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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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $175k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $367k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHELBY TOWNSHIP | $1,856,725 |
| TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH | $115,000 |
| SHELBY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $110,940 |
| OCEANA COUNTY HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY | $80,820 |
| THE LADDER COMMUNITY CENTER | $60,000 |
| OCEANA COUNTY SHERIFF DEPARTMENT | $22,000 |
| OCEANA COUNTY MEDICAL CARE FACILITY | $21,261 |
| PENTWATER HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $19,940 |
| TRINITY HEALTH OFFICE OF PHILANTHROPY MUSKEGON & THE LAKESHORE | $16,607 |
| BENZIE COUNTY CENTRAL SCHOOLS | $15,000 |
| NEW ERA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $13,923 |
| WALKERVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $13,650 |
| HESPERIA COMMUNITY SCHOOLS | $13,000 |
| LAKESHORE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $10,100 |
| FOUNTAIN HILL COUNSELING CENTER | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 66% of Community Foundation for Oceana County’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
27 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TLTHE LADDER COMMUNITY CENTER5× · 2021–2025 · $242k · revenue +22%
- OCOCEANA COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING3× · 2020–2024 · $80k · revenue +28%
- TMTHE MARRIAGE & FAMILY CENTER4× · 2020–2025 · $39k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- MHMERCY HEALTH LAKESHORE CAMPUS2× · 2021–2022 · $121k
- HCHART COMMUNITY PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $45k · revenue +26%
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR OCEANA COUNTY2× · 2021–2022 · $33k
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.
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.
To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.
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…
To cultivate a thriving and connected startup ecosystem in nw lower michigan.
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.
The organization's mission is to promote a healthy business climate for its members and all businesses in macomb county, michigan.
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of the Midland community through leadership, collaboration, volunteerism and charitable fundraising.
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.
Provide services for senior citizens both through the center and to those with limited resources or homebound.
Social welfare and issue advocacy
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 be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 60 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds OCEANA COUNTY HISTORICAL & GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE LADDER COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds OCEANA COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds NEW ERA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WEST CENTRAL MICHIGAN HORTICULTURAL RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds HART COMMUNITY PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE MARRIAGE & FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds TRINITY HEALTH - MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds PENTWATER HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE LAKESHORE ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE HOLLAND/ZEELAND AREA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES OVERCOMING VIOLENT ENCO ↗
- Who funds Crystal Valley Care Fund ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds TRINITY HEALTH CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds BENZIE CENTRAL SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAKESHORE CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds READ MUSKEGON ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Community Foundation for Oceana County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Foundation for Oceana County. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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