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Bay Area Community Foundation
The mission of bacf is to fulfill a wide array of donors' charitable wishes throughout bay and arenac counties (michigan) by building permanent endowment funds and serving as a leader for community improvement through effective grantmaking and collaboration.
- $2.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 65
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 57
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.6M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $180,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 41 to 57
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $71M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Bay Area Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsArts & CultureEnvironmentEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 64 | $1.6M | 25% |
| FY2024 | 57 | $1.1M | 21% |
| FY2023 | 41 | $645k | 56% |
| FY2022 | 55 | $1.7M | 31% |
| FY2021 | 45 | $1.2M | 18% |
| FY2020 | 53 | $1.6M | 32% |
| FY2019 | 43 | $1.5M | 35% |
| FY2018 | 48 | $884k | 73% |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Recreation & Sports$2.0MArts & Culture$1.6MEnvironment$1.4MHuman Services$1.2MEducation$819kFood & Nutrition$590kHealth$510kCommunity Improvement$503kOther$0
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio 23 | $698,175 | 9 | 28% |
| Bay Area Catholic Schools | $620,055 | 5 | n/a |
| Saginaw Basin Land Conservancy | $465,590 | 7 | 22% |
| United Way of Bay County | $370,359 | 8 | 10% |
| Dow Bay Area Family Young Men's Christian Association | $315,459 | 7 | 2% |
| State Theatre - Bay Citybay County | $297,483 | 7 | 12% |
| City of Bay City Mi | $263,416 | 4 | n/a |
| Bay-Arenac Intermediate School District | $236,251 | 6 | n/a |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Great Lakes Bay Region | $233,276 | 7 | 4% |
| Bay Area Women's Center | $232,322 | 7 | 4% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio 23 | $698,175 | 9 | 28% |
| Bay Area Catholic Schools | $620,055 | 5 | n/a |
| Saginaw Basin Land Conservancy | $465,590 | 7 | 22% |
| United Way of Bay County | $370,359 | 8 | 10% |
| Dow Bay Area Family Young Men's Christian Association | $315,459 | 7 | 2% |
| State Theatre - Bay Citybay County | $297,483 | 7 | 12% |
| City of Bay City Mi | $263,416 | 4 | n/a |
| Bay-Arenac Intermediate School District | $236,251 | 6 | n/a |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Great Lakes Bay Region | $233,276 | 7 | 4% |
| Bay Area Women's Center | $232,322 | 7 | 4% |
| Huron Pines Resource Conservation & Development Council Inc | $222,500 | 5 | 3% |
| Rescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan | $216,742 | 7 | 2% |
| Bay City in Bloom | $192,624 | 2 | 70% |
| City of Auburn | $190,425 | 5 | n/a |
| Bay County Child & Senior Citizen Center Inc | $188,927 | 8 | 4% |
| YWCA Great Lakes Bay Region | $183,285 | 7 | 26% |
| Bay Sail Inc | $181,091 | 9 | 48% |
| Fish Tales | $179,041 | 6 | 11% |
| Bay County Habitat for Humanity Inc | $175,895 | 6 | 23% |
| Friends of the Bay City State Recreation Area | $173,785 | 6 | 52% |
| Bay City Downtown Management Board and Development Authority | $161,348 | 3 | n/a |
| Great Lakes Bay Regional Trail | $152,500 | 1 | 69% |
| Arenac County Historical Society | $147,340 | 7 | 65% |
| Bay City Public Schools | $145,633 | 8 | n/a |
| Hidden Harvest | $136,055 | 3 | 1% |
| City of Au Gres | $128,112 | 5 | n/a |
| Fraser Township | $125,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Monitor Township | $108,454 | 2 | n/a |
| Toni & Trish House for the Terminally Ill | $107,850 | 4 | 6% |
| Disability Services Resource Center | $105,464 | 6 | 32% |
| Great Lakes Bay Foundation | $99,274 | 4 | 9% |
| Can Council Great Lakes Bay Region Bay County | $97,984 | 4 | 8% |
| Bay Area Chamber of Commerce Foundation | $97,543 | 6 | n/a |
| Bay City Players Inc | $96,137 | 6 | 17% |
| County of Bay | $93,110 | 5 | n/a |
| Friends of the Pinconning Community Center | $91,734 | 2 | n/a |
| Humane Society of Bay County Inc | $89,267 | 6 | 7% |
| The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation | $80,250 | 6 | 0% |
| Foster Families Navigation & Resource Center Inc | $79,946 | 3 | 6% |
| Westminster Presbyterian Church | $77,825 | 7 | n/a |
| Bay Veterans Foundation | $69,507 | 5 | 12% |
| Saginaw Bay Community Sailing Association | $59,952 | 6 | 38% |
| Arenac Community Center | $59,452 | 1 | n/a |
| Bay City Rowing Club Inc | $58,369 | 6 | n/a |
| Do-All Incorporated | $55,965 | 4 | 1% |
| Brian's House Community Group Inc | $54,357 | 3 | 11% |
| Great Lakes Dream Center | $54,084 | 2 | n/a |
| Bay Area Soccer Association | $53,500 | 1 | 14% |
| Antique Toy and Firehouse Museum | $52,146 | 3 | 7% |
| Breaking Bread Village | $49,520 | 2 | 24% |
| Society for the Restoration & Preservati of the Historic Masonic Temple | $48,283 | 4 | 14% |
| Special Olympics Michigan Inc | $46,877 | 2 | n/a |
| Bay County Emergency Food Pantry Network | $46,446 | 6 | n/a |
| Friends of the Arenac Heritage Route Authority | $45,762 | 5 | 37% |
| Bay County Historical Society | $45,685 | 6 | 4% |
| Safe Harbor Community Center | $45,089 | 2 | 7% |
| Bay County Library System | $43,445 | 3 | n/a |
| Bay Community Tennis Association | $40,939 | 3 | 24% |
| Big Brothersbig Sisters of the Great Lakes Bay Region | $40,253 | 3 | n/a |
| Hampton Charter Township | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Michigan Crossroads Council Inc Boy Scouts of America | $38,400 | 1 | 0% |
| Saginaw County Business & Education Partnership Inc | $37,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Au Gres-Sims School District | $36,850 | 4 | n/a |
| Saginaw Valley State University | $35,499 | 3 | n/a |
| Rachel Sovereign Memorial Home | $33,900 | 1 | 4% |
| Fresh Aire Samaritan Counseling Center | $33,900 | 1 | 10% |
| Saginaw Valley State University Foundation | $31,845 | 3 | 0% |
| Pinconning Area Schools | $31,327 | 3 | n/a |
| Frankenlust Township | $31,028 | 3 | n/a |
| Bay County Fair & Youth Exposition | $30,800 | 4 | 5% |
| Essexville-Hampton School | $30,541 | 3 | n/a |
| United We Go | $30,000 | 2 | 21% |
| Rayola Inc | $29,500 | 3 | 15% |
| Girl Scouts Heart of Michigan | $28,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Jefferson Project | $25,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Iron Belle Trail Fund | $25,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Kids University LLC | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Northern Bay Ambulance and Rescue Service | $24,970 | 2 | n/a |
| Northeast Michigan Arts Council | $23,591 | 2 | n/a |
| City of Pinconning Downtown Development Authority | $23,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Arenac Opportunities Inc | $22,831 | 3 | 2% |
| Little League Baseball Inc Greater Bay Little League | $22,073 | 2 | 10% |
| Legacy Center for Community Success | $22,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Interlochen Center for the Arts | $21,600 | 1 | 0% |
| Great Lakes Bay Health Centers | $20,825 | 2 | 0% |
| Phoenix Valley Recovery | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Thumb Land Convervancy | $20,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Bay County Vietnam Veterans Monument Comm | $18,785 | 1 | n/a |
| Play Learn Grow Inc | $18,750 | 1 | 1% |
| God's Little Blessings Daycare | $18,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Ready Set Grow Child Development Center of Auburn Inc | $18,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Arenac County Parks and Recreation Dept | $18,725 | 1 | n/a |
| Standish Sterling Youth Sports Organization Inc | $17,775 | 3 | n/a |
| Saginaw Valley Naval Ship Museum | $17,500 | 2 | 8% |
| Survivors of Suicide Inc | $17,394 | 2 | 3% |
| Friends of Imagination Library Bay and Arenac Counties | $17,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Arc of Bay County | $16,622 | 1 | 10% |
| The Little Forks Conservancy Inc | $16,500 | 1 | 4% |
| Underground Railroad Inc | $16,100 | 1 | 1% |
| Immanuel Lutheran Church of Bay City Michigan | $15,588 | 1 | n/a |
| Wai-Iam Inc | $15,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Reaching Our Community Kids | $15,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Montessori Childrens House of Bay City Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Alicia Clymer's Daycare | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Little Peoples Daycare Part 3 LLC | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| River Jordan Inc | $14,975 | 2 | 5% |
| Linwood Youth Organization | $14,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Pinconning Area School District | $14,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Great Lakes Bay Region | $13,682 | 1 | 2% |
| Delta College Foundation | $13,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Kind & Loving Daycare | $13,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Valley Aero Club Inc | $13,130 | 2 | n/a |
| Mid-Michigan Children's Museum | $12,898 | 1 | 2% |
| Bay Future Inc | $12,864 | 1 | 1% |
| Pheasants Forever Inc | $12,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Casey's Kids Early Learning Center | $12,000 | 1 | n/a |
| 211 Northeast Michigan | $11,934 | 1 | 2% |
| Au Gres-Sims-Whitney Fire & Rescue Authority | $11,928 | 1 | n/a |
| Pinconning Township | $11,695 | 1 | n/a |
| Sterling Area Health Center | $11,083 | 2 | 0% |
| Salvation Army | $10,700 | 1 | n/a |
| Six Rivers Land Conservancy Fka Six Rivers Regional Land Conservancy | $10,595 | 1 | 1% |
| Adoption Option Inc | $10,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Salvation Army | $10,400 | 1 | n/a |
| Hell's Half Mile Events | $10,342 | 2 | 8% |
| Pinconning United Methodist Church | $10,320 | 1 | n/a |
| The Well Outreach | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Trinity Lutheran Church | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sleep in Heavenly Peace Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Play Dates Learning and Exploring Day Care | $9,730 | 1 | n/a |
| Central Michigan District Health Department | $9,500 | 1 | n/a |
| It Takes a Village Arenac | $9,300 | 1 | n/a |
| Pinconning Arts Council | $9,080 | 1 | n/a |
| Self Love Beauty | $8,900 | 1 | n/a |
| Arenac Conservation District | $8,886 | 1 | n/a |
| Childrens Grief Center of the Great Lakes Bay Region | $8,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Hospital Hospitality House of Saginaw | $8,000 | 1 | 2% |
| McLaren Bay Medical Foundation | $7,768 | 1 | 1% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $7,755 | 1 | 0% |
| Bay Arts and Culture Commission | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Saginaw Intermediate School District | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Midland County Habitat for Humanity | $7,290 | 1 | 1% |
| Michigan Health Improvement Alliance | $7,150 | 1 | n/a |
| Trinity Episcopal Church | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Region VII Area Agency on Aging | $6,609 | 1 | 0% |
| Abc Daycare | $6,416 | 1 | n/a |
| Charter Township of Portsmouth | $6,400 | 1 | n/a |
| Jennifer Glocksine Child Care | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| New Dimensions Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 1% |
| North West Lower Michigan Synod of Evangelical Lutheran Church in Ame | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Williams Charter Township | $5,988 | 1 | n/a |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $5,755 | 1 | 0% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $5,755 | 1 | 0% |
| Midland Community Former Offfender Advocady & Rehabilitation | $5,670 | 1 | 1% |
| Gibson Township | $5,660 | 1 | n/a |
| Midland County Educational Services | $5,629 | 1 | n/a |
| Standish-Sterling Community Schools | $5,570 | 1 | n/a |
| Bay Valley Christian Church | $5,500 | 1 | n/a |
| READ Association of Saginaw County | $5,202 | 1 | 3% |
| Lions of Michigan Service Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bangor Charter Township Mi | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Michigan | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| National Association for the Advancement of Colored People | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Foster Closet of Michigan | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Bay Area Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 10 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 87 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 87.
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.
Midland Area Community FoundationMI72.1× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Midland Area Community Foundation · Saginaw Community Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Gougeon Employees Foundation · Russell H & Maxine E Smith Charitable Foundation · The Kantzler Foundation · Bierlein Companies Foundation · Wallace & Irene Bronner Family Charitable Foundation · United Way of Bay County · Frances Goll Mills Fund · Tri-Star Charitable Foundation · The Patricia and David Kepler Foundation
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.
About Bay Area Community Foundation
- How much does Bay Area Community Foundation give?
- Bay Area Community Foundation reported 65 itemized grants totaling $1,604,863, out of $2,145,226 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 41 and 57 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bay Area Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (19%), Arts & Culture (15%), Environment (13%).
- Who are Bay Area Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Studio 23 ($698k), Bay Area Catholic Schools ($620k), Saginaw Basin Land Conservancy ($466k).
- Does Bay Area Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bay Area Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Midland Area Community Foundation, Saginaw Community Foundation, Consumers Energy Foundation.
- Where is Bay Area Community Foundation based?
- Bay Area Community Foundation is based in MI.
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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 endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home