Michigan · Community foundation
Albion Community Foundation
Strengthen the greater albion area by cultivating community assets to enhance the quality of life.
- $184k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 9
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $120k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $24,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 10
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $8.3M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 22% of the organizations Albion Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 8 | $120k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $302k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $114k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $59k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $108k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $117k | 40% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $133k | 40% |
| FY2017 | 4 | $66k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of the Bohm Theatre | $475,739 | 8 | 61% |
| City of Albion | $107,146 | 6 | n/a |
| Albion Volunteer Service Organization | $70,029 | 5 | 100% |
| Kids 'N' Stuff an Interactive Experience for Kids | $57,290 | 3 | 6% |
| Innovate Albion Inc | $52,930 | 2 | 17% |
| South Michigan Food Bank | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Charitable Union | $22,150 | 3 | 0% |
| Albion Health Care Alliance | $20,250 | 3 | 3% |
| Albion District Library | $20,110 | 2 | n/a |
| Walk the Beat Albion Inc | $20,000 | 3 | n/a |
Show all 24 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of the Bohm Theatre | $475,739 | 8 | 61% |
| City of Albion | $107,146 | 6 | n/a |
| Albion Volunteer Service Organization | $70,029 | 5 | 100% |
| Kids 'N' Stuff an Interactive Experience for Kids | $57,290 | 3 | 6% |
| Innovate Albion Inc | $52,930 | 2 | 17% |
| South Michigan Food Bank | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Charitable Union | $22,150 | 3 | 0% |
| Albion Health Care Alliance | $20,250 | 3 | 3% |
| Albion District Library | $20,110 | 2 | n/a |
| Walk the Beat Albion Inc | $20,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Albion-Homer United Way | $14,710 | 1 | n/a |
| Starr Commonwealth | $12,295 | 1 | 0% |
| Safe Place | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Families First Learning Center | $9,745 | 1 | n/a |
| Play Right Sports Academy Inc | $9,240 | 1 | 9% |
| Albion First United Methodist Church | $8,677 | 1 | n/a |
| Greater Albion Chamber of Commerce | $8,400 | 1 | 5% |
| Y-Center of Battle Creek | $8,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Marshall Public Schools | $7,623 | 1 | n/a |
| Theres Enough | $6,003 | 1 | n/a |
| Act II Community Theatre | $5,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Harrington Helpers | $5,461 | 1 | n/a |
| Michigan Crossroads Council Inc Boy Scouts of America | $5,250 | 1 | 0% |
| Swingin at the Shell | $5,200 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($26k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Albion Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
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About Albion Community Foundation
- How much does Albion Community Foundation give?
- Albion Community Foundation reported 9 itemized grants totaling $119,893, out of $183,805 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Albion Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (39%), Youth Development (23%), Community Improvement (12%).
- Who are Albion Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Friends of the Bohm Theatre ($476k), City of Albion ($107k), Albion Volunteer Service Organization ($70k).
- Does Albion Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Albion Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Battle Creek Community Foundation, United Way of South Central Michigan, WK Kellogg Foundation.
- Where is Albion Community Foundation based?
- Albion Community Foundation is based in MI.
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