· Community foundation
Catholic Community Foundation of Mid-Michigan
To receive and administer funds and to operate exclusively for charitable, religious, and educational purposes for the benefit of the roman catholic diocese of saginaw, michigan and the people it serves.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 87% of CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MID-MICHIGAN’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 35 grants below total $1,437,829 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,699,337 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $261,508 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 $10k13 grants · $95k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $391k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $289k
- $250k+2 grants · $663k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BAY AREA CATHOLIC SCHOOLS | $380,055 |
| CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF SAGINAW | $283,238 |
| NOUVEL CATHOLIC CENTRAL SCHOOLS | $94,337 |
| SACRED HEARTH PARISH | $77,425 |
| ST BRIGID SCHOOL | $62,947 |
| ST DOMINIC PARISH | $54,052 |
| NOUVEL CATHOLIC CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL | $48,886 |
| HOLY SPIRIT PARISH | $43,177 |
| OUR LADY OF LAKE HURON SCHOOL | $36,457 |
| OUR LADY OF CZESTOCHOWA PARISH | $34,318 |
| NOUVEL CATHOLIC CENTRAL ELEMTARY | $31,142 |
| ST JUDE THADDEUS PARISH | $30,208 |
| SAGINAW AREA CATHOLIC SCHOOLS | $23,335 |
| ST MARY SCHOOL | $21,291 |
| ST BRIGID PARISH | $19,098 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 96% of your 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.
30 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 6 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k 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
- CDCATHOLIC DIOCESE OF SAGINAW8× · 2017–2024 · $2.2M
- BABAY AREA CATHOLIC SCHOOLS8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M
- SGSAINT GERARD SOCIETY2× · 2021–2023 · $1.2M · revenue -51% · 54% of their budget
Funded once
- HFHOLY FAMILY PARISH OF SANDUSKYone grant, 2017 · $55k
- FPFRANCISCAN POOR CLARE NUNSone grant, 2021 · $40k
- AOASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY PARISH OF MIDLANDone grant, 2023 · $16k
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.
Provision of food & shelter to the homeless and needy
Charity
Inspired by the church's social teachings, catholic charities west michigan fosters individuals and families to flourish by providing help and creating hope.
Serve all who are hungry whether needing food for body, soul or spirit.
St. vincent depaul middletown (svdm) was founded in 1980 by the sisters of mercy and the catholic diocese of norwich. svdm's mission is to provide food, shelter and basic human services to poor and homeless individuals regardless of race,…
Hold funds for furthering the charitable, educational, and social services of the catholic church of the diocese of kalamazoo, mi.
Catholic human services inc. enhances the lives of those we serve by providing hope-filled social, emotional and spiritual support to all people.
The mission of catholic charities of southwest louisiana is to be christ's merciful love to those who suffer.our mission is to be carried out by catholic people and others in fraternal goodwill pooling their resources to reach out and…
We seek to bring emergency financial assistance to people in need through assistance with rent, utilities, food, clothing, and other emergency needs in an effort to prevent homelessness.
To feed and clothe the needy
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Family Service and the most unlike its peers is East Side Soup Kitchen. 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 80 years old; the field is 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
9 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. 9 of the 44 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.
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: Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Catholic Community Foundation of Mid-Michigan 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.