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Community Foundation for Oceana County
To enhance the lives of the people of oceana county by leading, promoting and channeling philanthropy to connect resources with needs.
- $3.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $2.4M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $13,923
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,856,725
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 29
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $24M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Community Foundation for Oceana County funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 22 | $2.4M | 36% |
| FY2024 | 29 | $3.6M | 24% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $2.0M | 56% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $327k | 70% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $455k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oceana County | $4,394,282 | 6 | n/a |
| Shelby Township | $2,222,554 | 5 | n/a |
| Oceana County Historical & Genealogical Society | $366,668 | 4 | 91% |
| The Ladder Community Center | $242,200 | 5 | 22% |
| Shelby Public Schools | $169,009 | 5 | n/a |
| Trinity Lutheran Church | $145,998 | 3 | n/a |
| Village of Shelby | $106,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Oceana County Council on Aging | $80,368 | 3 | 4% |
| New Era Christian School | $61,952 | 5 | 3% |
| Hart Public Schools | $55,125 | 3 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oceana County | $4,394,282 | 6 | n/a |
| Shelby Township | $2,222,554 | 5 | n/a |
| Oceana County Historical & Genealogical Society | $366,668 | 4 | 91% |
| The Ladder Community Center | $242,200 | 5 | 22% |
| Shelby Public Schools | $169,009 | 5 | n/a |
| Trinity Lutheran Church | $145,998 | 3 | n/a |
| Village of Shelby | $106,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Oceana County Council on Aging | $80,368 | 3 | 4% |
| New Era Christian School | $61,952 | 5 | 3% |
| Hart Public Schools | $55,125 | 3 | n/a |
| West Central Michigan Horticultural Research Inc | $51,880 | 2 | 5% |
| Oceana Conservation District | $48,038 | 2 | n/a |
| Hart Community Performing Arts Association | $45,142 | 1 | n/a |
| The Marriage & Family Center | $38,524 | 4 | 1% |
| Trinity Health - Michigan | $37,911 | 2 | 0% |
| Walkerville Public Schools | $35,936 | 3 | n/a |
| Oceana County Medical Care Facility | $35,811 | 2 | n/a |
| Pentwater Historical Society | $35,206 | 2 | 8% |
| United Way of the Lakeshore | $34,492 | 5 | 0% |
| Hesperia Community Schools | $25,070 | 3 | n/a |
| Communities Overcoming Violent Enco | $24,962 | 3 | 1% |
| Crystal Valley Care Fund | $21,820 | 2 | n/a |
| Community Economic Development Association of Michigan | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Trinity Health Corporation | $16,607 | 1 | 0% |
| Pentwater Public School | $15,875 | 2 | n/a |
| Love Inc | $15,017 | 2 | 3% |
| Benzie Central Schools Foundation Inc | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Shelby Area Chamber of Commerce | $13,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Village of Pentwater | $12,800 | 2 | n/a |
| United Methodist Church Centenary | $12,690 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Hart | $11,130 | 1 | n/a |
| Lakeshore Childrens Advocacy Center | $10,100 | 1 | 2% |
| Read Muskegon | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Whitehall Township | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| West Michigan Community Mental Health | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mc Smith Associates & Architectural Group | $9,744 | 1 | n/a |
| Local Animal Shelter Support Inc | $9,389 | 1 | n/a |
| Stony Lake Therapeutic Riding Center | $9,300 | 1 | n/a |
| Golden Township | $8,215 | 1 | n/a |
| Disability Network West Michigan | $7,895 | 1 | 1% |
| Claybanks Township | $7,343 | 1 | n/a |
| Mid Michigan Community Action Agency Inc | $6,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Magnum K9 | $6,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Pentwater Township Library | $5,909 | 1 | n/a |
| Feeding America West Michigan | $5,800 | 1 | 0% |
| Mental Health Foundation of West Michigan | $5,375 | 1 | 0% |
| St Michael Church | $5,308 | 1 | n/a |
| Dhd #10 | $5,302 | 1 | n/a |
| Shelby Area District Library | $5,130 | 1 | n/a |
| Oceana County Economic Alliance | $5,100 | 1 | 5% |
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($237k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Community Foundation for Oceana County supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About Community Foundation for Oceana County
- How much does Community Foundation for Oceana County give?
- Community Foundation for Oceana County reported 22 itemized grants totaling $2,429,268, out of $2,982,831 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 29 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Community Foundation for Oceana County fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (68%), Arts & Culture (6%), Membership Benefit (5%).
- Who are Community Foundation for Oceana County's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Oceana County ($4.4M), Shelby Township ($2.2M), Oceana County Historical & Genealogical Society ($367k).
- Does Community Foundation for Oceana County fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Community Foundation for Oceana County?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Muskegon County, Consumers Energy Foundation, Fremont Area Community Foundation.
- Where is Community Foundation for Oceana County based?
- Community Foundation for Oceana County is based in MI.
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