | $30,038 |
| MUSKEGON RESCUE MISSION | $29,500 |
| MISSION FOR AREA PEOPLE | $18,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $15,500 |
| KIDS FOOD BASKET | $15,500 |
| MUSKEGON CITY PUBLIC ART | $10,000 |
| CITY HEART MINISTRIES | $8,500 |
| EVERY WOMENS PLACE | $8,500 |
| HOPE PROJECT | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| PIONEER RESOURCES | $7,900 |
| YMCA | $7,000 |
| GREATER MUSKEGON SUPPORT SERVICES | $7,000 |
| BETHANY CHURCH | $6,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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 +34% since the first grant, against -94% for those funded once.
25 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MFMISSION FOR AREA PEOPLE9× · 2017–2025 · $137k · revenue +120%
- KFKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC7× · 2018–2025 · $69k · revenue +29%
- ASAGEWELL SERVICES OF WEST MICHIGAN4× · 2017–2020 · $64k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- MCMUSKEGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $51k
- LILOVE IN ACTIONone grant, 2023 · $10k
- FCFRESH COAT ALLIANCEone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
The coalition to protect michigan resources's mission is to be a strong voice for the equitable co-management of michigan's fisheries, with both the great lakes and inland lakes and streams, to insure that conservation principles remain in…
Creating healthy communities - together
To provide a food pantry in southeast kent county, michigan serving some of the most impoverished communities in southeast kent county. to provide holistic aid to our neighbors in need, supplying them with the food and personal care items…
To minister to the physical, emotional and spirtual needs of people within the muskegon area, without regard to race, creed, color or religious affiliation.
Southwest michigan community action agency's purpose is to provide assistance to low income individuals in southwest michigan
To provide quality, recovery oriented, trauma informed, gender sensitive, age appropriate, and culturally compentent services to men, women, and children wose lives have been affected by substance abuse and/or mental illness
To promote the well-being and economic self sufficiency of individuals living with mental illness by providing job training, placement services, and other resources that enable them to gain employment in remote work settings. Through our…
Social welfare and issue advocacy
Member programs/services, economic development
Youth services
How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 54 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.
- Who funds MISSION FOR AREA PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds AGEWELL SERVICES OF WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds PIONEER RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds FRESH COAST ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WEST MICHIGAN FLIGHT ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds READ MUSKEGON ↗
- Who funds BETHANY HOUSING MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Tempting Tables ↗
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: Community Foundation for Muskegon County · United Way of the Lakeshore · Mercy Health Partners · Muskegon Community Health Project · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · Consumers Energy Foundation · Folkert Family Foundation · Feeding America West Michigan · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Women's Division Chamber of Commerce funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Women's Division Chamber of Commerce. Bigger dots raise more.
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