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Barry Community Foundation
The BARRY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION improves lives by bridging resources and fostering collaboration.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 38 grants below total $3,017,537 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,462,335 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $444,798 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $478k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $296k
- $250k+3 grants · $2.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 420 E MILLS LLC | $1,650,000 |
| GREEN GABLES HAVEN | $285,806 |
| BARRY COUNTY UNITED WAY | $253,637 |
| BARRY COUNTY JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION | $136,000 |
| MAPLE VALLEY MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $101,474 |
| YMCA OF BARRY COUNTY | $58,132 |
| THORNAPPLE MANOR | $45,000 |
| LAKE ODESSA AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $37,823 |
| THORNAPPLE ARTS COUNCIL OF BARRY COUNTY | $35,356 |
| PITSCH COMPANIES | $30,000 |
| VILLAGE OF MIDDLEVILLE | $25,000 |
| DELTON AREA ROTARY CLUB | $24,750 |
| DELTON KELLOGG HIGH SCHOOL | $24,099 |
| COREWELL HEALTH (PENNOCK) FOUNDATION | $21,766 |
| HASTINGS EDUCATION ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION | $20,276 |
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 (FY17–25, $397k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +35% since the first grant, against -7% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 10 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, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M 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
- BCBARRY COUNTY UNITED WAY9× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +72% · 26% of their budget
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BARRY COUNTY9× · 2017–2025 · $642k · revenue +219%
- GGGREEN GABLES HAVEN6× · 2017–2025 · $389k · revenue +96% · 50% of their budget
Funded once
- SVSERENITY VILLAGE OF BARRY COUNTYone grant, 2019 · $150k · revenue -78% · 43% of their budget
- LRLAKESHORE RESCUE MISSIONSone grant, 2024 · $100k
- OCOCEANA COUNTY HOUSING COMMISSION NONPROFIT CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +97% · 28% of their budget
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 promote business and economic development for eight towns in southwest michigan.
To provide compassionate in-home skilled nursing care and supportive resources for those affected by cancer and related illnesses in southwest michigan.
The barry county council on aging provides various programs to help senior citizens live independently in their own home. this ia accomplished by offering homemaker services, personal care services, respite care and medical alert systems.
The michigan christian home dba beacon hill at eastgate, a not-for-profit corporation, provides housing and health services in a christian environment for older adults, thus enabling them to meet their ongoing physical, social and…
The mission of barclay college is to prepare students in a bible-centered environment for effective christian life, service, and leadership.
To connect the power of the people who care with causes and organizations that strengthen our communities.
To advance the commercial, industrial, and civic interests of the village of barnesville and the surrounding communities.
The mission of the children's advocacy center of southwest michigan is to support children through a coordinated response to child abuse and neglect that includes prevention, assessment and intervention.
Channels individual, member, and corporate gifts for benefit of community.
To generate funds equitablely from barley producers for the establishment of market development, public relations, promotion and research to benefit barley producers.
To alleviate hunger and enhance the well-being of our community by providing nutritious food and support to individuals and families in need. we are dedicated to fostering a more equitable and connected community through compassionate…
To facilitate, promote, and serve philanthropy and permanent endowments to enhance the quality of life in manistee county.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Barry Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Kellogg Community College End. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 94 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 BARRY COUNTY UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BARRY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds GREEN GABLES HAVEN ↗
- Who funds THORNAPPLE ARTS COUNCIL OF BARRY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BCEC INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER OF BARRY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BARRY COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds MAPLE VALLEY MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SERENITY VILLAGE OF BARRY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BARRY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HASTINGS EDUCATION ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WILLARD G PIERCE AND JESSIE M PIERCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OCEANA COUNTY HOUSING COMMISSION NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HASTINGS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds JORDAN LAKE TRAIL BOARD ↗
- Who funds Cherry Street Services Foundation ↗
- Who funds SPIRITUAL CARE CONSULTANTS OF WEST MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds LEGACY JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GENEVIEVE AND DONALD S GILMORE FDN ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY BARRY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LITTLE HANDS MONTESSORI INC ↗
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: WK Kellogg Foundation · Richard B Messer FBO Pennock Hospital · Barry County United Way · The Baum Family Foundation · Douglas A & Margaret E DeCamp Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Battle Creek Community Foundation · Michigan College Access Network · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Feldpausch Foundation · Miller Foundation · United Way of South Central Michigan
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 Barry 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.