· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 26 grants below total $457,206 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $791,502 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $334,296 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $398k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION | $44,613 |
| OASIS FAMILY RESOURCES | $36,600 |
| LOVE INC | $33,500 |
| HEALING PRIVATE WOUNDS | $32,500 |
| WEXFORD MISSAUKEE ISD | $31,300 |
| BOON SPORTS MANAGEMENT | $30,600 |
| EAGLE VILLAGE | $29,500 |
| CADILLAC LAND CONSERVENCY | $24,507 |
| REHOBOTH REFORMED CHURCH | $20,997 |
| CADILLAC AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $16,116 |
| CADILLAC AREA YMCA | $15,440 |
| LAKE CITY CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH | $15,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE WHITE PINE TRAIL | $13,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN | $13,000 |
| NORTHERN MICHIGAN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $10,724 |
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 (FY17–25, $531k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
29 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 6 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k 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
THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $421k · revenue +190%- CACADILLAC AREA YMCA9× · 2017–2025 · $143k · revenue +23%
- BSBOON SPORTS MANAGEMENT5× · 2018–2025 · $122k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- WCWEXFORD COUNTYone grant, 2021 · $35k
- CHCOREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGANone grant, 2024 · $23k
- MRMCBAIN RURAL AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -12%
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.
Inspired by the church's social teachings, catholic charities west michigan fosters individuals and families to flourish by providing help and creating hope.
To provide Northeast Michigan with referrals and information to assist with essential needs.
To provide housing and case management services for the homeless and mentally ill within the community.
To assist people with low or moderate income to obtain safe and affordable housing
Southwest michigan community action agency's purpose is to provide assistance to low income individuals in southwest michigan
Michigan casa, inc. is dedicated to changing the lives of abused and neglected children by advocating for their best interests through establishing, supporting, and expanding quality casa programs throughout the state of michigan to ensure…
To provide housing to low income families and senior citizens in the greater lansing michigan area.
Community action network partners with children, youth and families from under-resourced washtenaw county michigan neighborhoods to create better futures for themselves, and improve the communities in which they live.
Provide volunteers to assist people in need (such as widows) and organizations in need (such as churches) with repairs and maintenance of homes and buildings.
Rochester area neighborhood house, inc., a nonprofit human service organization founded by communities of faith in 1968, assists our neighbors during times of hardship. we partner with the community and other social service providers to…
The mission of gw homeless services of northern michigan, inc is to provide safe, supportive shelter to individuals experiencing homelessness.the 2023 990 was for 10/1-12/31/23 due to an accounting period change.
Our mission is to assist our affiliates to increase capacity to build simple decent homes in partnership with people in need in the State of Michigan.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cadillac Area Habitat for Humanity and the most unlike its peers is Alliance for Economic Success. 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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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.
31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 49 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 THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CADILLAC VIKING BOOSTERS ↗
- Who funds CADILLAC AREA OASISFAMILY RESOURCE ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR ECONOMIC SUCCESS ↗
- Who funds CADILLAC AREA YMCA ↗
- Who funds BOON SPORTS MANAGEMENT ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN MICHIGAN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LOVE INC OF WEXFORD AND OSCEOLA COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds MUNSON HEALTHCARE CADILLAC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Eagle Village Inc ↗
- Who funds CADILLAC AREA LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOPE ↗
- Who funds CADILLAC AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds HEALING PRIVATE WOUNDS ↗
- Who funds THE WEXFORD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE SHELTER ↗
- Who funds VETERANS SERVING VETERANS INC ↗
- Who funds COREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds UP NORTH ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds MCBAIN RURAL AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE AFTER 26 PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds STEHOUWER FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ORG ↗
- Who funds STAIRCASE YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Northwest Michigan Rural Housing Partnership ↗
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: 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
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 Cadillac Area 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.