Michigan · Community foundation
Cadillac Area Community Foundation
The purpose of cacf is to provide a vehicle for donations from civic-minded citizens in order to build permanent endowments for the community from which grants are awarded to carry out the charitable wishes of the donors and to improve the quality of life for our area.
- $792k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $457k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $13,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $44,613
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $24M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Cadillac Area Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 26 | $457k | 23% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $682k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $564k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $298k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $304k | 26% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $330k | 31% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $255k | 38% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $241k | 46% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Dollywood Foundation | $421,426 | 9 | 0% |
| City of Cadillac | $332,027 | 6 | n/a |
| Cadillac Viking Boosters | $290,323 | 3 | 41% |
| Wexford Missaukee Isd | $276,936 | 8 | n/a |
| Cadillac Area Oasisfamily Resource | $220,792 | 9 | 3% |
| Alliance for Economic Success | $199,690 | 7 | 18% |
| Rehoboth Reformed Church | $172,459 | 8 | n/a |
| Cadillac Area YMCA | $142,680 | 9 | 1% |
| Boon Sports Management | $122,217 | 5 | 15% |
| Northern Michigan Christian School Association | $118,823 | 9 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Dollywood Foundation | $421,426 | 9 | 0% |
| City of Cadillac | $332,027 | 6 | n/a |
| Cadillac Viking Boosters | $290,323 | 3 | 41% |
| Wexford Missaukee Isd | $276,936 | 8 | n/a |
| Cadillac Area Oasisfamily Resource | $220,792 | 9 | 3% |
| Alliance for Economic Success | $199,690 | 7 | 18% |
| Rehoboth Reformed Church | $172,459 | 8 | n/a |
| Cadillac Area YMCA | $142,680 | 9 | 1% |
| Boon Sports Management | $122,217 | 5 | 15% |
| Northern Michigan Christian School Association | $118,823 | 9 | 1% |
| Love Inc of Wexford and Osceola Counties | $113,500 | 5 | 7% |
| Cadillac Area Public School District | $109,336 | 8 | n/a |
| Munson Healthcare Cadillac Hospital Foundation | $89,365 | 7 | n/a |
| Eagle Village Inc | $74,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Cadillac Area Land Conservancy | $72,507 | 6 | 23% |
| Community Hope | $55,483 | 5 | 18% |
| Cadillac Area Habitat for Humanity | $54,732 | 3 | 3% |
| Healing Private Wounds | $49,270 | 3 | 11% |
| The Wexford County Historical Society | $46,500 | 2 | 20% |
| Missaukee Library | $43,433 | 3 | n/a |
| Wexford County | $35,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lake City Schools | $31,057 | 2 | n/a |
| New Hope Shelter | $27,000 | 2 | 3% |
| City of Manton | $24,148 | 2 | n/a |
| Veterans Serving Veterans Inc | $23,818 | 3 | 7% |
| Friends of the Cadillac Wexford Public Library | $23,300 | 2 | n/a |
| Corewell Health Foundation West Michigan | $23,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Up North Arts Inc | $22,217 | 3 | 8% |
| McBain Rural Agricultural School Foundation | $20,000 | 1 | 10% |
| The After 26 Project Inc | $19,500 | 2 | 4% |
| Stehouwer Free Clinic | $15,646 | 2 | 9% |
| Lake City Epc | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| United Way of Northwest Michigan | $13,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of the White Pine Trail | $13,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends Christian Community Development Org | $12,400 | 2 | 1% |
| Viking Baseball Association | $12,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of Mackenzie Trail | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Northwest Michigan Rural Housing Partnership | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Staircase Youth Services Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| County of Missaukee | $9,468 | 1 | n/a |
| Northern Michigan Mountain Bike Asn | $9,450 | 1 | 8% |
| Salvation Army | $8,700 | 1 | n/a |
| New Hope Community Church | $7,750 | 1 | n/a |
| First Baptist Church | $7,550 | 1 | n/a |
| Power Book Bags | $7,500 | 1 | 2% |
| The Empowerment Plan | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities Western Michigan | $7,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Saint Ann of Cadillac | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| United Way of Wexford-Missaukee Counties | $5,469 | 1 | 18% |
Where it is load-bearing
Cadillac Area Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Rotary Club of Cadillac Foundation · United Way of Wexford-Missaukee Counties · Consumers Energy Foundation · DTE Energy Foundation · Fremont Area Community Foundation · The Winkle Family Foundation · Manistee County Community Foundation · Charlevoix County Community Foundation · Rotary Charities of Traverse City · Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation · Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation · Feeding America West Michigan
How this is measured
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About Cadillac Area Community Foundation
- How much does Cadillac Area Community Foundation give?
- Cadillac Area Community Foundation reported 26 itemized grants totaling $457,206, out of $791,502 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Cadillac Area Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (31%), Human Services (14%), Recreation & Sports (13%).
- Who are Cadillac Area Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Dollywood Foundation ($421k), City of Cadillac ($332k), Cadillac Viking Boosters ($290k).
- Does Cadillac Area Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Cadillac Area Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rotary Club of Cadillac Foundation, United Way of Wexford-Missaukee Counties, Consumers Energy Foundation.
- Where is Cadillac Area Community Foundation based?
- Cadillac Area Community Foundation is based in MI.
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