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Charlevoix County Community Foundation

Awarding grants and scholarships.

$4.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
88
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$506k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$2.2MArts & Culture$1.3MEducation$1.3MRecreation & Sports$873kEnvironment$807kHuman Services$755kHousing & Shelter$371kYouth Development$346kOther$0
02FY2024 · 88 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 88 grants below total $3,412,644, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,001,642 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $588,998 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k20 grants · $145k
  • $10k–50k50 grants · $992k
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $1.8M
  • $250k+1 grant · $506k
$17,387
Median grant
7
States reached
$65M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Bay Area Substance Education$506,280
Womens Resource Center of No$240,380
Crooked Tree Arts Council$221,370
Beaver Island Rural Health Ce$163,966
Little Traverse Conservancy$142,895
East Jordan Schools$119,030
McLaren Northern Michigan Fdn$113,858
Charlevoix Historical Society$96,390
Charlevoix Public Library$84,940
Tip of Mitt Watershed Council$80,950
Munson Healthcare Chx Fdn$78,078
Northern Homes CDC$72,000
Charlevoix Area Humane Societ$69,410
Charlevoix Area Community Poo$65,380
Housing North$61,000
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 (FY21–24, $724k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Northern Homes CDC: $72k → 9%Womens Resource Center of No: $240k → 9%Hospice of Michigan: $8k → 14%Hospice of Michigan: $8k → 14%Womens Resource Center of No: $90k → 9%Womens Resource Center of No: $77k → 9%Northern Michigan Equine Ther: $17k → 9%Northern Michigan Equine Ther: $16k → 9%Womens Resource Center of No: $38k → 9%Northern Michigan Equine Ther: $14k → 9%Northern Homes CDC: $12k → 9%Kierstens Ride: $15k → 9%Northmen Den Youth Pantries: $12k → 9%Kierstens Ride: $8k → 9%Northwest MI Hospice Assist: $12k → 9%Good Samaritan Family Service: $19k → 9%Good Samaritan Family Service: $15k → 9%Good Samaritan Family Service: $12k → 9%Good Samaritan Family Service: $8k → 9%Northwest MI Hospice Assist: $13k → 9%Northwest MI Hospice Assist: $12k → 9%Northwest MI Hospice Assist: $9k → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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IL
MI
NY
IN
CT
CA
UT
CO
NE
MD
FL
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17M · 82 repeat orgs$653k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

82 repeat relationships: 74 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

82
38

Total granted

$17M
$553k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+9%

Still filing today

61%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & 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

  • BA
    Bay Area Substance Education Services Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $631k · revenue +20% · 69% of their budget
  • BI
    Beaver Island Rural Health Center
    3× · 2022–2024 · $525k · revenue +19%
  • WR
    Womens Resource Center of Northern Michigan Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $444k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • MC
    Midland Center for the Arts Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -50%
  • IS
    INLAND SEAS EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +97%
  • FK
    FLORIDA KEYS OUTREACH COALITION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $38k · revenue -13%
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
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…

Environment
2
Midmichigan Health Services

To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.

Health
3
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
4
Six Rivers Land Conservancy Fka Six Rivers Regional Land Conservancy

To conserve, sustain, and connect natural areas, land, and waters that make the places we live special

Environment
5
The Little Forks Conservancy Inc

To permanently protect and improve natural environments in Mid-Michigan by leading and inspiring actions that conserve vital habitats and waterways for the benefit of our entire community.

Environment
6
Leelanau Conservancy

To conserve the land, water and scenic character of leelanau county, and to provide educational programs to develop an understanding and appreciation of leelanau county's natural heritage.

Environment
7
Little Traverse Conservancy Conservation Trust

To protect scenic and natural lands in northern Michigan.

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8
Coalition to Protect Michigan Resources

The coalition to protect michigan resources's mission is to be a strong voice for the equitable co-management of michigan's fisheries, with both the great lakes and inland lakes and streams, to insure that conservation principles remain in…

Environment
9
Lake Superior Community Partnership Inc

To stimulate and sustain a vibrant regional economy by facilitating economic growth and prosperity.

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10
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

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11
Historical Society of Michigan

The Historical Society of Michigan will foster in citizens a deeper understanding of and appreciation for all Michigan history through programs and publications; preserve and promote Michigan history through conferences, publications,…

Arts & Culture
12
Legacy Land Conservancy

Safeguard southern michigan's land and water to support diverse, resilient, and thriving communities - forever

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Alden and Vada Dow Fund. 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

88 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. 88 of the 136 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
84/88
Grantees still filing
63/88
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

See: $9,058,016 · OtherSee+83 more: $4,108,954 · Other+83 moreBay Area Substance Education Services Inc: $630,875 · HealthBay Area S…Beaver Island Rural Health Center: $524,874 · HealthBeaver Isl…MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION: $185,358 · HealthMCLAREN NO…MAYO CLINIC: $115,000 · HealthMAYO CLINI…PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN: $102,443 · HealthPLANNED PA…PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE PACIFIC SOUTHWEST: $64,680 · Health+4 more: $96,000 · Health+4 moreCROOKED TREE ARTS COUNCIL INC: $298,984 · Arts & CultureGREAT LAKES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: $139,150 · Arts & CultureRaven Hill Discovery Center: $118,187 · Arts & CultureCHARLEVOIX CIRCLE OF ARTS: $76,463 · Arts & CultureFISHTOWN PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC: $75,000 · Arts & CultureGreat Lakes Center for the Arts: $71,891 · Arts & CultureMidland Center for the Arts Inc: $50,000 · Arts & CultureBEAVER ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MICHIGAN: $48,969 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $40,297 · Arts & CultureWomens Resource Center of Northern Michigan Inc: $444,455 · Human ServicesNORTHERN HOMES COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $83,500 · Human ServicesGOOD SAMARITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $53,523 · Human ServicesNORTHERN MICHIGAN EQUINE THERAPY: $47,050 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST MICHIGAN HOSPICE ASSIST: $46,019 · Human Services+3 more: $49,000 · Human ServicesLittle Traverse Conservancy Inc: $275,906 · EnvironmentTIP OF THE MITT WATERSHED COUNCIL: $153,499 · EnvironmentTOP OF MICHIGAN MOUNTAIN BIKE ASSOCIATION: $68,199 · EnvironmentINLAND SEAS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $50,000 · EnvironmentBOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN INC: $25,000 · EnvironmentBEAVER ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER: $24,515 · Environment+2 more: $27,000 · EnvironmentCHARLEVOIX AREA COMMUNITY POOL: $352,279 · Recreation & SportsCamp Daggett: $77,819 · Recreation & Sports+3 more: $31,927 · Recreation & SportsNORTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $244,465 · EducationRotary Club of Charlevoix Charities Inc: $70,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOOLS OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN INC: $27,000 · EducationThe Leelanau School: $20,000 · EducationGRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Education+3 more: $26,142 · Education
Other$13,166,970Health$1,719,230Arts & Culture$918,941Human Services$723,547Environment$624,119Recreation & Sports$462,025Education$407,607

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBay Area Substance Education Services Inc: $630,875 over 3y, 69% of budgetBeaver Island Rural Health Center: $524,874 over 3y, 20% of budgetWomens Resource Center of Northern Michigan Inc: $444,455 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetCHARLEVOIX AREA COMMUNITY POOL: $352,279 over 4y, 26% of budgetCROOKED TREE ARTS COUNCIL INC: $298,984 over 4y, 9.9% of budgetMUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS: $283,450 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetLittle Traverse Conservancy Inc: $275,906 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetCharlevoix Historical Society: $265,679 over 4y, 37% of budgetNORTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $244,465 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetMCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION: $185,358 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetCHARLEVOIX COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $162,268 over 4y, 13% of budgetTIP OF THE MITT WATERSHED COUNCIL: $153,499 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetNorthwest Michigan Rural Housing Partnership: $150,500 over 4y, 8.0% of budgetGREAT LAKES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: $139,150 over 4y, 15% of budgetCONSERVATION RESOURCE ALLIANCE: $135,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetRaven Hill Discovery Center: $118,187 over 4y, 14% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $115,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN: $102,443 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST MI HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $98,500 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetTHE MANNA FOOD PROJECT INC DBA - THE MANNA FOOD PROJECT: $92,300 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetNORTHERN HOMES COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $83,500 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetDepot-Jordan Valley Teen Center: $82,660 over 3y, 12% of budgetCamp Daggett: $77,819 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetCHARLEVOIX CIRCLE OF ARTS: $76,463 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetFISHTOWN PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC: $75,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetCHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN INC: $75,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGreat Lakes Center for the Arts: $71,891 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetRotary Club of Charlevoix Charities Inc: $70,000 over 2y, 36% of budgetTOP OF MICHIGAN MOUNTAIN BIKE ASSOCIATION: $68,199 over 3y, 35% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE PACIFIC SOUTHWEST: $64,680 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $53,523 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES WESTERN MICHIGAN: $50,050 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetMidland Center for the Arts Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINLAND SEAS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBEAVER ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MICHIGAN: $48,969 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetNORTHERN MICHIGAN EQUINE THERAPY: $47,050 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetNORTHWEST MICHIGAN HOSPICE ASSIST: $46,019 over 4y, 45% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHWE: $44,100 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetGRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $41,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTraining Wheels Childcare Center: $38,773 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetCHALLENGE MOUNTAIN OF WALLOON HILLS INC: $38,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetFLORIDA KEYS OUTREACH COALITION INC: $38,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPOWER BOOK BAGS: $35,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetPETOSKEY-HARBOR SPRINGS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $31,495 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOOLS OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN INC: $27,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetLAKE CHARLEVOIX ASSOCIATION: $26,001 over 1y, 31% 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.

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.

Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community FoundationMI83× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation · Frey Foundation · Oleson Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation · Rotary Charities of Traverse City · The Offield Family Foundation · Great Lakes Energy People Fund · Triford Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Jim and Diana Huckle Family Foundation · The Art and Mary Schmuckal Family Foundation

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 Charlevoix County Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charlevoix County Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Hartford Hospital: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 136 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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