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Branch County Community Foundation
We promote and inspire community generosity and giving, by bringing together passionate people and resources in our collective efforts to make an enduring difference in the community we love.
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 11 grants below total $138,206 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $373,567 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $235,361 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 $10k7 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLON COMMUNITY SCHOOLS | $48,818 |
| COLDWATER TOWNSHIP SUNRISE ROTARY | $15,000 |
| BRANCH INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL DISTRICT | $14,000 |
| BETHEL GLEAD COMMUNITY CHURCH | $12,000 |
| RANDOLPH ROSE COLLECTION INC | $9,500 |
| MICHIGAN ASSOCIATION OF RETIRED | $8,000 |
| UNION CITY COMMUNITY CHORALE | $7,815 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF BRANCH COUNTY | $7,000 |
| QUINCY COMMUNITY SCHOOLS | $5,739 |
| COLDWATER COMMUNITY SCHOOLS | $5,234 |
| BRANCH COUNTY UNITED WAY | $5,100 |
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 (FY18–19, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +53% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 9 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
- BCBRANCH COUNTY COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE6× · 2017–2022 · $154k · revenue +179%
- CTColdwater Township Sunrise Rotary Foundation5× · 2017–2024 · $154k · revenue +232%
- CMChildrens Museum of Branch County Inc4× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- CUCOMMUNITY UNLIMITED INCone grant, 2017 · $55k · revenue +3%
- TCThe Coldwater Lake Association Incone grant, 2023 · $46k
- CNColdwater Noon Foundation Incone grant, 2019 · $44k · revenue +25% · 42% 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.
The organization's mission is to promote a healthy business climate for its members and all businesses in macomb county, michigan.
Community financial credit union is a state chartered, not-for-profit, full-service financial institution owned and governed by its membership. at community financial, we are committed to our members and our communities,for over 70 years.…
Promote volunteer service to the Coldwater community
To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.
A social club engaged in philanthropic and public service projects in the Coldwater MI area
Our mission is to provide necessary, compassionate healthcare to people in our community.
To protect and restore central michigan's land, water, and wildlife resources to improve the quality of life for all.
Receive and Administer funds for the public welfare of the people of Huron County, Michigan
The mission of the Center for Family Health is opening the door to health care for all.
Channels individual, member, and corporate gifts for benefit of community.
Protecting life. sharing the truth. empowering people to make healthy life choices
To operate a network of food pantries to provide food to those in need.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Branch County Coalition Against Domestic Violence and the most unlike its peers is Coldwater Township Sunrise Rotary Foundation. 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 34 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 50 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 BRANCH COUNTY COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds Coldwater Township Sunrise Rotary Foundation ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds The Coldwater Lake Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Coldwater Noon Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PROMEDICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY ↗
- Who funds Family Medical Center of ↗
- Who funds Childrens Museum of Branch County Inc ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN ASSOCIATION OF RETIRED SCHOOL PERSONNEL ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF BRANCH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BRANCH COUNTY UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds TIBBITS OPERA FOUNDATION AND ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds LAKE GEORGE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Coach Eby Youth & Family Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Beginnings Care for Life Center ↗
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: Branch County United Way Inc · Eden Bridge Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Branch County 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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