· Community foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $71k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLON COMMUNITY SCHOOLS | $39,155 |
| CITY OF COLDWATER | $21,755 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| COLDWATER COMMUNITY SCHOOLS | $8,000 |
| BRANCH COUNTY UNITED WAY | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
| BRANCH COUNTY COALITION AGAINST | $6,320 |
| UNION TWNSHP FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY | $5,700 |
| MICHIGAN ASSOCIATION OF RETIRED | $5,400 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BCBRANCH COUNTY COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE7× · 2017–2025 · $160k · revenue +159%
- CTColdwater Township Sunrise Rotary Foundation5× · 2017–2024 · $154k · revenue +232%
- BCBRANCH COUNTY UNITED WAY INC3× · 2020–2025 · $27k · revenue +9%
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
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.
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.
The organization's mission is to promote a healthy business climate for its members and all businesses in macomb county, michigan.
To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.
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
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
Protecting life. sharing the truth. empowering people to make healthy life choices
Channels individual, member, and corporate gifts for benefit of community.
The mission of the Center for Family Health is opening the door to health care for all.
To promote thrift and savings to approximately 2,000 credit union members who live, work, or worship in the community and surrounding areas of Richmond, MI.
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 52 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY ↗
- Who funds Family Medical Center of ↗
- Who funds PROMEDICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN ASSOCIATION OF RETIRED SCHOOL PERSONNEL ↗
- Who funds BRANCH COUNTY UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds Childrens Museum of Branch County Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF BRANCH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds TIBBITS OPERA FOUNDATION AND ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds LAKE GEORGE CONSERVANCY 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.
Open a dossier: Branch County United Way Inc · Eden Bridge Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Branch County Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Branch County Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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