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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 FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.1MHuman Services$492kRecreation & Sports$447kPublic Benefit$332kHousing & Shelter$273kCommunity Improvement$205kReligion$201kHealth$177kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 26 grants below total $457,206, the rows itemized in this filing. The $791,502 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $334,296 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $59k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $398k
$13,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $8k → 21%FRIENDS CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOP: $7k → 13%FRIENDS CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOP: $6k → 13%OASIS FAMILY RESOURCES: $37k → 13%OASIS FAMILY RESOURCES: $35k → 13%OASIS FAMILY RESOURCES: $35k → 13%OASIS FAMILY RESOURCES: $34k → 13%LOVE INC: $34k → 13%LOVE INC: $34k → 13%OASIS FAMILY RESOURCES: $25k → 13%LOVE INC: $25k → 13%CADILLAC AREA YMCA: $23k → 13%OASIS FAMILY RESOURCES: $19k → 13%OASIS FAMILY RESOURCES: $18k → 13%CADILLAC AREA YMCA: $17k → 13%CADILLAC AREA YMCA: $17k → 13%CADILLAC AREA YMCA: $15k → 13%CADILLAC AREA YMCA: $15k → 13%LOVE INC: $15k → 13%CADILLAC AREA YMCA: $15k → 13%CADILLAC AREA YMCA: $15k → 13%CADILLAC AREA YMCA: $14k → 13%CADILLAC AREA YMCA: $11k → 13%STAIRCASE YOUTH SERVICES: $10k → 13%OASIS FAMILY RESOURCES: $10k → 13%VETERANS SERVING VETERANS INC: $8k → 13%VETERANS SERVING VETERANS INC: $8k → 13%OASIS FAMILY RESOURCES: $8k → 13%VETERANS SERVING VETERANS INC: $7k → 13%LOVE INC: $6k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.2M · 29 repeat orgs$237k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
14

Total granted

$3.2M
$175k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+33%

Still filing today

69%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $421k · revenue +190%
  • CA
    CADILLAC AREA YMCA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $143k · revenue +23%
  • BS
    BOON SPORTS MANAGEMENT
    5× · 2018–2025 · $122k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • WC
    WEXFORD COUNTY
    one grant, 2021 · $35k
  • CH
    COREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGAN
    one grant, 2024 · $23k
  • MR
    MCBAIN RURAL AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -12%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Catholic Charities West Michigan

Inspired by the church's social teachings, catholic charities west michigan fosters individuals and families to flourish by providing help and creating hope.

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2
211 Northeast Michigan

To provide Northeast Michigan with referrals and information to assist with essential needs.

Community Improvement
3
Northwest Michigan Supportive Housing

To provide housing and case management services for the homeless and mentally ill within the community.

Human Services
4
Housing Services of Mid Michigan

To assist people with low or moderate income to obtain safe and affordable housing

Housing & Shelter
5
Southwest Michigan Community Action Agency

Southwest michigan community action agency's purpose is to provide assistance to low income individuals in southwest michigan

Community Improvement
6
Michigan Casa Inc

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…

Civil Rights
7
Edgewood Village Nonprofit Housing Corporation

To provide housing to low income families and senior citizens in the greater lansing michigan area.

Housing & Shelter
8
Community Action Network

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.

Human Services
9
Faith Works Michigan

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.

Human Services
10
Rochester Area Neighborhood House

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…

Human Services
11
Gw Homeless Services of Northern Michigan Inc

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.

Human Services
12
Habitat for Humanity of Michigan Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cadillac Area Habitat for Humanity; 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.
04the grantee network

31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/31
Grantees still filing
16/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION: $421,426 · OtherTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATIONCITY OF CADILLAC: $332,027 · OtherCITY OF CADILLACWEXFORD MISSAUKEE ISD: $276,936 · OtherWEXFORD MISSAUKEE ISDALLIANCE FOR ECONOMIC SUCCESS: $199,690 · OtherALLIANCE FOR ECONOMIC SUCCESSREHOBOTH REFORMED CHURCH: $172,459 · OtherREHOBOTH REFORMED CHURCHCADILLAC AREA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT: $109,336 · OtherMUNSON HEALTHCARE CADILLAC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $89,365 · OtherEagle Village Inc: $74,000 · Other+23 more: $487,807 · Other+23 moreCADILLAC AREA OASISFAMILY RESOURCE: $220,792 · Human ServicesCADILLAC AREA OAS…CADILLAC AREA YMCA: $142,680 · Human ServicesCADILLAC AREA YMC…LOVE INC OF WEXFORD AND OSCEOLA COUNTIES: $113,500 · Human ServicesLOVE INC OF WEXFO…VETERANS SERVING VETERANS INC: $23,818 · Human Services+4 more: $39,350 · Human Services+4 moreCADILLAC VIKING BOOSTERS: $290,323 · Recreation & SportsCADILLAC …NORTHERN MICHIGAN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: $118,823 · EducationMCBAIN RURAL AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationTHE AFTER 26 PROJECT INC: $19,500 · EducationBOON SPORTS MANAGEMENT: $122,217 · Youth DevelopmentPOWER BOOK BAGS: $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentHEALING PRIVATE WOUNDS: $49,270 · HealthCOREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGAN: $23,000 · HealthSTEHOUWER FREE CLINIC: $15,646 · HealthCADILLAC AREA LAND CONSERVANCY: $72,507 · Environment
Other$2,163,046Human Services$540,140Recreation & Sports$290,323Education$158,323Youth Development$129,717Health$87,916Environment$72,507

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION: $421,426 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCADILLAC VIKING BOOSTERS: $290,323 over 3y, 41% of budgetCADILLAC AREA OASISFAMILY RESOURCE: $220,792 over 9y, 3.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR ECONOMIC SUCCESS: $199,690 over 7y, 18% of budgetCADILLAC AREA YMCA: $142,680 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetBOON SPORTS MANAGEMENT: $122,217 over 5y, 15% of budgetNORTHERN MICHIGAN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: $118,823 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetLOVE INC OF WEXFORD AND OSCEOLA COUNTIES: $113,500 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetEagle Village Inc: $74,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCADILLAC AREA LAND CONSERVANCY: $72,507 over 6y, 23% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOPE: $55,483 over 5y, 18% of budgetCADILLAC AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $54,732 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetHEALING PRIVATE WOUNDS: $49,270 over 3y, 11% of budgetTHE WEXFORD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $46,500 over 2y, 20% of budgetNEW HOPE SHELTER: $27,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetVETERANS SERVING VETERANS INC: $23,818 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetCOREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGAN: $23,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUP NORTH ARTS INC: $22,217 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetMCBAIN RURAL AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetTHE AFTER 26 PROJECT INC: $19,500 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetSTEHOUWER FREE CLINIC: $15,646 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN: $13,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ORG: $12,400 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNorthwest Michigan Rural Housing Partnership: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSTAIRCASE YOUTH SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetNorthern Michigan Mountain Bike Asn: $9,450 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetPOWER BOOK BAGS: $7,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES WESTERN MICHIGAN: $7,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WEXFORD-MISSAUKEE COUNTIES: $5,469 over 1y, 18% of budget
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 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 Northwest Michigan Rural Housing Partnership ↗
  • Who funds STAIRCASE YOUTH SERVICES 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.

Rotary Club of Cadill…United Way of Wexford…Consumers Energy Foun…DTE Energy FoundationFremont Area Communit…The Winkle Family Fou…Manistee County Commu…Charlevoix County Com…Rotary Charities of T…Grand Traverse Region…Petoskey-Harbor Sprin…Feeding America West …
Rotary Club of Cadillac FoundationMI26.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 5 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Cadillac Area Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cadillac Area Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 49 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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