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Who funds human services in Michigan

Human services funding in Michigan is unusually spread out: no single organization draws even 12%, though Bethany Christian Services leads, and the money reaches 1,735 groups.

$2.1B
granted
1,735
organizations
68%
from in-state

The short version

Largest funders of human services in Michigan

The funders giving the most to human services organizations in Michigan, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge$181M2Jewish Federation of Detroit$118M3West Michigan Partnership for Children$104M4Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$71M5Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany Inc$63M6United Way for Southeastern Michigan$55M7WK Kellogg Foundation$53M8United Jewish Foundation$49M9Alliance for Housing Oakland County Continuum of Care$42M10Jsl Foundation$39M

Human services organizations in Michigan that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

1,725 other human services organizations$1.4B
Bethany Christian Services$152MSamaritas$90M

How to find human services funders in Michigan

  1. 1
    Start with the funders already active in Michigan

    The funders giving the most to human services in Michigan are Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge, Jewish Federation of Detroit, West Michigan Partnership for Children. A funder already writing human services checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.

  2. 2
    See who funds organizations like yours

    Open the human services organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.

  3. 3
    Add the out-of-state funders reaching in

    32% of human services money in Michigan comes from funders elsewhere, so national human services funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Michigan.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a human services nonprofit in Michigan?
Start with the funders already giving to human services in Michigan, currently Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge, Jewish Federation of Detroit, West Michigan Partnership for Children. Then look at who funds the human services organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Michigan from out of state.
Who is the largest human services funder in Michigan?
Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge gives the most to human services organizations in Michigan, $181M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to human services in Michigan?
$2.1B reached 1,735 human services organizations in Michigan, from 3,161 funders. 68% came from funders also based in Michigan.
How recent is this data?
It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines
Giving abroad
which US foundations fund each country

Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.