· Public charity
Great Lakes Community Action Partnership
The mission of GREAT LAKES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $2,665,477 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $8,808,857 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $6,143,380 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $31k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $252k
- $250k+3 grants · $2.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LUCAS COUNTY | $1,329,917 |
| WEST VIRGINIA COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIPS INC | $537,996 |
| INDIANA COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION INC | $515,011 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION KENTUCKY INC | $124,117 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF TOLEDO INC | $67,056 |
| MIDWEST ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INCORPORATED | $60,671 |
| WAY FINDERS OHIO INC | $30,709 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $262k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
17 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- ICINDIANA COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +291%
- WVWEST VIRGINIA COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSH7× · 2017–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +106%
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION KENTUCKY INC7× · 2017–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +60%
Funded once
- WCWISCONSIN COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM ASSOCIATION INCORPORATEDgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $222k · revenue +658% · 25% of their budget
- COCENTER OF HOPE FAMILY SERVICESgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $141k · revenue +155%
- VSVANGUARD SENTENEL CAREER & TECHNOLOGY CENTERone grant, 2023 · $133k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provide resources for low income clients.
To Develop and Provide resources for the purpose of assisting Low-Income Individuals through a variety of programs in Benton, Fountain, Montgomery, Parke, Vermillion, And Warren Counties in Indiana.
Agency provides community assistance to low income families and individuals including assistance with utility bills, home weatherization, emergency housing
Provide training to the ohio community action agencies.
Operate programs to assist low and moderate income individuals and families.
Administers grants and contracts to help the lives of those individuals who fall below the poverty level.
This organization runs both federal and state programs which focus on improving the lives of low income recipients.
Providing low income individuals home energy assistance and providing emergency assitance as needed
To advocate and educate on behalf of our members to increase the quality and supply of affordable housing in the state of ohio, and to provide our members with current legislative awareness, a forum for voicing legislative and programmatic…
To provide education and assistance to low income, disadvantaged individuals and children.
Housing Opportunities DBA CoAction works to resolve and prevent homelessness in our communities by providing emergency housing, permanent supportive housing, affordable rentals, rental assistance, housing counseling, street outreach…
To provide training and technical assistance to community action agencies so that they have the capacity to participate in affordable housing and economic development projects in communities throughout illinois. icadc strengthens…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Midwest Assistance Program Inc and the most unlike its peers is Four County Young At Heart. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds INDIANA COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSH ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds WAYFINDERS OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCIES ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION OF OTTAWA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CENTER OF HOPE FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds OTTAWA COUNTY TRANSITIONAL HOUSING ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HOUSING OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds Liberty Center of Sandusky County ↗
- Who funds FOUR COUNTY YOUNG AT HEART ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Oneohio Recovery Foundation Inc · Toledo Community Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Great Lakes Community Action Partnership funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.