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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 30 grants below total $3,562,051 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,954,343 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $392,292 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 · $89k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $210k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $488k
- $250k+2 grants · $2.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OCEANA COUNTY | $2,444,709 |
| SHELBY TOWNSHIP | $330,829 |
| OCEANA COUNTY HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY | $220,719 |
| OCEANA COUNTY SHERIFF DEPARTMENT | $107,321 |
| VILLAGE OF SHELBY | $100,000 |
| THE LADDER COMMUNITY CENTER | $60,000 |
| HART PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $37,387 |
| OCEANA CONSERVATION DISTRICT | $31,399 |
| TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH | $23,258 |
| SHELBY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $19,149 |
| NEW ERA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $17,602 |
| TRINITY HEALTH OFFICE OF PHILANTHROPY MUSKEGON & THE LAKESHORE | $17,097 |
| BENZIE COUNTY CENTRAL SCHOOLS | $16,000 |
| COMMUNITIES OVERCOMING VIOLENT ENCOUNTERS | $14,712 |
| WALKERVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $12,641 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $151k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 66% of Community Foundation for Oceana 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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 7 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k 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
- TLTHE LADDER COMMUNITY CENTER4× · 2021–2024 · $182k · revenue +22%
- OCOCEANA COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING3× · 2020–2024 · $80k · revenue +28%
- THTRINITY HEALTH - MICHIGAN2× · 2023–2024 · $38k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- MHMERCY HEALTH LAKESHORE CAMPUS2× · 2021–2022 · $121k
- HCHART COMMUNITY PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2020 · $45k · revenue +24%
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR OCEANA COUNTY2× · 2021–2022 · $33k
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.
The purpose of the oceana county housing commission nonprofit corporation is to provide decent, safe, affordable, and sanitary housing opportunities for low and moderate income residents of oceana county, michigan. the oceana county…
Organized exclusively to plan, operate and coordinate programs, public and private, to promote and safeguard the independence, care, well-being, and security for senior citizens and elderly in oscoda county, 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…
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.
Through internal expertise, external partnerships, and advocacy, the area agency on aging of western michigan provides older adults, adults with disabilities, and their caregivers equitable access to services that promote independence and…
The west coast chamber exists to be a catalyst for business growth and development, a convener of leaders and influencers, and a champion for a thriving community.
To cultivate a thriving and connected startup ecosystem in nw lower michigan.
Heart of the Lakes provides technical assistance, leadership training, and strategic communication tools that help organizations thrive - from grassroots land conservancies to larger regional conservation groups. Programs such as peer…
To champion economic growth while enhancing the quality of life in otsego county and the surrounding region for its citizens
To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid Michigan Community Action Agency Inc and the most unlike its peers is Local Animal Shelter Support Inc. 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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 52 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.
- Who funds OCEANA COUNTY HISTORICAL & GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE LADDER COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds OCEANA COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds WEST CENTRAL MICHIGAN HORTICULTURAL RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ERA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HART COMMUNITY PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TRINITY HEALTH - MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE HOLLAND/ZEELAND AREA INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARRIAGE & FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE LAKESHORE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES OVERCOMING VIOLENT ENCO ↗
- Who funds Crystal Valley Care Fund ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds PENTWATER HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds Local Animal Shelter Support Inc ↗
- Who funds STONY LAKE THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
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: Community Foundation for Muskegon County · Consumers Energy Foundation · Fremont Area Community Foundation · William R Lathers Charitable Trust · Seneca Foods Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Dte Energy Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Community Foundation for Oceana 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.
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.
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