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Community Foundation for Muskegon County

The mission of the COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MUSKEGON COUNTY is to build community endowment, effect positive change through grantmaking and provide leadership on key community issues, all to serve donors' desires to enhance the quality of life for the people of our region, now and for generations to come

$17M
Granted FY2024still arriving
202
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$2.6M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$17MEducation$17MPhilanthropy$9.7MHealth$6.3MReligion$4.7MYouth Development$4.3MHuman Services$3.4MEnvironment$2.2MOther$0
02FY2024 · 202 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 202 grants below total $12,435,262 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $16,724,808 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,289,546 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 $10k54 grants · $395k
  • $10k–50k98 grants · $2.1M
  • $50k–250k39 grants · $3.8M
  • $250k+11 grants · $6.2M
$16,970
Median grant
8
States reached
$251M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MUSKEGON MUSEUM OF ART$2,648,856
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE MUSKEGON LAKESHORE$440,734
FRAUENTHAL CENTER$402,460
COUNTY OF MUSKEGON$379,466
KIDS BELONG$350,000
TRINITY HEALTH MUSKEGON - OFFICE OF PHILANTHROPY$343,317
WEST MICHIGAN SYMPHONY$340,907
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MASON COUNTY$338,090
HUME HOME$327,142
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MUSKEGON COUNTY$326,747
MUSKEGON PUBLIC SCHOOLS - FINANCE DEPARTMENT$308,646
OAKTREE ACADEMY INC$200,000
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF WEST MICHIGAN$176,040
UNITED WAY OF MASON COUNTY$174,769
MUSKEGON RESCUE MISSION$166,504
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $3.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%SINGLE MOMM: $150k → 7%NORTHERN INITIATIVES: $85k → 11%NORTHERN INITIATIVES: $25k → 11%SINGLE MOMM: $50k → 7%TRI CITIES YMCA: $25k → 8%SINGLE MOMM: $36k → 7%OCEANA COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $252k → 16%OCEANA COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $59k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $39k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF WEST MICHIGAN: $32k → 11%OAKTREE ACADEMY: $224k → 10%OAKTREE ACADEMY INC: $200k → 10%HANDS EXTENDED LOVING PEOPLE (HELP): $125k → 10%SABLE POINTS LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS ASSOCIATION: $85k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF MUSKEGON: $35k → 11%LAKESHORE FOOD CLUB: $82k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF MUSKEGON: $34k → 11%BLUE HAT MINISTRIES: $77k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $30k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $29k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $28k → 11%HELP MINISTRY: $69k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF MUSKEGON: $27k → 11%LAKESHORE FOOD CLUB: $66k → 10%HELP MINISTRY: $66k → 10%LOVE INC: $64k → 15%LAKESHORE FOOD CLUB: $50k → 10%BLUE HAT MINISTRIES: $50k → 10%PIONEER RESOURCES: $33k → 15%SABLE POINTS LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS ASSOCIATIONS: $43k → 10%LOVE INC: $27k → 15%LAKESHORE FOOD CLUB: $33k → 10%SABLE POINTS LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS ASSOCIATION: $32k → 10%LAKESHORE FOOD CLUB: $25k → 10%COVE: $21k → 10%HUME HOME: $327k → 15%EVERY WOMAN'S PLACE: $47k → 15%EVERY WOMAN'S PLACE: $46k → 15%EVERY WOMAN'S PLACE: $40k → 15%EVERY WOMAN'S PLACE: $40k → 15%EVERY WOMAN'S PLACE: $29k → 15%PIONEER RESOURCES: $48k → 15%PIONEER RESOURCES: $41k → 15%PIONEER RESOURCES: $28k → 15%PIONEER RESOURCES: $21k → 15%PATHFINDERS: $44k → 15%PATHFINDERS: $35k → 15%SENIOR RESOURCES OF WEST MICHIGAN: $26k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 6% of Community Foundation for Muskegon County’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in MI; read by stated purpose it is 95% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Community Foundation for Muskegon Countylessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.8% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$64M · 255 repeat orgs$4.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

255 repeat relationships — 150 still active in FY2024, 105 since wound down; 38 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

255
150

Total granted

$64M
$3.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+13%

Still filing today

55%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther

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

  • MM
    MUSKEGON MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $7.5M · revenue +48% · 98% of their budget
  • MH
    MERCY HEALTH PARTNERS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +52%
  • BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE MUSKEGON LAKESHORE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +299% · 34% of their budget

Funded once

  • OC
    OCEANA COUNTY MEDICAL CARE FACILITY
    one grant, 2017 · $374k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $258k
  • OR
    OJENAFDELINGEN RIGSHOSPITALET DEPT OF OPHTHALMOLOGY
    one grant, 2017 · $200k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Michigan Chamber of Commerce

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

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2
Michigan Christian Home

The michigan christian home dba beacon hill at eastgate, a not-for-profit corporation, provides housing and health services in a christian environment for older adults, thus enabling them to meet their ongoing physical, social and…

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3
Mid Michigan Community Action Agency Inc

Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.

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4
Business Leaders for Michigan

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

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5
Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

Community Improvement
6
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
7
Mymichigan Medical Center Midland

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
8
Movement West Michigan

Uniting christian faith leaders to serve with humility and love for the flourishing of all in our community.

Religion
9
Midmichigan Health Services

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

Health
10
Michigan Science Center

The mission of the michigan science center is to inspire curious minds of all ages to discover, explore and appreciate science, technology, engineering and math in a creative, dynamic learning environment.

Education
11
Michigan Enviromental Council

Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.

Environment
12
Mymichigan Medical Group

Creating healthy communities - together

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fremont Area Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Mason County Sports Hall of Fame Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAdult Foster Care ServicesArts, Culture & Heritage Or…Faith-Based Community ReliefWorkforce Development & Lif…Labor Union LocalsHospital Health SystemsYouth Sports ClubsInternational Humanitarian …Muslim Community CentersReproductive Health & Advoc…Veterans and Fraternal Soci…Labor Union AdvocacyChristian Missionary Organi…Animal Shelter and RescuePrivate Recreational ClubsHospital Health SystemsChristian School SupportSenior Healthcare Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%3%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr13%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%1%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%11%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr13%38%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%8/416
the rest of the field
16%
2,386/15,004

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.

05the grantee network

257 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 257 of the 455 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
61
Early backer (in before they grew)
240/257
Grantees still filing
176/257
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MUSKEGON AREA INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL DISTRICT — $3,059,763 · OtherMUSKEGON AREA INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL DISTRICTMUSKEGON MUSEUM OF ART — $2,925,217 · OtherMUSKEGON MUSEUM OF ARTMERCY HEALTH PARTNERS — $2,716,634 · OtherMERCY HEALTH PARTNERSCITY OF WHITEHALL - HOWMET PLAYHOUSE — $2,603,394 · OtherCITY OF WHITEHALL - HOWMET PLAYHOUSEGRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY — $1,339,809 · Other+139 more — $26,843,514 · Other+139 moreMUSKEGON MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION — $7,459,543 · PhilanthropyMUSKEGON MUSEUM OF ART FOUN…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MUSKEGON COUNTY — $4,846,077 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MU…MANISTEE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $3,023,259 · PhilanthropyMANISTEE COUNTY COMMUNITY F…UNITED WAY OF MASON COUNTY — $1,137,143 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF MASON COUNTYUNITED WAY OF THE LAKESHORE — $1,049,291 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE LAKESHORE+4 more — $281,635 · PhilanthropyWEST MICHIGAN SYMPHONY — $1,689,033 · Arts & CultureMASON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $1,174,121 · Arts & CultureMUSKEGON CIVIC THEATRE — $187,278 · Arts & CultureLUDINGTON AREA ARTS COUNCIL — $179,089 · Arts & CulturePERE MARQUETTE MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION — $134,472 · Arts & CultureBLUE LAKE FINE ARTS CAMP — $129,198 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $233,897 · Arts & CultureOAKTREE ACADEMY INC — $432,500 · Human ServicesHands Extended Loving People — $331,458 · Human ServicesTHE HUME HOME OF MUSKEGON — $327,142 · Human ServicesOCEANA COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING — $310,886 · Human ServicesLAKESHORE FOOD CLUB — $290,488 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $273,753 · Human ServicesEVERY WOMAN'S PLACE INC — $255,517 · Human ServicesSINGLE MOMM — $236,000 · Human ServicesPIONEER RESOURCES — $216,240 · Human ServicesSABLE POINTS LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS ASSOCIATION — $189,277 · Human ServicesLOVE INC OF MUSKEGON COUNTY — $156,517 · Human ServicesBLUE HAT MINISTRIES INC — $127,500 · Human ServicesPATHFINDERS OF MUSKEGON — $122,068 · Human Services+3 more — $274,150 · Human ServicesLUDINGTON AREA CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $851,098 · EducationWestern Michigan Christian High School — $616,071 · EducationMuskegon County Catholic Education Foundation Inc — $417,800 · EducationREAD MUSKEGON — $397,928 · EducationWEST SHORE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $260,956 · EducationMuskegon Christian School — $227,721 · EducationCALVARY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS — $202,416 · EducationHOPE COLLEGE — $119,280 · Education+7 more — $354,769 · EducationBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE MUSKEGON LAKESHORE — $2,479,287 · Youth DevelopmentCOVENANT ACADEMIES FOUNDATION — $624,563 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF MICHIGAN SHORE TO SHORE — $303,077 · Youth DevelopmentBETHANY HOUSING MINISTRIES INC — $732,816 · Housing & ShelterSTEP UP — $482,949 · Housing & ShelterNELSON NEIGHBORHOOD IMPROVEMENT ASSOC — $126,389 · Housing & ShelterICCF COMMUNITY HOMES — $75,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$39,488,331Philanthropy$17,796,948Arts & Culture$3,727,088Human Services$3,543,496Education$3,448,039Youth Development$3,406,927Housing & Shelter$1,417,154

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMUSKEGON MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION — $7,459,543 over 7y, 98% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MUSKEGON COUNTY — $4,846,077 over 3y, 19% of budgetMANISTEE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $3,023,259 over 5y, 60% of budgetMERCY HEALTH PARTNERS — $2,716,634 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE MUSKEGON LAKESHORE — $2,479,287 over 8y, 34% of budgetWEST MICHIGAN SYMPHONY — $1,689,033 over 8y, 48% of budgetMASON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $1,174,121 over 8y, 62% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MASON COUNTY — $1,137,143 over 7y, 32% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF WEST MICHIGAN INC — $1,082,126 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetMUSKEGON YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $1,070,171 over 8y, 13% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE LAKESHORE — $1,049,291 over 8y, 9.4% of budgetMUSKEGON COUNTY MUSEUM — $949,486 over 8y, 8.0% of budgetLUDINGTON AREA CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $851,098 over 8y, 83% of budgetBETHANY HOUSING MINISTRIES INC — $732,816 over 6y, 13% of budgetMUSKEGON SPORTS COUNCIL — $685,135 over 4y, 68% of budgetCOVENANT ACADEMIES FOUNDATION — $624,563 over 5y, 30% of budgetHOSPICE OF MUSKEGON COUNTY INC D/B/A HARBOR HOSPICE — $621,427 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetWestern Michigan Christian High School — $616,071 over 8y, 6.4% of budgetARTS COUNCIL OF WHITE LAKE — $544,748 over 8y, 55% of budgetSTEP UP — $482,949 over 7y, 23% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR MUSKEGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE INC — $471,476 over 8y, 13% of budgetOAKTREE ACADEMY INC — $432,500 over 3y, 23% of budgetMuskegon County Catholic Education Foundation Inc — $417,800 over 8y, 8.9% of budgetREAD MUSKEGON — $397,928 over 8y, 24% of budgetKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC — $353,804 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetKIDS BELONG — $350,000 over 1y, 53% of budgetHands Extended Loving People — $331,458 over 8y, 34% of budgetTHE HUME HOME OF MUSKEGON — $327,142 over 1y, 28% of budgetOCEANA COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING — $310,886 over 2y, 14% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF MICHIGAN SHORE TO SHORE — $303,077 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetLand Conservancy of West Michigan — $296,795 over 7y, 4.6% of budgetLAKESHORE FOOD CLUB — $290,488 over 8y, 26% of budgetTHE ARC MUSKEGON — $275,801 over 7y, 48% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $273,753 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWEST SHORE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $260,956 over 8y, 10% of budgetEVERY WOMAN'S PLACE INC — $255,517 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetMUSKEGON LAKESHORE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION — $246,818 over 6y, 29% of budgetSINGLE MOMM — $236,000 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetAGEWELL SERVICES OF WEST MICHIGAN — $230,853 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetMuskegon Christian School — $227,721 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetHARBOR HOSPICE FOUNDATION — $222,560 over 8y, 7.2% of budgetPIONEER RESOURCES — $216,240 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetWEST MICHIGAN CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION — $213,610 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetMUSKEGON HERITAGE ASSOCIATION — $208,818 over 3y, 69% of budgetCALVARY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS — $202,416 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetLittle Traverse Conservancy Inc — $199,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION OF WEST MICHIGAN — $193,604 over 6y, 7.1% of budgetSABLE POINTS LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS ASSOCIATION — $189,277 over 7y, 16% of budget
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 MUSKEGON MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MUSKEGON COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds MANISTEE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MERCY HEALTH PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE MUSKEGON LAKESHORE ↗
  • Who funds WEST MICHIGAN SYMPHONY ↗
  • Who funds MASON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF MASON COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF WEST MICHIGAN INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSKEGON YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE LAKESHORE ↗
  • Who funds MUSKEGON COUNTY MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds LUDINGTON AREA CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BETHANY HOUSING MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSKEGON SPORTS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT ACADEMIES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF MUSKEGON COUNTY INC D/B/A HARBOR HOSPICE ↗
  • Who funds Western Michigan Christian High School ↗
  • Who funds ARTS COUNCIL OF WHITE LAKE ↗
  • Who funds STEP UP ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR MUSKEGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE INC ↗
  • Who funds OAKTREE ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds Muskegon County Catholic Education Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds READ MUSKEGON ↗
  • Who funds KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC ↗

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.

Grand Haven Area Comm…United Way of the Lak…Consumers Energy Foun…Pennies From Heaven F…The Community Foundat…Grand Rapids Communit…Frey FoundationFremont Area Communit…Muskegon Community He…Mercy Health PartnersCommunity Foundation …Michigan College Acce…
Grand Haven Area Community Foundation IncMI98.8× affinity56 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · United Way of the Lakeshore · Consumers Energy Foundation · Pennies From Heaven Foundation · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Frey Foundation · Fremont Area Community Foundation · Muskegon Community Health Project · Mercy Health Partners · Community Foundation for Oceana County · Michigan College Access Network

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 Community Foundation for Muskegon County 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    42report 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 455 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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