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Albion Community Foundation
Strengthen the greater albion area by cultivating community assets to enhance the quality of life.
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 9 grants below total $119,893 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $183,805 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $63,912 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
- Under $10k4 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $91k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KIDS N STUFF | $24,500 |
| CITY OF ALBION | $23,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE BOHM THEATRE | $18,900 |
| DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY | $14,745 |
| SOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| FAMILIES FIRST LEARNING CENTER | $9,745 |
| ALBION HEALTH CARE ALLIANCE | $7,750 |
| THERE'S ENOUGH | $6,003 |
| MICHIGAN CROSSROADS COUNCIL | $5,250 |
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 (FY17–22, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- FOFRIENDS OF THE BOHM THEATRE8× · 2017–2024 · $476k · revenue +92% · 61% of their budget
- K'KIDS 'N' STUFF AN INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE FOR KIDS3× · 2022–2024 · $57k · revenue +70%
- IAInnovate Albion Inc2× · 2022–2023 · $53k · revenue +314%
Funded once
- CCCALHOUN COUNTY LAND BANK AUTHORITYone grant, 2019 · $21k
- AUALBION-HOMER UNITED WAYone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +13%
STARR COMMONWEALTHone grant, 2018 · $12k · revenue -63%
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.
To combat community deterioration in the downtown business district of the city of albion, michigan and surrounding areas by using all effective means.
Strengthen the greater albion area by cultivating community assets to enhance the quality of life.
To provide a safe, fun place where youth are inspired to make healthy, responsible choices.
Annual Agricultural Fair.
Programs for local youth
To foster greater regional economic success, community prosperity, and improved quality of life by advocating for, and supporting, the Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti business community.
The mission of the albany area chamber of commerce is to advocate for business success through leadership and economic development for the albany area.
The mission of the akron-canton regional foodbank is to lead a collaborative network that empowers people to experience healthy and hunger-free lives. we distribute food to feed people and we advocate, engage and convene our community in…
To faciliatate and collaborate on programs that support a thriving community and economic growth in bay county and the great lakes bay region.
The formation of an alliance between educators and business leaders to prepare students and community members to become a productive part of an effective workforce with the skills employers need by promoting business leadership and…
The battle creek area association of realtors (bcaar) empowers realtors and partners by enhancing the proficiency of our members, enforcing ethical standards, and fostering cooperation within our industry, so we can serve our community by…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Albion Health Care Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Starr Commonwealth. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 8% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
16 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. 16 of the 28 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 FRIENDS OF THE BOHM THEATRE ↗
- Who funds Albion Volunteer Service Organization ↗
- Who funds KIDS 'N' STUFF AN INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds Innovate Albion Inc ↗
- Who funds ALBION COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CHARITABLE UNION ↗
- Who funds ALBION HEALTH CARE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds BATTLE CREEK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALBION-HOMER UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds STARR COMMONWEALTH ↗
- Who funds SAFE PLACE ↗
- Who funds PLAY RIGHT SPORTS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER ALBION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds Y-CENTER OF BATTLE CREEK ↗
- Who funds Michigan Crossroads Council Inc Boy Scouts of America ↗
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: Battle Creek Community Foundation · United Way of South Central Michigan · WK Kellogg Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · William and Karen Dobbins Family Foundation · Cronin Foundation · Feldpausch Foundation · Miller Foundation · Santo Maria Frank & John Zanetti Foundation · Guido a Binda and Elizabeth H Binda Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
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 Albion Community Foundation 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.
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