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Barry Community Foundation

The BARRY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION improves lives by bridging resources and fostering collaboration.

$3.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
38
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$1.6M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$4.0MHousing & Shelter$1.9MPhilanthropy$1.2MRecreation & Sports$989kHealth$946kArts & Culture$877kHuman Services$768kCommunity Improvement$438kOther$0
02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 38 grants below total $3,017,537, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,462,335 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $444,798 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $478k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $296k
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.2M
$17,074
Median grant
2
States reached
$64M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%DISABILITY RESOURCE CENTER OF SW MI: $8k → 12%GREEN GABLES HAVEN: $286k → 9%GREEN GABLES HAVEN: $29k → 9%HASTINGS EDUCATION ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION: $23k → 9%GREEN GABLES HAVEN: $15k → 9%GREEN GABLES HAVEN: $14k → 9%GREEN GABLES HAVEN: $12k → 9%GREEN GABLES HAVEN: $10k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.2M · 42 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against -7% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
41

Total granted

$9.2M
$841k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
-7%

Still filing today

60%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BC
    BARRY COUNTY UNITED WAY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +72% · 26% of their budget
  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BARRY COUNTY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $642k · revenue +53%
  • GG
    GREEN GABLES HAVEN
    6× · 2017–2025 · $389k · revenue +96% · 50% of their budget

Funded once

  • SV
    SERENITY VILLAGE OF BARRY COUNTY
    one grant, 2019 · $150k · revenue -78% · 43% of their budget
  • LR
    LAKESHORE RESCUE MISSIONS
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • OC
    OCEANA COUNTY HOUSING COMMISSION NONPROFIT CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +97% · 28% of their budget
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Harbor Country Chamber of Commerce

To promote business and economic development for eight towns in southwest michigan.

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2
Harbor Springs Community Food Pantry

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…

Food & Nutrition
3
Barry County Council On Aging

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.

Human Services
4
Barry Community Foundation

The barry community foundation improves lives by bridging resources and fostering collaboration.

Philanthropy
5
Barry County United Way

None

Philanthropy
6
Michigan Christian Home

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…

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7
Manistee County Community Foundation

To facilitate, promote, and serve philanthropy and permanent endowments to enhance the quality of life in manistee county.

Philanthropy
8
Kalamazoo Valley Community College Holding Company

Serve as a title holding company for the benefit of kalamazoo valley community college.

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9
Henry County Housing Development Group Inc

Provide housing, management and tenant services to low income families, senior citizens and disabled.

Housing & Shelter
10
Berrien County Council for Children

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.

—
11
Northern Homes Community Development Corporation

To create and preserve quality affordable housing options for northern michigan residents through education, development, and partnering with local communities.

Human Services
12
Michigan Legal Services

Provide free legal assistance to indigent and low income persons

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kiwanis International Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
26/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

420 E MILLS LLC: $1,650,000 · Other420 E MILLS LLCHASTINGS PUBLIC LIBRARY: $1,276,531 · OtherHASTINGS PUBLIC LIBRARYYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BARRY COUNTY: $642,101 · OtherYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BARRY COUNTYDELTON KELLOGG SCHOOLS: $517,094 · OtherDELTON KELLOGG SCHOOLSTHORNAPPLE ARTS COUNCIL OF BARRY COUNTY: $319,372 · OtherMAPLE VALLEY MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $275,558 · OtherLAKE ODESSA AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $273,465 · Other+68 more: $2,973,697 · Other+68 moreBARRY COUNTY UNITED WAY: $2,064,363 · PhilanthropyBARRY COUNTY UNITED WA…BCEC INC: $253,084 · PhilanthropyBCEC INCBARRY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $108,576 · PhilanthropyCOREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGAN: $547,116 · HealthSERENITY VILLAGE OF BARRY COUNTY: $150,000 · HealthPINE REST CHRISTIAN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES: $27,000 · Health+1 more: $5,472 · HealthGREEN GABLES HAVEN: $389,387 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN: $160,171 · Human Services+1 more: $7,500 · Human ServicesTHE WILLARD G PIERCE AND JESSIE M PIERCE FOUNDATION: $105,773 · EducationLITTLE HANDS MONTESSORI INC: $38,788 · EducationCornell University: $7,500 · EducationKELLOGG COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $6,000 · EducationOCEANA COUNTY HOUSING COMMISSION NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $100,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY BARRY COUNTY: $53,512 · Housing & ShelterFRIENDS OF THE HASTINGS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $100,000 · Arts & CultureHASTINGS BAND BOOSTERS INC: $28,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $2,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$7,927,818Philanthropy$2,426,023Health$729,588Human Services$557,058Education$158,061Housing & Shelter$153,512Arts & Culture$130,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBARRY COUNTY UNITED WAY: $2,064,363 over 9y, 26% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BARRY COUNTY: $642,101 over 9y, 5.1% of budgetCOREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGAN: $547,116 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGREEN GABLES HAVEN: $389,387 over 6y, 50% of budgetTHORNAPPLE ARTS COUNCIL OF BARRY COUNTY: $319,372 over 9y, 26% of budgetBCEC INC: $253,084 over 2y, 33% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN: $160,171 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY SUPPORT CENTER OF BARRY COUNTY: $151,950 over 3y, 10% of budgetBARRY COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $151,332 over 5y, 19% of budgetMAPLE VALLEY MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $150,964 over 2y, 84% of budgetSERENITY VILLAGE OF BARRY COUNTY: $150,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetBARRY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $108,576 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetHASTINGS EDUCATION ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION: $107,935 over 5y, 65% of budgetTHE WILLARD G PIERCE AND JESSIE M PIERCE FOUNDATION: $105,773 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetOCEANA COUNTY HOUSING COMMISSION NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $100,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HASTINGS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetJORDAN LAKE TRAIL BOARD: $91,564 over 6y, 49% of budgetCherry Street Services Foundation: $83,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetSPIRITUAL CARE CONSULTANTS OF WEST MICHIGAN INC: $77,200 over 3y, 14% of budgetLEGACY JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION: $58,127 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetGENEVIEVE AND DONALD S GILMORE FDN: $53,589 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY BARRY COUNTY: $53,512 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetMANNAS MARKET INC: $34,031 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetMIGRANT LEGAL AID INC: $31,500 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetHASTINGS BAND BOOSTERS INC: $28,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetPINE REST CHRISTIAN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES: $27,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK: $24,199 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBARRY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $20,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetBARRY COUNTY CARES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 49% of budgetTHE GROUNDTRUTH PROJECT INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBARRY COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSPROUT URBAN FARMS INC: $9,375 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCornell University: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDISABILITY RESOURCE ASSOCIATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKELLOGG COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE ON THE LAKE CENTER INC: $5,472 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetBLUE LAKE FINE ARTS CAMP: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

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.

WK Kellogg FoundationRichard B Messer FBO …Barry County United W…The Baum Family Found…Douglas A & Margaret …Consumers Energy Foun…Battle Creek Communit…Michigan College Acce…Grand Rapids Communit…Feldpausch FoundationMiller FoundationUnited Way of South C…
WK Kellogg FoundationMI20.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Barry Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Barry Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 94 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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